The most delicious recipes for canned tomatoes with plums for the winter
All people love various goodies, their shortage is especially acute in winter, when fresh vegetables are quite expensive. To pamper yourself with a pleasant addition to your meal, you can cook your own pickled tomatoes during the summer. In this case, we are not talking about the classic preparation of pickles from pure tomatoes, but with the addition of an ingredient such as plums. In this case, you should consider in detail how tomatoes with plums are prepared for the winter, as well as the simplest, but, at the same time, popular recipes.
Choosing a variety of tomato and plum
When choosing these ingredients, special attention should be paid to the taste of tomatoes, since most plums have a rich sweetness. Tomatoes don't have to be the same, otherwise the marinade will turn out sugary and sweet.
Consider the main points that you should pay attention to when harvesting tomatoes with plums for the winter:
- The size and thickness of the skin on the fruits (tomatoes, it is recommended to pick thick-skinned, and plums - not large).
- Taste qualities (here everyone chooses for himself on his own, since someone likes everything sweeter, and someone on the contrary).
- The shape of the fruit (especially large and rounded tomatoes are quite difficult to get out of the jar, so it is better to give preference to not large oblong varieties).
- As mentioned earlier, it is not recommended to choose large varieties of plums, otherwise you will not get a tomato with plums, but vice versa.
- The recipe to be used to prepare pickled vegetables with the addition.
- What is additionally planned to be used when harvesting fruits for the winter (greens, vinegar, zucchini or other additions).
Based on these parameters, everyone chooses for themselves which varieties of tomatoes and plums to use to prepare a pleasant addition to a winter meal.
We prepare the ingredients
All recipes use their own ingredients, however, for each case, the following actions are characteristic of the fruits of tomatoes, as well as plums and additional preparations, namely:
- tomatoes must be pre-rinsed, and subsequently dried thoroughly before conservation;
- drains are also thoroughly washed and then dried at room conditions;
- greens or other additions are used to taste, in addition, they are also thoroughly washed and dried;
- when preparing a tomato with plums for the winter, you will need table vinegar with a small strength (9 percent is enough);
- any other vegetable additions are also thoroughly washed and then dried;
- almost any recipe requires garlic, everyone adds it to taste, but a couple of heads are enough for a jar of pickles.
Additionally, the required amount of salt is prepared in advance. After preparing everything, it is required to carry out the appropriate steaming of the cans for salting.
Depending on the amount of work to be done, a suitable amount of ingredients is prepared.
How to cook tomatoes with plums for the winter
There are enough recipes to prepare a delicious preparation for the winter.
Everyone has their own preferences, so you should describe only a few of them that are most popular:
- classic blank recipe;
- pickled tomatoes with plums;
- a delicious recipe with spicy herbs;
- using prunes instead of fresh plums;
- canned tomatoes with cherry plum;
- pickling recipe without using vinegar.
Each option for preparing salting must be considered separately, since the cooking procedure is different, as are the ingredients used.
Classic salting recipe
For manufacturing, you will need the required amount of tomatoes, plums, horseradish leaves, cherries, as well as peppercorns. Additionally, you need to prepare spring water in a volume of 10 liters, two glasses of salt and a glass of sugar.
The preparation is as follows:
- jars are washed thoroughly;
- tomatoes and plums are mixed inside;
- water must be salted and covered with sugar, mixed;
- banks are filled with water, and greens are placed on top;
- closed with plastic lids and infused for a day.
After a day of insisting in the room, the cans need to be rolled up under metal lids and lowered into the cellar, after 2 months you can eat pickles.
Pickled tomatoes with plums
For cooking, you need a kilogram of tomato and a pound of plums, as well as an onion, allspice and any greens. You also need to prepare 2 liters of water, 3 tablespoons of salt, 7 tablespoons of sugar and 50 ml. vinegar.
Pickles are prepared as follows:
- chopped onions are placed in clean jars;
- greens and garlic are added as desired;
- everything is poured with boiling water and infused for 20 minutes;
- everything is poured into a saucepan, spices are added, and the mixture boils for 2 minutes;
- tomatoes and plums are stacked in jars, and then the contents are filled with marinade.
The can is rolled up under a metal lid, and then sent to cool.
Herb Recipe
For cooking, you need a kilogram of tomatoes, a pound of plums, onions, a few garlic, herbs, as well as bay leaves and 100 grams of vinegar.
The recipe is prepared as follows:
- put herbs, as well as onions and garlic in a clean jar;
- the jar is filled with tomatoes and plums;
- a little onion is also placed in the middle;
- Pour boiled water into a jar, and then drain;
- then re-fill with boiled water and leave for 10 minutes;
- the water is drained into a saucepan and poured with vinegar, salted and sugar is added;
- everything is poured into a jar and rolled up with a lid.
After the can cools down under a warm blanket for 24 hours, then it is stored in a cool place.
With prunes
As with pickled tomatoes with plums, this recipe has a similar preparation, except for the fact that prunes are added to the marinade instead of ripe plums.
Additionally, you may need to add sugar for flavor if the marinade is overly salty.
Canned tomatoes with cherry plum
For cooking, you need a pound of tomato, 100 grams of cherry plum, half an onion, allspice to taste, bay leaf, and other greens. The recipe is prepared as follows:
- all spices are placed in washed and dried jars;
- tomatoes are superimposed on the bottom, and cherry plums and onions on top;
- then the bank is filled with tomatoes to the top;
- a marinade is being prepared, three tablespoons of salt and the same amount of sugar are added to the water, as well as vinegar in an amount of 50 grams;
- after the can, it is poured with marinade and infused for 10 minutes.
As soon as the pickles are infused, conservation continues by rolling the cans under the metal lid.
No vinegar
Any recipe is suitable for cooking, just so that the brine does not turn out sour, vinegar is not added, which makes the tomatoes sweeter and harder.
But you should take into account the fact that for some recipes it is unacceptable to refuse vinegar, because otherwise the composition may turn out to be cloying and sweet.
Storage rules for workpieces
To keep pickles for a long time, you need to follow some rules:
- high humidity must be present in the room;
- requires a low temperature;
- lack of penetrating sunlight and daylight;
- sterile atmosphere.
If all these conditions are observed in the storage, then the blanks for the winter will be stored for a long period of time.
