{"id":7681,"date":"2013-11-25T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2013-11-25T01:22:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T06:22:33","slug":"homemade-ketchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/homemade-ketchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Ketchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generally speaking, ketchup is king with little kids. I know a few littles that don’t like it at all (aliens, obviously) but as a rule, kids and ketchup are a great pair. I have seen a lot of parents (among other family members) make a meal and present it to a child and be horrified or disappointed when they ask for ketchup. As if it is so offensive to them that a 4 year old wants to drown the pot roast they worked on all day in tomatoes and sugar. As long as my kids eat it, I’m cool with pretty much whatever they want to smother it in. My only problem is when I do my best to make a nutritionally balanced meal and a good portion of it goes uneaten, usually the healthiest part. <\/p>\n

Insert dramatic sigh? Never! Insert healthy ketchup recipe instead! This is another winner from Deceptively Delicious<\/a>\"\"! Thank you (yet again), Mrs. Seinfeld.<\/p>\n

When I make homemade chicken strips and a veggie medley and they skip the medley to dunk the chicken strips in this ketchup, I’m fine with it. They’re getting huge doses of vitamins C, A and K plus potassium from both the tomato paste and the carrot and the flavonones, flavonols and hydroxycinnamic acids from the tomato. That just means they’re both great with anti-cancer, cardiovascular benefits and bone health.<\/p>\n

You probably have most of the ingredients in your pantry already, too! All you need is a couple of mason jars. <\/p>\n

Homemade Ketchup<\/div>\n

1 6oz can tomato pasts
\n1\/2 cup carrot puree
\n1\/4 cup water
\n2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
\n2 cloves garlic, minced
\n1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
\n1\/2 teaspoon dry mustard
\n1\/4 teaspoon salt
\n1\/4 teaspoon ground allspice
\n1\/4 teaspoon chili powder (or not, taste it first and decide)<\/p>\n

Crazy simple. Just dump all but the chili powder in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower to a simmer for about 20 minutes, or until it has reduced by half.<\/p>\n

It’s good in the fridge for 5 days at the most, but how long does a bottle of ketchup last with a few kids running around? Spoiler: not long at all. You can freeze it for 3 months though! I put about 1\/4 of this recipe in a jar in the fridge, 1\/4 in the freezer and I shared the other half with our neighbors.<\/p>\n

\"Homemade<\/p>\n

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Generally speaking, ketchup is king with little kids. I know a few littles that don’t like it at all (aliens, obviously) but as a rule, kids and ketchup are a great pair. I have seen a lot of parents (among other family members) make a meal and present it to a child and be horrified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[169,99],"tags":[1113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}