Do you have extra tomatoes and dont know what to do with them? Try making ketchup. It only takes a few pantry ingredients to make this recipe. It is simple but so delicious served with air-fried French fries!

Our family needs ketchup whenever we make French fries. I dug threes kinds of potatoes from our garden today and made fries in the air fryer. They were so good served with this ketchup.

I will freeze whole tomatoes as they get ripe if I dont have time to do them. After they have thawed some of the clear liquid can be poured off. This will make a thicker juice and you will not have to cook the ketchup as long.

Preserving Food–Ketchup, THM FP, SF, GF

• 15 pounds tomatoes
• 2 large sweet onions
• 2 cup white vinegar
• 1 cup THM Gentle Sweet
• 2 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon mineral salt
• 1/4 teaspoon Ceylon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cloves
• 1/4 teaspoons cayenne pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
• 18-ounces tomato paste
• 10 pint jars with lids and rings
• Making the ketchup: Wash and core the tomatoes. Blend the tomatoes, onions, and vinegar together until smooth. I do it in 4 batches in my Vitamix Blender. Blend the tomatoes for 2 minutes. Pour blended tomatoes into a 12-quart stockpot. Add Gentle Sweet and spices. Simmer for 2 hours. Add tomato paste. Whisk well. Wash jars, lids, and rings. Rinse well. Ladle ketchup into pint jars. Wipe the rim of the jar clean with a paper towel. Add lids and rings. Only turn the rings finger tight.
• Canning the ketchup: Fill you canner 1/2 full of water. Place the rack in the canner and add the jars. Add additional water to cover the jars by 1 inch. Turn the heat on high. Bring the water to a boil. Reduce heat. Simmer gently for 15 minutes. Turn heat off. Allow the jars to set in the canner for 10 minutes. Remove and cool on a rack for 24 hours. Wash, remove rings, and check seal. Store in a cool dry place. 10 pints

My family gifted me a Vitamix Blender for Christmas. Did you know with a Vitamix Blender you can blend raw tomatoes, skins, seeds, and all smooth? I washed the tomatoes, cut them into wedges, and blended them for 2 minutes. I had a smooth thick sauce to cook. That really is a time saver not to have to put the pulp through a strainer.

You may wonder what type of tomatoes I use when canning. I will use plum or regular tomatoes. Amish Paste is a favorite of many people to make sauce.

Amish Paste are a meaty tomato which produces thick sauce. I used a mixture of these and regular tomatoes to make this batch of pizza sauce.

As you can see, I just cut the tomatoes into wedges to blend them. I blend them raw which is a lot less of a mess.

If you blend the tomatoes for 2 minutes in a Vitamix, you will blend the pulp and seeds smooth. There is no need to strain the pulp. This will give a much thicker juice and you will not need to simmer it as long to thicken it.

I always add either butter or oil to my tomato sauce before I cook it. That will keep sauce from boiling over. When you boil raw tomato sauce it will foam, splatter, and cook-over making a mess on your stove. Butter or oil will keep the sauce from boiling over. After simmering for 20 minutes the foam will be cooked away.

Simmer for 2 hours. Add tomato paste. Whisk well.

Ladle the ketchup in to washed and rinsed pint jars. Wipe the rim clean with a paper towel.

After the jars are canned and cooled. Remove rings, check for seal, and wash the jars.

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This is the style Vitamix that I have. It was a learning curve on how to use it compared to a Ninja but I love it. It makes the smoothest smoothies and tomato sauce.

I love to use my stainless steel stockpot for canning. It does a wonderful job.

If you are doing a lot of canning, it would be wise to invest in a stainless steel canner. They will last a lifetime. The black and white specked Granite Ware canners chip and leak after a while.

I have bought mostly Ball Canning Jars to use. They can be reuse multiple times and last for years.

This canning tool set is so useful when preserving food. I have an old jar lifter that was my mother’s. It holds so many memories of canning as a young girl.

I often buy Tomato Paste by the gallon of I can find it. Otherwise I use these 12 ounce cans.

Ceylon Cinnamon has a fruity and slightly sweet taste. It is a very fine powder and works great in ketchup where you dont want any grit.

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