9 best recipes for cooking tomatoes in slices for the winter
Many housewives grow tomatoes in their gardens, from which you can prepare many delicious dishes. Often harvested vegetables are used to prepare sliced tomatoes for the winter. Before preparing blanks, you need to familiarize yourself with how to do them correctly.
Features of pickling tomatoes with slices
Before you start canning tomatoes, you will have to figure out the peculiarities of cooking such salting:
- it is necessary to select in advance vegetables that are suitable for further pickling in jars;
- it is not recommended to use too large tomato fruits for canning;
- it is better to preserve vegetables in sterilized containers;
- the seaming harvested for the winter should be stored in a cool cellar.
Tomato preparation
To make the salting tasty, you need to choose and prepare the right vegetables. For canning, small or medium-sized tomato fruits are used. Therefore, it is recommended to get rid of large tomatoes as they may not fit in the jar. When choosing tomatoes, pay attention to the density of the peel. It should not be too thick, as the dense skin impairs the penetration of the brine into the fruit.
Selected vegetables must be prepared in advance for canning. They are carefully washed from contamination, if necessary, they are soaked and cut into pieces.
Container preparation
The jars in which the tomatoes will be canned must be prepared for pickling vegetables. First, they are carefully examined and checked so that there are no chips or signs of cracking on them. Then they are thoroughly washed with warm water and cleaned from dirt.
If they are too dirty, you will have to use an alkaline solution.
The cleaned container must be sterilized to get rid of bacteria. To do this, each jar is heated in boiling water for fifteen minutes. You should also sterilize the lids that will close the jars.
How to roll tomatoes into slices for the winter
There are several recipes with which you can prepare slices of tomatoes for the winter.
Vinegar-free recipe
Many people prepare salty preserves with the addition of vinegar. However, you can prepare such a snack for the winter without using this ingredient. First, the marinade is prepared, which will then be poured into jars. This will require 200 grams of salt and 5-6 liters of water.
While the marinade is boiling, washed and sliced tomatoes with dill, parsley and black pepper are added to sterilized jars. Then the container can be filled with marinade and closed with lids.
Without sterilization in liter jars
Delicious winter pickles are often rolled up in small liter jars. To start canning, you need the following ingredients:
- five cloves of garlic;
- two onion heads;
- three kilograms of tomatoes.
First, all the tomatoes are cut into slices, after which they are peeled and chopped onions with garlic. Then the chopped components along with the herbs are placed in a liter container. The containers with vegetables are filled with marinade and covered with lids.
With gelatin "Lick your fingers"
Some prepare winter preserves with the addition of gelatin. This ingredient is added to the marinade. 80-100 grams of gelatin are added to a liter of water. In addition to it, black pepper and bay leaves are added to the brine to improve the aroma.
The jars are filled with vegetables before rolling up. Chopped tomatoes mixed with parsley, dill and black pepper are placed in a container. The brine is poured into the container, and then rolled up with lids.
With garlic
Garlic blanks differ from other winter snacks with a pleasant aroma. Peel four heads of garlic, cut into cubes and place in curling containers. Then the tomato fruits are washed in water, cut into pieces and added to the garlic. To make the preparation tastier, vegetables are mixed with spices.
The marinade is made from ordinary water, which is boiled along with bay leaves and dill. The boiled liquid is poured into a container, after which it is rolled up.
With herbs and hot peppers without sterilization
There is another recipe that will help you prepare canning without sterilization. In this case, you will have to prepare the following ingredients in advance:
- one and a half kilograms of tomatoes;
- four heads of garlic;
- greenery;
- hot pepper pod;
- Bay leaf;
- vinegar.
First, the tomato fruits are washed and cut into small pieces, after which they are placed in a container. Then cut pepper with herbs and vinegar is added. The container is filled with boiled hot brine.
With carrots
It is recommended to salt tomatoes with the addition of fresh carrots, which will give the pickling a unique flavor. To prepare the brine, just add 5-6 liters of salt to the water and bring it to a boil. Then the liquid is poured into containers filled with grated carrots, herbs, chopped onions and tomatoes.
With horseradish
To get a fragrant and very tasty snack, you need to pickle tomatoes with horseradish. You can prepare a vegetable dish for the winter by following these steps:
- cut ripe tomato fruits;
- peel the bell pepper and cut it into strips;
- peel the garlic and cut it into small pieces with a knife;
- put vegetables in a container along with horseradish and other herbs;
- prepare marinade from water, salt and black pepper;
- fill the container with vegetables with marinade and close the lids.
In red wine
Fans of gourmet dishes should pay attention to the recipe for creating a winter preparation with the addition of red wine. You will need the following ingredients:
- half a liter of wine;
- three kilograms of tomatoes;
- 85 grams of salt;
- greens to taste.
Tomatoes are cut into slices and carefully folded in a sterilized container. Then water is mixed with wine and marinade is prepared from the resulting mixture. Greens are added to the jars, filled with hot wine liquid and canned.
With spices without sterilization
To make the taste of winter preparation more unusual and exotic, you need to add more spices. It can be bay leaves, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and black pepper. An appetizer with spices is prepared in the same way as simple tomatoes without sterilization in liter jars.
Storage rules for canned tomatoes
Preservation should be stored under the most suitable conditions, in which it will not deteriorate for a long time. For storage of tomato pickles, basements or balconies are used, where the temperature is at the level of 5-10 degrees Celsius.
Conclusion
Many housewives prefer to harvest tomatoes in slices for the winter. Before creating an appetizer, you will have to figure out the recommendations for preparing blanks according to different recipes.
