Pickled tomatoes - an integral part of our diet. They are happy to eat and at the holiday, and at the daily table.
And every zealous mistress has his favorite recipes for tomato twists for the winter. The taste of canned tomatoes can be different - sharp, sweet, sour. It all depends on the spices and seasonings added to the marinade.
These tomatoes are served as a complete snack, and in addition to many other dishes. Thanks to natural acid and vinegar, they are perfectly stored. However, this type of preservation has its subtleties in cooking.
Did you know? The use of a large number of tomatoes, heat-treated, is typical for Mediterranean cuisine. Low mortality from heart attacks of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards is associated with this fact.
Red pickled tomatoes
Most often, red, ripe tomatoes fall into the jars.
Sharp
Tomatoes marinated with garlic and chili pepper, have a particularly spicy taste. They are perfect for a variety of alcohol, kebabs and meat cooked on the grill. To prepare you need:
- one and a half kilograms of red tomatoes;
- 1 pod of chili;
- several cloves of garlic;
- a few sprigs of dill;
- 1 tsp coriander;
- 3 tsp. salts;
- 1 tsp Sahara;
- 30-40 ml of vinegar (9%);
- 3-4 black peppercorns;
- 3 buds carnations.
Tomatoes tightly placed in sterile jars, placed between them chili, chopped garlic, parsley sprigs. Banks completely poured hot marinade.
Filled containers put in a pan with a towel at the bottom and boil for 5-10 minutes, depending on the volume.
After sterilization, the jars are closed, turned upside down and covered with warm clothes until they are cool.
Tomatoes prepared this way can be stored for up to two years in a cool place.
Sweet
There are a lot of recipes for sweet pickled tomatoes. But most often experienced housewives use a basic set of products. A 3-liter jar will need:
- ripe tomatoes (enough to fill the jar as much as possible);
- 200 g of sugar;
- 80 ml of vinegar (9%);
- 1 tbsp. l salts;
- 4 bay leaves and a couple of black peppercorns.
Salt and granulated sugar are added to the drained water, boiled for three minutes and tomatoes are poured again. After that, the containers are rolled, wrapped and left to warm until completely cooled.
Marinating tomatoes in this recipe guarantees a sweet, flavorless flavor.
How to pickle green tomatoes
Green tomatoes canned with the same ingredients as red ones.
Sharp
To get sharp pickled tomatoes you need (the quantity is indicated per 1.5-liter jar):
- 1 kg of green tomatoes;
- 1 bay leaf;
- half a pod of bitter pepper;
- 10 black peppercorns;
- 6 peas allspice;
- 30 g of sugar and salt;
- 10 ml of 70% vinegar;
- half a liter of water.
Then it is filled to the brim with boiling water and covered with a sterilized lid. Leave it for a few minutes. Next, the water is drained and add salt and sugar at the rate of 60 g per 1 liter.
The resulting liquid is brought to a boil, vinegar is added to it and again poured into jars, rolled. Banks are kept under a warm blanket until they cool.
Sweet
Sweet pickled green tomatoes perfectly diversify the daily menu. One kilogram of green tomatoes will require:
- 7 black peppercorns;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 1 bay leaf;
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l salt and citric acid;
- a few sprigs of dill;
- a few sprigs of currants and / or cherries.
Water is drained, the salt is dissolved in it, the sugar and again boiled. After this, add citric acid and vinegar to the jars, pour in the marinade and roll up. Banks are turned upside down, wrapped with a thick cloth to cool completely.
Original recipes for harvesting tomatoes
Tomatoes for the winter are harvested by most of the housewives, but truly original and useful recipes will provide on the table in the winter not only tasty snacks, but also the necessary vitamins.
Did you know? The concentration of natural antioxidant lycopene in pickled tomatoes is higher than in fresh ones. It protects the body from the damaging effects of free radicals, preserves the beauty and youthfulness of the skin.
Pickled tomatoes with onions
On 7 liter cans of pickled tomatoes with onions you need:
- 5 kg of tomatoes;
- 3 liters of water;
- 1 kg of onions;
- 10 cloves of garlic;
- 100 g of salt and sugar;
- 160 ml of vinegar (9%);
- 1/2 root horseradish;
- 1 pod of hot pepper;
- a few sprigs of dill and currants.
Then the banks poured boiling water, allowed to stand for 10 minutes and drain the water. It is brought to a boil by adding salt, sugar and vinegar, and again poured into jars.
Important! The marinade needs to be poured so much that it starts to flow out of the container.
Then the banks are sealed with a key, turned over and left warm until they have cooled.
Pickled tomatoes with garlic
For one 3-liter jar you will need:
- 1.5 kg of tomatoes;
- 2 tbsp. l salts;
- 6 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 2 medium heads of garlic;
- 1 tsp acetic acid (70%).
Sterilized, heated in the oven cans should be filled with washed tomatoes, pour boiling water for 10 minutes and cover with cooked lids. Cover pre-boil for five minutes.
Then the water from the tanks need to be drained, add salt, sugar, acetic acid and bring to the boil again. Add crushed garlic to jars and pour boiling marinade. Now they can be rolled up. Keep the jars warm until they cool down.
Marinated Pepper Tomatoes
For cooking pickled tomatoes with pepper you need:
- 3 kg of tomatoes;
- 1.5 kg of bell pepper;
- 10 bay leaves;
- 20 black peppercorns;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 100 g of salt;
- 50 ml of vinegar (6%)
- 1.7 liters of water.
At the bottom of the liter cans put 5 peas and 6 bay leaves. Then alternately lay tomatoes and chopped peppers. In boiling water, add salt, sugar and vinegar, stir. Ready marinade poured banks immediately rolled up and sent to storage.
Pickled Tomatoes With Eggplants
For one 3-liter jar you will need:
- 1 kg of eggplants;
- 1.5 kg of tomatoes;
- 1 hot pepper;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 1 bunch of greens (parsley, dill, mint, etc.);
- 1 tbsp. l salt.
Peeled and the middle of the eggplant must first be sprinkled with salt and left for 3 hours. Then they should be thoroughly washed and stuffed with chopped greens.
Spices should be placed on the bottom of the jar, half filled with tomatoes, and stuffed with eggplants on top.
Marinade is prepared by adding salt, sugar and vinegar to boiling water. This liquid is poured in jars with tomatoes and eggplants, sterilized for half an hour. Rolled up. Wrap up.
Marinated tomatoes with beets
For one 3-liter jar you need:
- tomatoes (as much as possible to fill the jar);
- 5 onions;
- 1 medium beet;
- 2 medium apples;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 5 peas allspice;
- 1 celery branch;
- 1 tbsp. l salt;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 1 dessert spoon of vinegar.
Peel the beets and chop them into cubes. Apples cut into 4 parts. Peel the onions from the husk. Put dill, allspice, garlic, celery and then vegetables at the bottom of the sterile jar.
All pour boiling water and leave for 20 minutes. After that, drain the water, add vinegar, salt and sugar to it, boil and pour again. Now you can roll up the banks. Leave to cool up under a warm blanket.
Pickled tomatoes with apples
Delicious pickled tomatoes for the winter will make the addition of sweet apples.
One 3-liter jar requires:
- tomatoes (max fill capacity);
- 2 sweet apples of average size;
- 3 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l salts;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- horseradish leaves, dill, currants.
Then salt and sugar are added to the water drained from the cans, brought to a boil and poured again. Now the tomatoes need to roll up and wrap to cool. After that, the conservation should be moved to a cool place.
Marinated Tomatoes with Plums
Ingredients Required:
- 1 kg of plums;
- 1 kg of tomatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 5 peppercorns;
- a few sprigs of parsley;
- 3 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l salts;
- 1 sheet horseradish;
- 2 tbsp. l vinegar.
Then the containers are poured with boiling water, covered with lids and left for 15 minutes. After a quarter of an hour, the water is drained, salt, sugar, vinegar is added to it, boiled again and immediately poured into jars.
The last stage is the capping of the cans with sterile caps. Before complete cooling, preservation is kept wrapped up.
Marinated Tomatoes with Grapes
A 3-liter jar will need:
- 3 kg of tomatoes;
- 1 Bulgarian pepper;
- 1 bunch of grapes of any variety;
- 1 pod of hot pepper;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 2-3 bay leaves;
- 1 piece of horseradish root;
- 3 sprigs of dill;
- cherry and / or currant leaves;
- 1 tbsp. l salt and sugar.
At the bottom of the jar put all the spices and herbs, then - tomatoes, mixed with berries of grapes and slices of sweet pepper. On top, all sprinkled with the specified amount of salt and sugar.
The cans filled in this way are poured with boiling water, covered with a lid and allowed to stand for 10 minutes. Then the marinade needs to be drained, brought to a boil, and again poured into the jars. Roll up and keep warm until cool.
Marinated Tomatoes with Black Currant
For cooking you will need:
- 2 kg of tomatoes;
- a couple of leaves of black currant;
- 300 ml of black currant juice;
- 1.5 Art. l salt and 3 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 liter of water.
Important! Since currants have their own distinct taste, no additional spices are needed.
Washed tomatoes pierce with a toothpick at the stem. Currant leaves are placed on the bottom of the cans, then tomatoes are placed on them. Tightly stuffed banks.
To prepare the marinade, add sugar, salt, currant juice to the water and bring to the boil. Tomatoes are poured with this boiling liquid and left for 15-20 minutes.
Then three times the marinade is drained from the cans and boiled again. After the third time, you should roll up the jars, wrap them in a blanket and leave them warm until completely cooled.
It is recommended to close the tomatoes for the winter in one-liter jars so that they can be eaten quickly, but for a large family it is better to use 3-liter containers.
Important! To limit the use of pickled tomatoes because of the high content of salt in them should be people with diseases of the cardiovascular system and kidneys. You should also be careful of those who are prone to allergic reactions.
If the technology of marinating and sterilization is strictly observed, the jars will not explode, and the product will not deteriorate.