Recipes for cooking tomatoes with carrot tops for the winter
Harvested tomatoes with carrot tops for the winter have recently begun to enjoy popularity. Carrot tops are added to salting to make it more delicious and unusual. This ingredient is quite convenient to use. For example, some carrots can be added to soup or other dishes, and their tops can be used to prepare a blank.
Before preparing canned tomatoes with carrot tops, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with how to salt tomatoes.
Container preparation
Before preparing carrot tops, it is necessary to sterilize containers, in which it will then need to be preserved. This is done in several different ways.
Ferry
Steam treatment of containers is the most popular sterilization method used by a large number of housewives.
Before sterilizing them, you should inspect and make sure that the container is completely intact. Then all the seaming jars are thoroughly washed out with a soda solution.
Having cleared the containers of dirt, you can start preparing the pan. It is filled with water, which must be boiled. After that, a special grid is installed on the pan to place containers for tomatoes with carrot tops on it. Sterilize the container not too long - 10-15 minutes. Then you can roll tomatoes with tops in them.
In water
This method is very often used when pickling tomatoes with carrot tops. It is ideal for seaming cans into small jars, as they are much easier to place in a pot.
During sterilization, water is collected in the pan, which is gradually brought to a boil. Then the container does not fit and is cooked for 10 minutes. To make it easier to remove sterilized jars from hot water, you should use a fork or tongs.
In the oven
This is not the most common method of preparing containers to seal canned food. However, some people use it so as not to waste time boiling water.
Several cans are placed in the oven at once. After that, its temperature should be gradually increased to 120-150 degrees. The process should take about 15 minutes, after which the containers will be ready for canning.
Classic recipe
The classic recipe for tomatoes with carrot tops for the winter is one of the most popular. With its help, you can cook quite tasty salted tomatoes that will not spoil for a long time.
The following amount of ingredients is consumed per liter jar of twist:
- 2-3 liters of water;
- 7-8 carrot leaves;
- a kilogram of tomatoes;
- 300 ml vinegar;
- 60 g salt;
- 80 g of sugar.
Preserving begins with pre-cooking all ingredients. All tomatoes are washed, dried and cut for the winter. You should also cut the tops with them. After that, you can start preparing the container. You can limit yourself only to washing cans if pickled tomatoes with carrot tops are cooked without sterilization.
However, it is still recommended to sterilize them using one of the methods discussed earlier.
Having prepared the container, you can prepare the marinade. To do this, fill a small saucepan with water and boil for 20 minutes. Then sugar with salt and vinegar is added to it. In parallel with this, tomatoes and carrot tops must be placed in each jar. All containers are filled with marinade and infused for half an hour. Then the liquid from the cans is again poured into the pan, boiled and poured into the container. After all the containers are filled with marinade, I canning the tomatoes and transfer them to the cellar for storage.
With bay leaves
This recipe differs from the previous one in some ingredients. In this case, to prepare a blank tomato with carrot tops, you will need:
- a kilogram of tomatoes;
- carrot tops;
- three liters of water;
- 80 g sugar;
- 200 ml vinegar;
- three bay leaves;
- 25 g pepper.
You can add garlic or onions to the recipe to brighten the flavor.
First, prepare the tomatoes. It is recommended to use sweet varieties of tomatoes for preservation. They are finely chopped with tops and laid out in pre-prepared jars. After that, a marinade is made from hot water, to which a little vinegar, sugar and pepper are added during the boil. Bay leaves can be added to the marinade right away or placed in a jar before rolling.
Having prepared the marinade, you need to pour it into each jar and leave to infuse for 20 minutes. Then the liquid is drained to re-boil it and refill it into the container. This procedure is carried out several times, after which the containers are rolled up with lids.
The preservation turns over and cools down for several days in this position. After that, the salting is transferred to the storage cellar. If there is no cellar, then any room with a low temperature and low lighting is suitable for long-term storage of canned tomatoes.
Conclusion
Salting tomatoes is quite simple and any person who has never before been interested in canning vegetables for the winter can handle this work. To do this, you will have to spend a lot of time to study the most popular recipes and reviews of people who have been making spins for many years.
