Many housewives close tomatoes for the winter, but not everyone realizes that a similar snack can be made to be consumed directly during the summer season. Marinated tomatoes of fast preparation differ in unique taste. They can replace the salad or become its main ingredient, serve as a snack for alcoholic beverages or as an addition to a side dish. In the best way they are suitable for kebabs and kupat.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced cook is able to cope with the preparation of pickled tomatoes in a fast way, but he will need to know a few things.
- To marinate tomatoes quickly, they are usually cut into slices or slices. This should be done with a sharp knife or even a special, resembling a saw with small teeth. When pressing on the skin with a blunt knife, you will squeeze out the juice from the tomatoes, and the skin itself will remain whole for a long time.
- Marinating in a quick way is convenient to large tomatoes, which are often sweet and fleshy. Such tomatoes are not included in the jar as a whole, and they can not be used for all winter preparations.
- Quick-cooking tomatoes can be marinated in glass or enameled containers, plastic containers with a lid. Stainless steel utensils can give the snack an unpleasant metallic aftertaste. Aluminum containers for the preparation of pickled tomatoes are even less suitable: this material, when interacting with acids, forms harmful substances.
- You can even pickle tomatoes in cellophane bags, but for reliability they need to be put one into the other and put on a plate if there is no certainty that the marinade will not leak.
- To make tomatoes marinate well, they should be cut into pieces of approximately the same size. Small fruits can be cut in half, medium - into 4 parts, large - into 6-8 parts.
- Tomatoes, pickled in a fast way, it is undesirable to store for more than 2-3 days, and it is better to eat them on the same day when they were cooked. Snacks will not spoil so quickly, but the tomatoes will make juice, which will make them look less appetizing. The taste of the dish is also not the best way.
You can pickle tomatoes with onions, garlic, and other vegetables and spices. Often for cooking snacks use fresh greens, which gives the snack a unique flavor.
A simple recipe for pickled instant tomatoes
Composition:
- tomatoes - 2 kg;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 0, 2 l;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 0, 25 l;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- salt - 40 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash tomatoes, dry with a napkin. Cut into slices.
- Wash, shake off the greens from the water, let it dry, coarsely chop with a knife.
- Place the tomatoes in layers in a saucepan or container, each layer peppered with chopped greens.
- Combine the oil, vinegar, sugar and salt. Whisk with a whisk until the mixture has a uniform consistency.
- Fill the tomatoes with the prepared marinade. Put in the fridge.
The appetizer will be ready for use after 2 hours. Parsley and dill in the recipe can be replaced with other herbs. Combine well with celery and basil tomatoes.
Whole Pickled Tomatoes with Garlic and Herbs
Composition:
- medium-sized tomatoes (cultivars or similar) - 1 kg;
- garlic - 15-25 cloves (by the number of tomatoes);
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- celery greens - 50 g;
- hot peppers - to taste;
- apple cider vinegar (6%) - 50 ml;
- water - 1 l;
- salt - 20 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the tomatoes, peel the garlic cloves.
- With a sharp knife, cut the stem of the tomatoes together with the adjacent pieces of dense flesh.
- Put garlic cloves in the grooves.
- Finely chop the pepper, pour it to the bottom of the pan.
- Fold the tomatoes into the pan.
- Cut the dill and parsley into small pieces, sprinkle the tomatoes with greens.
- Boil water, add salt. Boil, stirring, until the salt dissolves. Boil another 5 minutes.
- Pour in vinegar, stir. Remove the marinade bowl from the fire.
- Fill the tomatoes with hot marinade, leave to cool at room temperature.
When the marinade has cooled, tomatoes can be served. This appetizer will appeal to lovers of spicy dishes.
Tomatoes marinated in pieces, with garlic and spicy herbs
Composition:
- tomatoes - 1 kg;
- garlic - 8 cloves;
- hot peppers - 30 g;
- dill - 50 g;
- basil - 50 g;
- parsley - 50 g;
- salt - 20 g;
- sugar - 50 g;
- olive oil - 50 ml;
- Apple Cider Vinegar (6%) - 50 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the greens. When it dries, pick the leaves, put it in the bowl of the blender.
- Peel the pepper from the seeds, cut the flesh into small pieces, add to the greens.
- Add garlic cloves cut into 2-3 parts to seasonings.
- Pour vinegar and oil into seasonings, add sugar and salt.
- Turn on the unit, turn its contents into a homogeneous mass.
- Slice the tomatoes.
- Put them in a saucepan or pan, covering each layer with the cooked marinade.
The next day a spicy snack with a spicy aroma can be served. The food has such a refined look and a pleasant taste that it would be appropriate even on a festive table.
Pickled instant tomatoes with bell peppers
Composition:
- tomatoes - 2, 5 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 5 kg;
- chili pepper - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 10 cloves;
- parsley - 100 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- salt - 40 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- Table vinegar (9 percent) - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the tomatoes into halves.
- Cut the sweet pepper into quarters of 3-4 mm thick rings.
- Finely chop hot peppers, garlic and greens.
- Place the tomatoes in a plastic container. Only fit that can be closed very tightly. If this is not, you can use glass jars.
- Putting tomatoes, sprinkle them with sweet and spicy peppers, garlic and greens.
- Top with sugar and salt, pour in vinegar and oil. No need to mix.
- Close the container and turn it over. Put on a plate.
- After 20 minutes, return to the starting position, after about the same time, put the lid back on. Turn over 7-9 more times, making the interval between these manipulations equal to about 15-30 minutes.
- Move the container with the tomatoes and peppers into the refrigerator.
You can serve snacks to the table the next day. She does not need any addition, it is enough to put it on a dish.
Tomatoes marinated in a fast way, with soy sauce and honey
Composition:
- tomatoes - 0, 6 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- onions - 100 g;
- parsley - 50 g;
- basil - 50 g;
- olive oil - 60 ml;
- wine vinegar (3 percent) - 60 ml;
- Dijon mustard - 5 ml;
- salt - 30 g;
- sugar - 30 g;
- honey - 5 ml;
- soy sauce - 20 ml;
- black ground pepper - a large pinch.
Method of preparation:
- Cut tomatoes into large slices.
- Peel the onion, cut into semi-rings of medium thickness.
- Cut the garlic into thin plates.
- Tear off leaves from greenery, it is better to leave them whole.
- Put the vegetables and herbs in a large bowl.
- Mix the remaining ingredients separately.
- Pour marinade over vegetables, mix gently.
- After an hour, stir again and put it in the fridge.
In an hour, the appetizer will be ready for serving. It remains only to shift it to a salad bowl or a beautiful dish.
Marinated tomatoes of fast preparation - universal snack. Depending on the recipe, they can be sharp, spicy, tender. Cooking snacks does not take much time, but will have to wait from 2 to 12 hours while tomatoes are marinated.
