banana ketchup

plural banana ketchups · alternative banana catsup

1. countableuncountablecookingA condiment, a type of ketchup where the tomatoes are replaced by bananas and red food dye.

   I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines.

   2005, Theresa M. Welford, The Paradelle: An Anthology, page 36

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   Let us take ketchup for instance. Is there such a thing as "banana ketchup" or "papaya ketchup" so that we have to define "ketchup" as containing so much percent of tomato and nothing more?

   1965, Science Review, volumes 6-8, page 43

   […] banana ketchup, which has replaced tomato ketchup in the Philippines because of its superior flavour and much lower cost.

   1996, M. Flach, Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates, page 126