How to salt tomatoes
Products
Tomatoes are not large - 5 kilograms
Water - 5 liters
Salt - 300 grams
Sugar - 150 grams
Dill - 100 grams
Horseradish root - 25 grams
Horseradish leaves - 50 grams
Black currant leaves - 50 grams
Garlic - 15 grams
Red hot peppers - 10 grams
How to salt tomatoes
1. Wash and dry the tomatoes and herbs, cut off the herbs from the roots.
2. Cut the stalks off the tomatoes, prick them 2-3 times with a needle through and through.
3. Put herbs and spices (except horseradish) on the bottom of the cans, put tomatoes on top, cover with shitty sheets.
4. Boil the pickle for pickling tomatoes: pour water into a saucepan and put on fire, add salt and sugar, boil.
5. While the brine is boiling, sterilize the jars.
6. Cool the brine for 10 minutes and pour it into hot sterilized jars.
7. Loosely cover the jars with lids, keep at room temperature for 3 days.
8. Tightly tighten the lids and place the tomatoes in a cool, dark place.
Fusofacts
- Amount of salt when pickling tomatoes, you should count depending on the ripeness of the tomatoes: salt more green tomatoes, take not 50, but 70 grams of salt for each liter of brine.- Tins with tomatoes should be kept in containers until they need to be cleaned in the cold. when insisted, it will start fermentation process and there will be more liquid.
- Tomatoes will completely salted during the week.
- Store tomatoes should be done in the cold or at room temperature in a dark place, but then when twisting the cans, add a little vodka (50 milliliters of vodka per 3-liter can) and mustard powder (1 tablespoon per can). Properly harvested tomatoes will last up to 2 years. Store an opened jar in the refrigerator for 1 week.
- When salting tomatoes, you can add spice - bay leaf, horseradish root, pepper pod, mustard seeds, cherry or currant leaves, celery, tarragon.
- When salting large tomatoes, you can stuff them with garlic - for this, it is necessary to insert 1 clove of garlic into the places of the stalks.
- It is better to select tomatoes for pickling dense and mature, large... Then they can even be cut in half to save space in the bank.
- Tomatoes must be completely covered with brine to avoid mold.
- In addition to cans, as containers for salted tomatoes, you can use a saucepan or bucket - then cover the tomatoes with gauze, put a load on top and rinse the gauze from time to time. However, this method is only good for a short time. tomatoes will start to deteriorate in a week or two.
- Salting season tomatoes - from late July to early October. The cost of products for pickling tomatoes in the season (2019) is about 350 rubles. / 3 liters, the price is for June 2020.