Posts Tagged ‘tomato’

Make Your Own Tomato Ketchup

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Ingredients
2 kg of very ripe tomatoes, 1 large onion, 6 cloves, 4 allspice berries, 6 peppercones, 1 fresh rosemary sprig,25 grams of ginger (sliced), 1 celery heart, 30 ml brown sugar, 65 ml raspberry vinegar, 3 cloves peeled garlic, 1 tsp salt
Method

Soak tomatoes in boiling water for 1 minute, drain and peel tomatoes hten set aside in a large pan. Peel the onion and stud it with cloves.
Put onion, allspice, peppercone, rosemary and ginger into double layer of muslin and tie it up. Add it into the pan together with sugar, vinegar, garlic and salt.
Bring mixture to a boil with occasional stiring, reduce to low heat and simmer for another 2 hours, stir regularly until mixture reduce by half.
Blend the mixture with a food processor and return to pan. Bring to a boil and off the heat.
Leave it to cool completely and bottle it in clean sterillized jars and store in refrigerator.
Use within 2 weeks.
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Anti-Ageing Food – Tomatoes

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

A rich sauce of lycopene, tomatoes help prevent cell ageing. Cooked tomatoes release five time more lycopene than raw tomatoes. Increasingly research is suggesting that, of the many types of carotenoids found in food, lycopene is the most beneficial for protecting against coronary heart desease and cancer, especially cancer of the lung, stomach, mouth, colon, rectum and postate gland.

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