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Almost everyone loves tomatoes. And this is quite understandable. They are delicious both fresh and canned. The benefits of this vegetable are undeniable. It is especially important that they contain a lot of lycopene - a powerful antioxidant, which is a therapeutic and preventive remedy for many diseases.
There are different ways to preserve tomatoes for the winter. It is not necessary to marinate them whole. There are many recipes in which tomatoes are cut in half or into even smaller pieces.
This method is convenient because you can use small containers, even with a capacity of 0.5 liters. These vegetables go well with parsley. You can also add onions, sweet bell peppers, garlic and even apples. All these additives will make the taste of vegetables richer, and the variety of ingredients will bring undeniable benefits. The marinade in such canned food is not inferior in taste to the vegetables themselves and is often drunk before they are eaten. Recipes for preparing tomatoes with parsley are as follows.
Tomatoes with parsley
To prepare tomatoes with parsley for the winter, it is better to take plum-shaped or other shaped tomatoes, but strong and unripe; even brown ones will do, although when canned they will be a bit dense.
For five half-liter jars you will need:
- tomatoes – 1.5 kg;
- parsley - a large bunch;
- marinade – 1 l.
To prepare this amount of marinade you need:
- water – 1 l;
- sugar – 6 tbsp. spoon, you need to take it so that there is a small slide;
- salt – 50 g coarsely ground;
- vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon for each jar.
The cooking process is quite simple
- Wash and sterilize jars and lids. Since after filling the jars according to this recipe are not sterilized, they must be pre-treated very carefully;
- wash the tomatoes and let the water drain;
- cut them in half;
You can also use tomatoes slightly damaged by late blight, provided they are firm enough. - lay the tomatoes in layers, top each layer with parsley;
- when everything is ready, make the marinade - heat a liter of water, adding all the sugar and salt;
- You can do different things with vinegar - add tbsp. spoon into each jar or pour everything into the pan with the marinade before turning it off;
- pour boiling marinade up to the shoulders;
- We roll up the jars with lids, they need to be turned over and covered with a blanket for a day.
This is the easiest recipe for canning tomatoes in slices. There are many variations of it.
Tomatoes marinated in slices with vegetable oil and spices
To prepare canned food according to this recipe for a liter container you will need:
- tomatoes – 700 g;
- bulb;
- 2 bay leaves and the same number of allspice peas;
- black pepper 5 peas;
- 2 tablespoons of refined vegetable oil.
To fill, you need to prepare the marinade:
- water – 1 l;
- bay leaf;
- cloves and black pepper 5 pieces each;
11 - coarse salt 3 tablespoons;
- 9% vinegar 2 tablespoons.
This amount of marinade can be filled into 2.5 liter jars.
Cooking steps
- wash and cut the tomatoes in half;
We choose tomatoes that are medium-sized and dense. - cut the onion into thin rings;
- wash and sterilize dishes;
- We put spices in each jar and fill it with tomato halves, mixed with onions. Tomatoes should be placed cut side down.
- prepare a marinade from water, salt and spices with the addition of vinegar, boiling everything together;
- pour marinade up to the shoulders;
- sterilize the jars for 10 minutes at low boiling water;
You need to put a cloth on the bottom of the container in which sterilization will take place to prevent the jars from bursting. - add 2 tbsp to each jar. spoons of vegetable oil;
- We close them with pre-sterilized lids and roll them up.
Tomatoes with parsley, onions and sweet peppers
For winter preparations, you can prepare tomatoes according to another recipe, for which, in addition to tomatoes, you will need: onions, garlic, sweet peppers and, of course, parsley. The marinade for pouring is prepared as follows: add 2 tbsp per liter of water. spoons of refined vegetable oil, sugar and salt.
Cooking steps
- Wash all vegetables well.
- We cut the tomatoes into halves or quarters, depending on their size.
You need to choose dense, small fruits. This preparation of tomatoes of different colors looks very beautiful. - We clean the onions and peppers, rinse the seeds from the peppers and cut both vegetables into half rings. They need to be placed at the bottom of a sterilized jar.
We also send garlic there, which needs to be finely chopped or passed through a press. Proportions for a 1 liter jar: half an onion and a pepper, two cloves of garlic.
- Parsley can be cut into large pieces or put in whole sprigs, 7 sprigs per 1 liter jar.
- You can put the remaining onions on top of the tomatoes.
- Prepare the marinade: water with salt, butter and sugar should boil.
- Add a tablespoon of 9% vinegar to each jar and fill it with boiling marinade up to the shoulders.
- Cover them with sterilized lids. In order for canned food to be stored better, it should be sterilized by placing the jar in a pan of warm water and bringing it to a boil. For 1 liter jars, the sterilization time at low boil is a quarter of an hour.
- We take the jars out of the pan, roll them up, turn them over and wrap them for a day.
Winter tomato preparations are a great addition to the table. They don’t require much time to prepare, but there will be a lot of pleasure and benefit.
