AuthorStacy SaundersCategorySaucesDifficultyBeginnerEnjoy your potato fries and meat with delicious low histamine tomato free ketchup!
**Update: When I first published this recipe I accidentally left out two key ingredients, the water and the honey! 🤦♀️Please use this revised recipe.**
Makes about 1 3/4 cups of ketchup
Drain the canned carrots and beets.
In a high speed blender combine all ingredients. Blend until pureed. If it's too thick, add 1 Tb of water.
(Depending on your blender, the puree will be fine and smooth or a little chunky. The Vitamix made it fine and smooth, the Ninja blender made it chunky).
Pour puree into a medium sauce pan, cover, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Uncover and reduce to a simmer for 20 min, stirring occasionally.
When the ketchup is done, let it cool for 10-15 minutes, then store 1-2 servings in a small airtight container in the fridge. Freeze the rest in tiny containers or an ice cube tray.
Keeps for 1 week in the fridge, but for lowest histamine levels, use within 1-2 days.
Adapted from: https://naturalnoshing.com/2015/05/23/ketchup-nightshade-free/
Guys, before this diet, ketchup was a staple in my diet. I seriously LOVE ketchup. When I ate fries I always had to use like 8 ketchup packets. So giving ketchup up was rough. Meat and potatoes tasted so bland. I did eventually get used to eating without ketchup, but I still searched high and low for a low histamine ketchup recipe that wasn't made from blueberries...because I'm not that adventurous.
Then I found this recipe and with a few tweaks it was completely low histamine friendly. As it was simmering on the stove, I was amazed by how much it smelled like and looked like ketchup! Then came the taste test...it's a winner!!!! I keep a stash in the freezer and pull it out when I have hamburgers or potato fries. You know what's just as awesome as low histamine ketchup? Sweet and sour sauce, made from low histamine ketchup! That recipe will be coming up soon 😉
Ingredients
Directions
Drain the canned carrots and beets.
In a high speed blender combine all ingredients. Blend until pureed. If it's too thick, add 1 Tb of water.
(Depending on your blender, the puree will be fine and smooth or a little chunky. The Vitamix made it fine and smooth, the Ninja blender made it chunky).
Pour puree into a medium sauce pan, cover, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Uncover and reduce to a simmer for 20 min, stirring occasionally.
When the ketchup is done, let it cool for 10-15 minutes, then store 1-2 servings in a small airtight container in the fridge. Freeze the rest in tiny containers or an ice cube tray.
Keeps for 1 week in the fridge, but for lowest histamine levels, use within 1-2 days.
Hi, what age is this recipe aimed it? Honey is only for over 1 year olds? If I make this for my 10 month old I’ll leave the honey out. Will it still taste good?
Thanks,
A clueless mama.
Excellent point! Yes, honey is only for over 1 year olds. You can make this without honey, it will just be more of a sour ketchup. I have a reader who makes it like that and her young kids love it. You could also try replacing the honey with 1/4-1/2 cup of sugar. You’ll have to play around with it to get the taste you like. You could start with a 1/4 c. of sugar and taste it after it boils but before you simmer it for 20 min. If it’s not sweet enough add more sugar. I’d love to hear how it turns out!
Hi, I am sorry you are going through this. I am histamine intolerant as I just found out few months ago; I have been seeing wholistic clinician who did functional genomics testing and it showed I have mutation in DAO enzyme that breaks down histamine. I have been on DAO supplement which helped tremendously. I just wanted to let you know about it as well. Joel Rosen is a clinician that I found on youtube who recommended the test. Test is called functional genomics test. I hope that helps improve you and Rose’s quality of life.
May I ask what DAO supplement you take? Thank you.
Enjoying going through your recipes to collect and start trying some as I miss many foods! I thought that vinegar was a no for those with HIT?
I’m glad you’re finding some recipes to try! If you follow the SIGHI food list (all my recipes are based off of it), white distilled vinegar is rated as a level 0 histamine (the lowest level of histamine). If you haven’t had vinegar for a while, I would introduce it in very small amounts to see how you react. Good luck!
Made this yesterday, to have with home made roasted potato wedges 🙂 absolutely delicious.!!! I enjoy it even more than ketchup! I substituted honey for brown sugar, and used fresh carrot and fresh beets thinly sliced that I boiled for 15 min with the onion. AMAZZZING. Very similar to ketchup, but with so many more health benefits! I was missing tom sauce SO MUCH. thankyou for this recipe.
Yay! I’m glad you were able to tweak it to your liking. I missed tomato sauce so much too, I was so happy when this recipe came together so nicely! I actually used some of it with dinner tonight haha 🙂
I was really missing ketchup, so thank you! I made this with brown sugar instead of honey and it was delicious. I can’t wait to try the sweet and sour sauce!