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Spicy Ketchup

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Spicy Ketchup doesn’t have the red color of commercial ketchup and it doesn’t have the nasty additives either.

This recipe is safe for someone on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, GAPS or modified paleo diet.

Ketchup is easy to make at home. Homemade ketchup is cheaper and better quality than commercial brands. Once you make homemade ketchup, it’s very hard to go back to commercial brands. One warning, this recipe will not have the standard red color of commercial ketchup.

2T organic extra virgin olive oil
1 organic onion, chopped
2 organic garlic cloves, minced
1tsp sea salt
2L home-canned tomatoes or garden fresh tomatoes
1tsp organic cinnamon, freshly ground
1tsp organic allspice, freshly ground
1tsp organic cloves, freshly ground
1tsp organic black pepper, freshly ground
2 organic bay leaves
1/2c Fruity HP Sauce
3-4T local raw honey
6T organic cider vinegar or 6T live culture juice from whey, kimchi or sour kraut (optional)

In a sauce pan, saut? the onions and sea salt until translucent in the olive oil. Add the garlic, tomatoes and spices. Simmer without a lid for 1-2 hours to thicken the sauce. Let the sauce cool and remove the bay leaves. Add the Fruity HP Sauce and honey. Puree in a food processor or a Vita-mix machine until very smooth. Add the cider vinegar. Pour into two, 1L mason jars and store in the fridge.

If you want to lacto-ferment your ketchup, don’t add the cider vinegar. Stir in about three tablespoons of live culture juice from whey, kimchi or sour kraut into each jar. Make sure the ketchup is cooled before adding the culture or the heat will kill the culture. Let the ketchup sit at room temperature to 1-2 days until the ketchup gets bubbling. Stir again and refrigerate. The fermented ketchup will last longer in the fridge and be a source of probiotics.

Try custom mixing Spicy Ketchup, Fruity HP Sauce, Easy Worcestershire Sauce and cider vinegar for an almost unlimited variety of quick and tasty sauces.

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If you have a enamel cast iron pot use it for cooking acidic foods like tomatoes.

 

Fruity HP Sauce

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HP Sauce can be made with Easy Worcestershire Sauce. This version is sweeter and more like a Fruity HP Sauce.

This recipe is a simplified version of Authentic Homemade HP Brown Sauce. Since I haven’t eaten commercial HP Sauce in many years, I can’t offer an opinion on if this sauce tastes like the original.

This recipe is safe for someone on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, GAPS or modified paleo diet.

1c boiling water
14 dried garden Roma tomatoes
8 organic Medjool dates, pitted
10 organic dried prunes
1/4c-1/2c tamarind paste
2T organic extra virgin olive oil
3 organic onions, chopped
5 organic apples, chopped
3 organic garlic cloves, minced
1/4c-1/2c reserved fruit water
1/2tsp of each freshly ground: organic cloves, black peppercorn, cardamon, brown mustard seed, cinnamon, and allspice
1/4c organic blackstrap molasses
1/2c-3/4c organic cider vinegar
1/4c-1/2c Red Boat fish sauce
1/4c-1/2c Easy Worcestershire Sauce
Put the dried tomatoes, dates, prunes and tamarind paste in a bowl. Pour the boiling water over the fruit and cover. Let cool for about 20-30 minutes. Reserve the fruit water for later use.

In a large sauce pan saut? the onions in the olive oil until translucent. Add the apples and garlic and simmer for 20 minutes until apples are very soft. If needed, add some of the reserved fruit water to avoid sticking. Remove from heat and add the freshly ground spices and stir well.

In a Vita-mix machine puree the soaked dried fruit. Add the cooked apple mixture and blend until very smooth. Add the molasses and half of the vinegar, fish sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Mix very well. Add an extra 1/4c tamarind, 1/4c cider vinegar, 1/4c fish sauce and 1/4c Easy Worcestershire Sauce if you want a less sweet, darker, and thicker sauce. This recipe makes about 2L of sauce. You can add the extra ingredients to one of the liters and see which sauce you like better — sweet or savory.

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Adjust the tamarind, cider vinegar, fish sauce and Easy Worcestershire Sauce to taste. It’s hard to see in the photo, but this HP Sauce is darker and thicker.