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Caring housewives try to prepare as many pickles as possible for the winter. Rolled up cucumbers and tomatoes, assorted vegetables and other goodies will always come to the table. Spicy snacks are especially popular, which are good in combination with meat, fish, vegetable and potato dishes. So, it's not difficult to cook Green tomatoes for winter. We will try to present a few simple recipes for delicious salting later in the section. Our recommendations and advice will help novice housewives to master the basics of canning, and more experienced craftswomen to find new interesting recipes for themselves with photos.
A good recipe for every housewife
Green tomatoes will turn out sharpif supplemented with garlic, hot chili and spices. Sharpness appetizer mustard, horseradish root, celery and some other ingredients can also add. The more products are included in a recipe, the more difficult it will be to implement, but the taste of the "complex" snack will be brighter and more original. For example, a simple recipe for instant green pickled tomatoes with hot peppers for the winter includes only a few of the most readily available ingredients.
For one jar with a volume of 1.5 liters, you will need green tomatoes themselves (how many will fit in the specified volume), 1-2 hot chili peppers, 2-3 garlic cloves. Salt and sugar in the recipe must be used in the amount of 2 and 4 tbsp. l. respectively. The main preservative will be 1 tsp. vinegar essence 70%. The appetizer will acquire a special aroma and spice with the addition of currant and cherry leaves, allspice peas, dill umbrellas.
Pickled green tomatoes in the following way:
- Wash and preferably sterilize the jars.
- At the bottom of the containers, put currant and cherry leaves torn into several parts, dill umbrellas.
- Peel and cut the garlic into several pieces.
- Cut the chili pods. Remove grains and partitions from the inner cavity. Cut the peppers into small pieces.
- Put garlic and chili on the bottom of the jar.
- Cut the washed tomatoes in half or into several pieces, depending on the size of the vegetables.
- Put the tomato slices in a jar.
- You need to prepare the marinade from 1 liter of water, salt and sugar. Before pouring liquid into jars, it must be boiled for 5-6 minutes.
- Add the essence to the filled jars before stopping.
- Turn the rolled containers over and cover with a warm blanket. After cooling, remove the pickles into the cellar.
Slices of green tomatoes are very aromatic and tasty. They retain their shape, but at the same time they are saturated with marinade as much as possible. This appetizer is good on a lean and festive table.
Spicy tomatoes with bell pepper
You can marinate spicy tomatoes for the winter in combination with bell peppers. The following recipe allows you to find out all the details of this preparation.
To fill two liter jars, you will need about 1.5 kg of green tomatoes and 2 large Bulgarian peppers. Vinegar is recommended to add 9% in an amount of 200 ml. Various spices can be included in the product, including cloves, allspice and black peppercorns, bay leaves and other spices. Be sure to put 4 cloves of garlic and 1 red chili in each jar of pickling.
If all the products are collected, then you can start preparing winter pickling:
- Wash the tomatoes and immerse them in cold water for 2-3 hours.
- Boil the marinade with sugar and salt. After a short boil, remove the marinade from the stove, add vinegar. Cool the liquid.
- Prepared, previously sterilized jars can be filled in layers. It is recommended to put bitter pepper, garlic and spices on their bottom.
- Cut the tomatoes into wedges. Cut the peppers into slices.
- Fill the main volume of the jar with a mixture of tomatoes and bell peppers.
- Pour the marinade into the jars and cover them with lids.
- Sterilize the workpiece for 10 minutes, then preserve the containers.
Pieces of bell pepper will make the preparation colorful and unusually tasty. The pepper itself will be saturated with the aromas of the marinade and will be sharp, crispy. It is also readily eaten at the table, like pickled green tomatoes.
Green tomatoes in hot sauce
The recipe below for green tomatoes for the winter is unique. It does not provide for the use of brine, since the main volume of the jar will need to be filled with a spicy mixture of vegetable ingredients. Such workpieces are eaten up especially quickly. Jars always remain empty, because all components of the product are very tasty, aromatic and healthy.
To prepare a snack for 3 kg of tomatoes, you will need 6 large bell peppers, 3 hot chili peppers, 8 garlic cloves. Salt is included in the recipe in the amount of 3 tbsp. l., sugar needs to be added 6 tbsp. l. For safe storage, it is recommended to add a glass of 9% vinegar.
Cooking a snack will take several hours, because most of the products will need to be chopped with a meat grinder, and then insist the tomatoes in the prepared vegetable sauce:
- Cut clean tomatoes in half or into several slices.
- Cut hot and sweet peppers and remove seeds. Grind vegetables with a meat grinder.
- Peel and twist the garlic.
- Transfer the tomato slices to a deep saucepan and mix with the resulting vegetable gruel.
- Add sugar, salt and vinegar to the mixture of ingredients.
- Salting for 3 hours at room temperature.
- Wash and sterilize cans.
- Fill the jars with a fragrant mixture of vegetables, close the nylon lid and place in the cold for storage.
Delicate slices of green tomatoes in a fragrant vegetable sauce are perfect as an addition to various side dishes and dishes of meat and fish. A spicy snack is not heat-treated during the cooking process, which means that all its ingredients retain their natural benefits.
Recipe "in Georgian"
Green tomatoes can be made spicy using the "Georgian" recipe. In addition to the main ingredients, it contains a large number of spices, herbs and even walnuts. The exact composition of the product is as follows: for 1 kg of tomatoes, you need to use a glass of walnuts and 10 garlic cloves. Hot peppers must be added to this dish in the amount of 0.5-1 pcs. depending on taste preferences. Dried basil and tarragon 0.5 teaspoons each, as well as dried mint and coriander seeds, 1 teaspoon each, will give the dish a unique taste and aroma. An incomplete glass (3/4) of table vinegar will help to preserve the fragrant product.
To preserve the original taste of this snack, you must strictly follow the cooking technology:
- Wash the tomatoes and pour boiling water over for 20 minutes.
- Divide the tomatoes into wedges.
- Grate walnuts with garlic and hot pepper into a homogeneous gruel. Add coriander, basil and mint with vinegar to it. If desired, salt can be added to the mixture to taste.
- Fill sterilized jars with tomatoes. Each layer of green vegetables must be shifted with spicy gruel.
- Seal the food in the jar so that the food is covered with juice on top.
- Cork jars and store in a cold place. You can eat pickles only after 1-2 weeks. At this time, the tomatoes will turn slightly yellowish.
One can only imagine how spicy and spicy the dish turns out "in Georgian", because in its classical composition it does not contain either sugar or salt. At the same time, tomatoes are perfectly stored and are beneficial for humans throughout the winter.
The hottest snack recipe
All lovers of hot food will be interested in the following recipe for cooking stuffed green tomatoes. The dish turns out to be not only very spicy, but also amazingly beautiful, however, you will have to work hard to create this culinary masterpiece.
It is recommended to cook salting in large quantities at once, because delicious tomatoes begin to disappear from the bins even before the onset of winter. So, for 1 bucket of green tomatoes you need 200 g of garlic and the same amount of hot chili peppers. You need to take a little more celery leaves, about 250-300 g. Pepper without grains, garlic and leaves must be chopped with a meat grinder. In clean tomatoes, cut out the place where the stalk is attached and remove with a knife or spoon a small volume inside the fruit. The selected part of the tomato can be cut and added to the previously prepared spice gruel. Stuff the tomatoes with the resulting mixture and put them in sterilized jars.
To prepare a brine in 5 liters of water, you need to add an equal amount of salt, sugar and vinegar (250 g each). The marinade with salt and sugar should be boiled for 5-6 minutes, at the end of cooking, add vinegar to the liquid. Fill the jars with hot marinade and preserve them.
Green tomatoes stuffed with garlic
You can stuff green tomatoes in two different ways: by partially removing the insides of the fruit, or by making an incision. Unlike the first recipe, you can stuff tomatoes with garlic through an incision. This will make salting much faster and easier.
To prepare the snack, you will need green tomatoes themselves 3 kg, garlic (5 heads) and 3-4 carrots. Garlic and carrots should be peeled and cut into slices. In pre-washed tomatoes, make 4-6 cuts, depending on the size of the fruit. Stuff the chopped tomatoes with carrot and garlic slices. At the bottom of a clean jar, put twigs or an umbrella of dill, a few inflorescences of cloves and black peppercorns. Put stuffed tomatoes on top of the spices and seasonings.
To prepare the brine, you need to boil 1 liter of water, 4 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 tbsp. l. salt. After a short boil, remove the marinade from heat and add 9% vinegar (0.5 tbsp.). After the jars are filled with marinade and vegetables, the workpiece must be sterilized for 10-15 minutes and rolled up.
The marinated product does not require special storage conditions. Even in the pantry, salting will retain its quality and taste for several years. Stuffed green tomatoes look good on the table, exude an appetizing aroma and perfectly complement all dishes on the table.
Another option for quick cooking spicy stuffed tomatoes for the winter is suggested in the video:
An illustrative example will allow every inexperienced housewife to master the basic principles and rules for making spicy pickles from green tomatoes.
To prepare a delicious preparation for the winter, you need to know a good recipe. That is why we have selected and described in detail several of the most common and proven recipes from experienced chefs. Among the variety of options presented, each housewife will be able to find the most delicious recipe for herself and her family.
