Preservation of tomatoes for the winter - recipes for blanks

The harvesting period is always a responsible event, since it is during this period that it is necessary to take care of what will be on the table all winter.

Zealous hostesses strive to foresee all the nuances and prepare the fruits of the harvest so that it is both tasty and healthy. Fortunately, there are a thousand recipes that have delighted with their taste for more than one year.

Useful properties of tomatoes

Tomatoes have unique properties. Their positive action allows:

1. Have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system.
2. Lower cholesterol levels.
3. Destroy and prevent sticking of blood platelets.
4. They have a large amount of antioxidants.
5. Prevent the development of osteoporosis.
6. They have anti-cancer properties.
7. Indicated for obesity and low metabolic process.

Before you start harvesting, be sure to prepare the fruits - wash them and sort them. If you mix different varieties and different levels of ripeness in one container, you get porridge. Also, do not preserve tomatoes of different sizes.

Preservation is possible both with and without the peel, but if not, the tomato is blanched, and so that the whole vegetable does not crack, it is pierced at the stem.

It is also worth sorting the tomato by integrity - the tomatoes must be whole.

It is necessary to say about salt. Some people find it very beneficial to add sea salt to preserves. However, in practice, this is not relevant, since such conservation is not always “worth it”, and it is difficult to choose the right ratio of such salt, due to the dishonesty of manufacturers.

When adding horseradish oak leaves, cherries and currants to a jar, it increases the taste of the product, and also makes the seaming crispy, stronger, etc.

important to say- the more spices, the better.

How to choose and prepare a product?

The hostesses know why it is important to carefully select the fruits, because one poor-quality tomato will ruin the entire jar.

Therefore, it is necessary to choose tomatoes that have:

1. Form.
2. Elasticity.
3. There is fine graininess.

The tomato should be mature enough - for seaming, not have green areas.

Important: select the fruit by smell, since the absence suggests that such a crop was created as a result of selection on the contrary - for endurance, and not for the benefit and quality of taste. They have a hard and thick skin, no seed chambers, and the core will be fibrous and green.

How to grow more crops?

Any gardener and summer resident is pleased to receive a large harvest with large fruits. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to get the desired result.

Often plants lack nutrition and useful minerals

It has the following properties:

• Allows increase yield by 50% in just a few weeks of use.
• You can get good harvest even on low-fertility soils and in adverse climatic conditions
• Absolutely safe

How to prepare banks?

The first rule of successful preservation is carefully sterilized jars. Initially, they are washed with soda, then heated. Thus, the negative flora is completely killed in them.

It does not matter how the sterilization will be carried out, it is important that the jar is perfectly clean.

Before rolling anything, the container must be prepared. Thoroughly wash all jars, and then sterilize, thereby removing the remnants of microorganisms and detergents.

Banks must be inspected for chips and damage. Sterilization can be carried out in several ways:

1. For a couple. To do this, you need to put a jar over boiling water (water is drawn into the pan, and a sieve is placed on top) and hold each for minutes. After - put the container on a towel to cool.
2. On the water. To do this, a wooden board is laid out on the bottom of the pan, jars are laid out on top, with an interval between them. Banks must be completely in the water. Boil them for a couple of minutes.
3. On a steamer. The method is quick and easy, since the container must be laid out in a double boiler and the appropriate mode must be turned on.
4. In the oven. 15 minutes at 160 C.
5. In the microwave. 15 minutes at 700 watts.

Note! After all the jars are sterilized, corked, they must be turned upside down, wrapped in a warm blanket. Cooling home preservation should occur gradually so that there is no temperature drop.

Preserving tomatoes for the winter - recipes

First of all, for conservation, everything must be prepared in advance. Eg:

1. Prepare cooking utensils.
2. Wash fruits thoroughly.
3. Prepare onions, peppers, carrots, herbs, spices.
4. When rolling to the bottom of the preservation container, line with chopped onions, carrots, peppers, and several branches of greens. Then make a bookmark of vegetables and fill everything with boiling water for 30 minutes.
5. Prepare a brine from 3 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar and 2 teaspoons of salt, diluted in 1.5 liters of water.

Canned tomatoes without sterilization

To prepare a tomato according to this recipe, you need:

• tomatoes;
• spices (pepper, horseradish, dill, bay leaf, leaves of fruit trees);
• marinade - 60 gr. salt, 120 gr. sugar, 5 g of vinegar.

Cooking:

Previously, the jar is poured with boiling water, then spices, tomatoes are laid out without liquid and boiling marinade is on top.

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Canned tomatoes with garlic

Tomatoes prepared according to this recipe are extraordinarily tasty. For their preparation it is necessary:

• 2 kg tomato;
• garlic;
• vinegar;
• For brine - 60 gr. salt, 120 gr. sugar, 1 liter of water, black pepper, cloves, currants, dill..

Cooking:

Everything is thoroughly washed, the stalk is cut out, garlic is inserted into each of the tomatoes, everything is carefully laid out in a container.

After laying, the jar is poured with boiling water for 10 minutes. After - the water is drained and the brine is poured, 30 gr are placed on top. vinegar in each container. Once sealed, the jars are turned upside down.

Sweet tomatoes for the winter

Spicy, extraordinarily tasty tomatoes can be prepared according to this recipe for a 3-liter container:

• tomatoes;
• bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
• garlic;
• chilli;
• onion 4 pcs.

Marinade:

• water - 1.5 liters;
• salt 60 gr;
• sugar 150 gr.;
• black pepper and bay leaf - 6 pcs.;
• vinegar - 60 gr.

Cooking:

Put everything in a container, keeping the order from the bottom - onions, peppers, spices, tomatoes. Then, pour boiling water for 5 minutes, drain. In parallel, prepare the marinade and pour it into boiling jars. At the very end, add vinegar.

halves of tomatoes

Everyone's favorite recipe - halves, will not only be a great addition to a winter dinner, but also a great appetizer or main dish on the festive table. This recipe requires the addition of vegetable oil, which makes it extraordinary.

To prepare such tomatoes, you need to prepare:

• parsley,
• basil,
• garlic,
• bulb,
• spices - pepper, bay leaf, 1 tablespoon of sugar, salt, vegetable oil, vinegar and 1 teaspoon of salt.

Cooking:

First, the layout is done - spices, herbs, and then tomatoes - cut in half. It is not necessary to invest them too tightly, but not loosely either.

Salt and sugar, oil and vinegar are poured into each container, everything is poured with boiling water. First, the jars are covered, boiled in boiling water for up to 20 minutes and canned immediately upon delivery.

Tomatoes in their own juice

Tomatoes prepared according to this recipe are incredibly tasty, as they have both sourness and a pleasant spicy aroma. Despite the high cost of such a recipe - after all, it is necessary to prepare tomato juice earlier for it, the recipe still deserves attention.

For this workpiece, you need to prepare:

• 3 kg tomato - for juice;
• 3 kg tomato for seaming;
• spices - dill, parsley, peppercorns.

Cooking:

Squeeze the tomatoes in a juicer and digest them with spices, salt and sugar at the rate of a tablespoon per liter.

Put tomatoes for seaming in a jar, add 2 pcs. pepper, pour boiling water for 20 minutes. After - drain the water, and instead of it, tomato juice is poured. Cover everything and roll up.

Tomatoes with mustard

No less interesting recipe with mustard. Such conservation will be a real find.

To prepare a tomato in this way, it is necessary to prepare a brine - boil water, adding sugar and salt there at the rate of 30 grams per liter. Then put the tomatoes in a jar, add pepper and garlic, pre-chopped. It is also necessary to lay out dill, spice seeds, 10 grams of dry mustard.

Everything is poured with a boiling solution, corked and laid out under a warm blanket for 15 hours.

The end of the summer season - the beginning of autumn, the time when everyone begins active work on harvesting. What methods are not used - from conservation, to pasteurization and fresh preparations. Each method has its own history and adherents.

Note! Homemade preparations are a great treat for both family and guests. Regardless of the recipe chosen, tomatoes harvested in the fall are wonderful.

Salted, canned, pickled or lightly salted - tomatoes are unbeatable. Choose any of the proposed recipes - and the deliciousness that will be on the table will certainly please you with its taste.