Cooking with Ketchup

Italian Tomatoes 
   ...in a Bottle


Because tomatoes are the backbone of so many Stokes sauces, their quality and consistency are paramount.

We found just what we needed ripening in the Mediterranean sunshine on the hillsides of southern Italy.

We simmer to reduce and intensify a better, natural flavour and firmer texture.

An amazing 200g of beautiful tomatoes are reduced into every 100g of Stokes Tomato Ketchup.

When we created and were finally happy with our Award-Winning Ketchup we added some very very tasty twists:

There's ketchup ... and there's the 

Stokes Ketchup Range

 

Cook it with Ketchup

Taste should be - exciting:

By coating these Barnsley chops with Stokes Chipotle Ketchup before browning and casseroling them, we add the wonderful smoky heat of chipotle chillis and rich tomatoes.

Shake a good glug or two of our Curry Ketchup to simmering baked beans to add Asian spices to a richer, deeper sauce.

Stir Stokes Bloody Mary Ketchup into a bolognese sauce for extra 'wow' and a rich tomato depth.

Stir Stokes Chilli Ketchup into gravy, soups and stews to heat a wonderful tomato base.

Taste should be - challenging:

Chips come in all shapes and sizes these days. Triple cooked and chunky; crispy skin-on French fries; and salted sweet potato chips are the three most commonly available pub chips.

I like lots of Stokes Tomato Ketchup with the chunky triple cooked variety, as they can be rather dry.

Sweet potato fries deserve something a little racier, such as Chilli Ketchup or smoky Chipotle Ketchup.

As for French fries, I like 'der rot und weiss' as they say in Germany - Stokes Tomato Ketchup for the 'rot' (red) and Stokes Real Mayonnaise for the 'weiss' (white).

Are you up for the ketchup challenge?

Taste should be - fun

Cajun Slaw - make a red slaw with finely sliced red cabbage, red onion and red Belgian endives tossed in a mixture of Stokes Chilli Ketchup, cider vinegar and sugar.

Easter Butties - crispy smoked bacon in a buttery hot cross bun with Stokes Bloody Mary Ketchup. The Easter spices in the bun with the BM spices in the ketchup are a  wonderful combination, perfect for that 'morning after' bacon butty.

Salmon Steaks - coat fresh salmon steaks with a mixture of Stokes Curry Ketchup, a dribble of honey and squeeze of lime juice before grilling.

Stokes Tomato Ketchup - from vine, to fine

You can order your exciting, challenging, fun right here

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If good food makes you happy
...adding Stokes will make you smile ;)

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