Easy Homemade Red Caviar Using Ketchup

Homemade red caviar for table decoration! I don’t recommend buying artificial caviar with a lot of preservatives in the store. Moreover, it is easy to make at home from natural products. Try it!
cook time: 2h
Nora Vaughn
Easy Homemade Red Caviar Using Ketchup

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

397
Calories
43g
Fat
3g
Carbs

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Salt to taste
Water 1 cup
Ketchup 1.5 tbsp
Sunflower oil (An hour before preparing caviar, sunflower oil should be placed in the freezer.) 1 cup
Agar-agar 1.5 tsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
PRODUCTS NEEDED: water, you can take mineral water without gases or fish broth; ketchup or tomato paste, you can make caviar from a glass of tomato juice, but then you won’t need water; agar-agar 1.5 teaspoons or gelatin, but take 4 times more quantity, i.e. already 6 teaspoons; salt to taste, how much more or less salted caviar you prefer; sunflower oil is preferably odorless; We will also need a disposable syringe without a needle.

Step 2

Step 2
PREPARATION: An hour before preparing caviar, sunflower oil should be placed in the freezer. Pour a glass of water into a small saucepan or saucepan, add ketchup or tomato paste, mix everything carefully with a spoon so that the ketchup is well dissolved, add a little salt to taste, stir, then add agar-agar, mix everything well.

Step 3

Step 3
Place the saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the contents come to a boil, then remove from heat 5-7 seconds after boiling.

Step 4

Step 4
Pour the mixture from the saucepan into a separate bowl and leave to cool in the room to room temperature.

Step 5

Step 5
After the liquid has cooled, you need to mix it well, take the resulting mass into a syringe and drop a few drops into a glass with sunflower oil.

Step 6

Step 6
Since sunflower oil is cold and the caviar liquid is at room temperature, the droplets instantly turn into small balls, settle to the bottom of the glass and exactly imitate caviar, and sunflower oil prevents the eggs from sticking together.

Step 7

Step 7
As soon as the oil in the glass has reached the edge, you need to strain the finished caviar using gauze or a sieve, and then also work through the rest of the caviar mass.

Step 8

Step 8
Well, thatʼs all — the caviar is ready! It is no different from what is sold in the store, only store-bought caviar also contains various harmful chemical additives. This caviar can be used to decorate a holiday table — sandwiches, salads, etc. This is how red caviar is made easily and simply. You can make black caviar in the same way, just use soy sauce as a base.

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