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Almost everyone loves tomatoes. And this is understandable. They are delicious both fresh and canned. The benefits of this vegetable are undeniable. It is especially important that they contain a lot of lycopene - a powerful antioxidant, which is a therapeutic and prophylactic agent for many diseases.
You can preserve tomatoes for the winter in different ways. You don't have to marinate them whole. There are many recipes in which tomatoes are cut in half or into even smaller pieces.
This method is convenient in that you can use small dishes, even with a capacity of 0.5 liters. These vegetables go well with parsley. You can also add onions, bell peppers, garlic and even apples. All these additives will make the taste of vegetables richer, and the variety of ingredients will bring undeniable benefits. The marinade of such canned food is not inferior to the taste of the vegetables themselves and is often drunk before they are eaten. The recipes for cooking tomatoes with parsley are as follows.
Tomatoes with parsley
To cook tomatoes with parsley for the winter, it is better to take plum-shaped or other forms of tomatoes, but strong and unripe, even brown ones are suitable, however, in canned form they will be rather dense.
Five half-liter cans will require:
- tomatoes - 1.5 kg;
- parsley - a large bunch;
- marinade - 1 l.
To prepare this amount of marinade you need:
- water - 1 l;
- sugar - 6 tbsp. spoons, you need to take it so that there is a small slide;
- salt - 50 g of coarse grinding;
- vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon on each jar.
The cooking process is simple enough
- wash jars and lids and sterilize. Since, after pouring, the cans according to this recipe are not sterilized, they must be pre-processed very carefully;
- wash the tomatoes, let the water drain;
- cut them in half;
You can also use tomatoes slightly damaged by late blight, provided that they are dense enough. - we lay the tomatoes in layers, we shift each layer with parsley;
- when everything is ready, we make a marinade - we heat a liter of water, adding there the entire norm of sugar and salt;
- with vinegar, you can do differently - add according to Art. spoon into each jar or pour everything into a saucepan with marinade before turning it off;
- pour boiling marinade up to the shoulders;
- we roll up the jars with lids, they need to be turned over and must be covered with a blanket for a day.
This is the easiest recipe for canning tomato slices. There are many variations of it.
Tomatoes marinated with wedges with vegetable oil and spices
To prepare canned food according to this recipe for liter dishes, you will need:
- tomatoes - 700 g;
- bulb;
- 2 bay leaves and the same number of allspice peas;
- black pepper 5 peas;
- 2 tablespoons of refined vegetable oil.
For pouring, you need to prepare the marinade:
- water - 1 l;
- bay leaf;
- 5 cloves and black pepper;
11 - coarse salt 3 tablespoons;
- 9% vinegar 2 tablespoons.
This amount of marinade can be poured into 2.5 liter jars.
Cooking steps
- wash and cut the tomatoes in half;
Choosing medium-sized and dense tomatoes. - cut the onion into thin rings;
- wash and sterilize dishes;
- put spices in each jar and fill it with halves of tomatoes, mixed with onions. Tomatoes should be stacked cut down.
- we prepare a marinade from water, salt and spices with the addition of vinegar, boiling everything together;
- pour marinade up to the shoulders;
- sterilize the jars for 10 minutes at low boiling water;
At the bottom of the dishes in which sterilization will take place, you need to put a rag so that the jars do not burst. - add 2 tbsp to each jar. tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- we close them with pre-sterilized lids, roll them up.
Tomatoes with parsley, onions and bell peppers
For winter preparations, you can cook tomatoes according to a different recipe, for which, in addition to tomatoes, you will need: onions, garlic, bell peppers and, of course, parsley. Marinade for pouring is prepared as follows: add 2 tbsp per liter of water. tablespoons of refined vegetable oil, sugar and salt.
Cooking steps
- All vegetables are well washed.
- Cut the tomatoes into halves or quarters, depending on their size.
You need to choose dense small fruits. This blank of tomatoes of different colors looks very nice. - Peel the onions and peppers, wash the peppers from the seeds and cut both vegetables into half rings. They need to be placed on the bottom of a sterilized jar.
We also send garlic there, which needs to be finely chopped or passed through a press. Proportions for a 1 liter jar: half an onion and a pepper, two cloves of garlic.
- Parsley can be cut into large pieces or put in whole branches, 7 branches per 1 liter jar.
- You can put the rest of the onion on top of the tomatoes.
- Cooking the marinade: water with salt, butter and sugar should boil.
- Add a tablespoon of 9% vinegar to each jar and pour boiling marinade up to the shoulders.
- We cover them with sterilized lids. For canned food to be stored better, it should be sterilized by placing the jar in a pot of warm water and bringing it to a boil. For cans of 1 liter, the sterilization time at low boiling is a quarter of an hour.
- We take the jars out of the pan, roll them up, turn them over and wrap them for a day.
Winter tomato preparations are a great addition to the table. They do not require a lot of cooking time, and there will be a lot of pleasure and benefit.
