Tomato ketchup has corrupted the palate of a whole lot of people. It has become the taste enhancer for everything they eat and the taste of real food gets masked with tomato ketchup.
Ironically, people seem to avoid sugar in their beverages and rightly in most cases, but they slather most of their food with ketchup on the other hand, not realising they are eating a lot of sugar along with a fair range of chemicals in the ketchup. I would prefer to have a bit of sugar in my tea and coffee instead and of course a better tasting tomato sauce as a condiment if I need some.
I have shared a home made tomato ketchup recipe earlier and have got really good feedback for that. Another tomato, tamarind and red chili chutney has earned many fans over the years. Many other homemade dips make even better condiments than ketchup and not too time consuming. It is actually not too difficult to keep making such condiments at home and keep ketchup away from our lives.
The tomato sauce that I am sharing today is great for pastas, for pizza, for potato wedges and fries and even when smeared on omelets, parathas or sandwiches, wraps etc.
It needs dry powdered ingredients apart from tomatoes and red bell pepper for the ease of making it but you can use fresh garlic and onions if you wish. The taste will be slightly different in that case but still great if you balance the chili heat to your preference.
ingredients
(makes about 300 ml thick sauce)
If you abhor tomato ketchup like I do, you would love some of these chutneys that are quick to make and add more zing to life than the junk ketchup.
Tamatar ki meethi chutney
Date and tomato chutney
Angoor ki chutney
Plum chuntey
Mango chutney
Sweet chili tamarind sauce
Date ginger and tamarind chutney
You don't need any ketchup when there are so many chutneys, sauces and dips in your repertoire, for every season and for all sorts of food.
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