Salted tomatoes are a snack, beloved by many of our compatriots. It is served to strong drinks and just like that - to potatoes, pasta, meat. The hostesses, who have a cellar in the house, salt the tomatoes for the winter, but not everyone has such opportunities. But every cook can cook salted tomatoes in a fast way. Usually they are made in small quantities and they are soon eaten. These preparations take place in the refrigerator for only a few days while vegetables are sown. The finished snack is not stale.
Cooking Features
Even a novice cook will be able to pickle tomatoes in a fast way, since the technology of cooking this snack is not complicated. Knowing a few moments will give an impeccable result.
- For salting in a fast way, select small-sized tomatoes. Most housewives prefer fruits of the variety Cream. Slightly less popular varieties are Lady Fingers, Adam's Apple. They are not inferior to them and cherry tomatoes of various varieties.
- Large vegetables can also be pickled in a quick way, but they will have to be cut into 2-4 pieces, otherwise they will sprinkle for a long time.
- Tomatoes selected for pickling must be of the same variety, approximately the same size and degree of maturity, otherwise they will salt out unevenly: some fruits will be slightly salted, others - salted.
- Hot marinade is usually used to quickly pickle tomatoes. You can make a snack in cold marinade, and even completely without marinade, but the result will have to wait a little longer. Accelerates the process of salting and an increase in the amount of salt, sugar, the addition of vinegar, lemon juice, but with the introduction of such components should be careful, as this may adversely affect the taste of ready-made tomatoes.
- It is possible to salt the tomatoes in a fast way in a pan, a glass or ceramic baking dish, a jar, or a plastic container. Only aluminum utensils will not work, as this material comes into contact with acids, forming harmful substances and giving the snack an unpleasant metallic aftertaste.
- Many housewives use cans to pickle tomatoes in a fast way. They are good enough to wash, sterilization is not necessary. Jars with instant salted tomatoes are not rolled up, but covered with plastic caps. In this case, the containers do not have to be filled to the very neck. Pulling tomatoes out of the cans is convenient culinary tongs.
Salted instant tomatoes are usually ready to eat in a few hours, but at this time they are lightly salted. They become truly salty after standing in a refrigerator for 2-4 days. Keep them too need in the refrigerator. If storage conditions are met, the snack will not spoil for at least two weeks, sometimes even for a month. But it turns out so tasty that it hardly lasts so long.
A classic recipe for instant salted tomatoes
Composition:
- tomatoes - 1-1,5 kg;
- water - 1, 5 l;
- salt - 60 g;
- sugar - 50 g;
- dill umbrellas - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- chili pepper (optional) - 0, 5 pcs .;
- black pepper peas - 3 pcs .;
- allspice - 3 pcs .;
- bay leaf - 1-2 pcs .;
- leaves of fruit trees (optional) - 2-4 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Wash tomatoes, dry with a napkin. If the fruits are small, make a toothpick puncture around the stem. Cut large tomatoes into 4 slices.
- Put dill, all kinds of pepper, currant leaves, cherries and garlic cloves in half at the bottom of the pot or jar.
- Place tomatoes on top.
- Boil water, add sugar and salt to it. Wait until they dissolve.
- Add laurel leaves. Boil for 2-3 minutes.
- Fill the tomatoes with hot pickle. Cover the container with a lid. Leave the tomatoes salted at room temperature until the brine has cooled completely.
After cooling, the container with tomatoes should be placed in the refrigerator. After 2-3 days (depending on the size of the fruit and the degree of their maturity), salted tomatoes will be ready for use. Instead of hot pepper, you can add sliced half rings sweet pepper or onions. Then the appetizer will get a completely different taste, less spicy, but no less pleasant.
Instant salted tomatoes in a spicy marinade
Composition:
- tomatoes - 1 kg;
- water - 1, 5 l;
- cinnamon - 1/4 of the sticks;
- salt - 50 g;
- sugar - 40 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- currant leaves - 2 pcs .;
- cherry leaves - 2 pcs .;
- fresh parsley, dill, celery - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the tomatoes by washing them by drying them with a kitchen towel and chopping them with a toothpick. Large fruits need to be cut or even divided with a knife into 2-4 pieces.
- At the bottom of the container in which you plan to pickle the tomatoes, put half of the washed and dried herbs, cinnamon, leaves of fruit trees and garlic cloves.
- Put tomatoes on top. Cover them with the remaining greens.
- Boil brine from water, salt and sugar. Without cooling, fill them with tomatoes. Leave at room temperature for 3-4 hours.
- Put it in the fridge.
After 2-3 days, the quick-cooking tomatoes salted in a spicy marinade will be ready to eat.
Stuffed Tomatoes of Quick Salt
Composition:
- tomatoes of small or medium size - 2 kg;
- coarse salt - 100 g;
- garlic - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- fresh cilantro - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Finely chop the fresh greens with a knife, having washed and dried them beforehand.
- Pass the garlic through the press, add to the chopped greens.
- Pour in oil, mix.
- Wash tomatoes, dry, make transverse cuts, not cutting to the edge about 1 cm.
- Salt both halves from the inside, using at least 1 tsp of salt for each tomato.
- Spread the filling between the tomatoes.
- Fold the tomatoes into a glass mold or pan, cover with cling film.
- Leave at room temperature for 5-6 hours. Then put in the fridge. Salted tomatoes will be 2-4 days, depending on their size and the amount of salt used.
This is one of the few recipes for quickly salting tomatoes in a dry way, without using brine. Thanks to this snack has a unique taste. It looks so appetizing that it can become a decoration of a festive table.
Prepare salted tomatoes can be according to different recipes. Some of them allow you to make a snack, ready to eat in a few days.
