How to pickle tomatoes?

Fresh, juicy tomatoes in winter to find not sojust. Most often they are already tasteless and watery. And how you want in the cold winter to spice the fresh kitchen with something spicy and aromatic, to give refinement. In these cases, home saving is always saved. Today, let's talk about how to pickle tomatoes for the winter.

How to pickle tomatoes: you need to know

For pickling dense tomatoes are selected without any damage.
For pickling tomatoes of any maturity will suit, the main thing is to sort the tomatoes by maturity and size and salting them separately.
Red tomatoes are best salted in jars,Green and brown are suitable for barrel salting. In a barrel, red tomatoes can crumble and turn into porridge. How to pickle tomatoes in cans, including green ones, we will consider below.
Like other vegetables, tomatoes must be thoroughly washed before salting. Further in the recipes we will not mention it.
During salting tomatoes are poured hotmarinade, as a result of which there is a chance that tomatoes break, and this is not very good, even from an aesthetic point of view. So usually before laying in jars, tomatoes are punctured with a fork in the stalk area or incised with a knife.
If you want to know how to pickle tomatoes delicious,pay attention to the spices that are most well combined with tomatoes. These are: garlic, horseradish, bay leaf, celery, red pepper, tarragon, black pepper and dill.

Salted tomatoes without twist

For one three-liter jar you will need:

tomatoes (about 2 kg);
garlic (3 teeth);
bay leaves (3 pcs);
leaves of cherry and black currant (2-3);
horseradish (you can leaves);
pepper peas black (10 pieces);
salt (about 90 gr);
water (about one liter).

Cooking process:

Fill the jar with tomatoes to the top, leaving a little space on top. In the process of laying, you can add garlic and horseradish leaves, ripped with hands.
Boil the brine. We put water on the fire, put the peas of pepper, all the remaining leaves and salt. Slightly exhale, remove from heat and cool.
Pour the tomatoes with brine and cover with an ordinary cap nylon. Put it in a cool place, where we store it.

How to pickle green tomatoes

For such an unusual recipe you will need:

green tomatoes (it's interesting when they are small) kilograms two;
salt two tablespoons;
three to five leaves of currant and the same number of leaves of cherry;
vinegar one tablespoon;
dill umbrellas - two things;
horseradish root about 20 grams;
peppercorns - 10 pieces;
one liter of water.

Preparation.

Put the punctured tomatoes in the jar so that they sit tight. Move each layer of spices.
Prepare brine from water, vinegar and salt. Bring to a boil and gently pour into the jar.
Roll up the lid, then gently turn over the jar and put it down on the towel or blanket. On top, also wrap the jars with a blanket.
After cooling, you can send the cans to the storage location. At room temperature, you can also store.

Garlic tomatoes with sweet pepper

Next, we will not describe the entire technologypreparation, in general, it is the same. We cook the tomatoes in the cans as in the previous recipes, we also prepare brine. We will write only the proportions for the preparation of these spicy tomatoes with pepper.

For 10 kilograms of tomatoes is 250 gramssweet peppers and 15 grams of chilli pepper; 150 grams of greens (dill); about 30 grams of garlic. For brine, a half kilogram of salt per 8 liters of water.

Tomatoes with cinnamon

An unusual recipe for tomatoes will be appreciated by true gourmets. Delicate, delicate aroma and a touch of cinnamon will give a special zest to tomatoes.

So, we need 10 kilograms of tomatoes5 grams of bay leaves and about 1.5 teaspoons of cinnamon. If you do not want to use the powder, take a cinnamon stick for 3 grams. For the brine is also a half a kilo of salt for 8 liters of water.