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Meat-minced tomatoes are a great substitute for store-bought ketchup and sauces. In addition, you can cook any dish and process the largest tomato crop. Mashed tomatoes with garlic for the winter can be prepared in different ways, with a variety of additional ingredients.
Harvesting mashed tomatoes for the winter
For the preparation of mashed tomatoes, you need to use the most ripe fruits. Green tomatoes will not provide enough flavor and are more difficult to preserve. Ripe, soft fruits will be easier to grind, will give a sufficient amount of juice with sourness. Preservation will be stored for a long time. Ideally, the fruit should be soft, fleshy. The softer the tomato, the more juice it will give. In this case, it is impossible for the tomatoes to be sick or with rot.
It is important to properly prepare the jars. They must be thoroughly washed and sterilized over steam. It is recommended to wash containers with baking soda. Pay attention to salt. It should not be iodized so that the taste does not deteriorate over time. The rest of the ingredients are also of high quality.
It is important to follow the cooling process of the tomatoes, ground with garlic for the winter. After the tomatoes are rolled up and thermally processed, the jars must be wrapped in a warm blanket so that the cooling process takes place slowly. In this case, all microorganisms will die, and conservation will be stored for a long time.
Grated tomatoes with garlic for the winter
Garlic-mashed tomatoes are made with the following ingredients:
- a kilogram of fleshy tomato;
- 100 g of garlic;
- salt to taste;
- sugar and black pepper also taste.
The cooking process step by step does not look like a complicated procedure, in most cases it is accessible and understandable to every housewife:
- Remove stalks from fruits and discard.
- Grate the tomatoes themselves, discard the skin.
- Crush the garlic, you can grate on a fine grater.
- Put the tomatoes on low heat and boil.
- Add all the ingredients there.
- Immediately after boiling, spread over hot containers and roll up.
In this form, the workpiece can be stored for more than one year, if all storage rules are followed.
Tomatoes, mashed for the winter (recipe without garlic, only tomatoes and salt)
You don't need garlic for this pureed tomato recipe. Enough tomato, per liter of juice, a tablespoon of salt and sugar. The shelf life will not change from this, only the taste will change, since without the garlic some pungency will disappear. But this is not for everybody.
The recipe for cooking tomatoes rubbed into the pulp is simple and familiar to everyone:
- Pour boiling water over the fruits and leave for 5 minutes.
- Remove the skin, after processing with boiling water, it is not difficult to do this.
- Grind with a blender in mashed potatoes, you can use a meat grinder.
- Pour into a saucepan and add salt, sugar, required by volume.
- Boil for 10 minutes.
- Pour into hot cans, roll up.
After that, turn over, wrap in a blanket. After cooling down, you can lower it into the basement or cellar. In the case of an apartment, you can leave it on the balcony, the main thing is that the temperature does not drop below zero.
Mashed tomatoes for the winter with garlic and basil
There is a separate recipe for cooking grated tomatoes with garlic. In this case, in addition to garlic, basil is added. It gives the preparation a piquant taste and a special aroma. At the same time, the principle and manufacturing technology do not differ from the previous options.
The ingredients you need are:
- 1 kilogram of ripe tomatoes;
- sugar, salt to taste;
- a few sprigs of fresh basil;
- a couple of cloves of garlic.
It is advisable to choose tomatoes that are as ripe as possible, large, fleshy, so that the amount of juice is large. Recipe:
- Rinse the tomatoes under running water.
- Cut the tomatoes into small chunks so that it is easier to grind, remove the stalks.
- Grind in a meat grinder, put on fire.
- It takes 20 minutes to cook the mass from the moment it boils.
- Add salt, granulated sugar and chopped garlic.
- Basil sprigs need to be washed and thrown as a whole into the tomato mass.
- Wait until it boils and pour into hot jars.
Cover immediately, roll up. Before wrapping in a blanket, you can check the tightness of closed cans. It is necessary to turn the container over, put it on a dry sheet of paper. If a wet spot remains, the jar is not closed well, and the workpiece may deteriorate.
How to properly store chopped tomatoes with garlic
In order for the preservation of mashed tomatoes to be preserved for at least one year, certain rules for storing blanks should be observed. There are natural preservatives in tomatoes, this fruit is best stored in blanks. In order for the twist to be stored for a long time and without problems, you need to place it in a dark room with a low temperature. In private houses - a cellar or basement. The temperature should not exceed +10 ° C, but it should not fall below zero in winter either.
If the walls freeze in the cellar, then you will need to choose another room for the blanks.
Another indicator is humidity. There should be no moisture or mold traces on the walls of the basement. Sunlight should not penetrate the room, this has a detrimental effect on the workpiece.
In apartments, a balcony, a dark pantry is suitable for storing conservation. In any case, it should be dark, dry, cool there.
Conclusion
It is easy to prepare mashed tomatoes with garlic for the winter and there is no need to choose a large number of ingredients. Almost any fruit will do, the main thing is that they are ripe enough. The cooking process is always simple - grind, boil, add the rest of the ingredients and pour into jars. Then roll up, cool and put on safe. Thus, you can replace store-bought ketchup and always have homemade sauce or dressing for soup at hand. If there are no additional components, then in winter, grated tomatoes can be turned into tomato juice.
