As you know, cinnamon is a classic spice that is usually used to give different dishes a special taste and aroma. Coffee is brewed with it, and is also used for home baking and the preparation of various confectionery mixtures. But the possibilities of cinnamon are not limited to this. It turns out that this fragrant component can also be used for conservation. For example, the simplest tomatoes with cinnamon acquire an original taste and unusual aroma. For the winter, you can cook many interesting dishes from these familiar vegetables.
Salted tomatoes
The easiest option is salted tomatoes with cinnamon. Making them is not at all difficult. A minimum set of products is required for work:
5 kilograms of fresh tomatoes 4 grams of ground cinnamon and 10 leaves of laurel.
For brine:
60 grams of ordinary edible salt per liter of water.
Cook tomatoes with cinnamon as follows:
- First, vegetables should be sorted out, setting aside rotted or damaged fruits.
- Then they must be thoroughly washed.
- Pack them tightly in clean, pre-sterilized jars.
- Pour boiling water over the food. Leave them in this position for about 20 minutes. Then the water must be drained using a special nozzle with holes.
- Repeat this procedure three times.
- After final pouring, boil water again, adding salt, cinnamon and lavrushka. The brine should cook over medium heat for at least 6-7 minutes.
- Pour the prepared mixture into tomatoes and immediately roll up.
Cool tomatoes with cinnamon should gradually. To do this, you first need to turn the banks upside down, and then wrap them tightly with a warm blanket.
Spiced jam
Russian housewives during the harvesting period use tomatoes mainly for pickling, preservation, as well as cooking all kinds of salads and lecho. Many of them do not even suspect that the most common tomatoes with cinnamon for the winter can be made in the form of fragrant spicy jam. To do this, you will need:
780 grams of tomatoes, 35 milliliters of lime juice, a teaspoon of grated ginger root and ground cumin, 120 grams of sugar, a small piece of hot chili pepper, a quarter teaspoon of ground cloves and cinnamon.
The process of making such a jam is extremely simple:
- The first step is to pour tomatoes over with boiling water and carefully peel them.
- Chop the remaining flesh and fold into a saucepan.
- Add all ingredients provided for in the recipe.
- Boil the mixture over low heat for 75 minutes. During this time, the mass should thicken.
- Pour hot jam into clean jars and seal them with metal lids.
Anyone who at least once tasted such a treat will certainly want to cook it again.
Unusual marinade
Pickled tomatoes have long become a familiar dish on the table of every Russian family. However, all the housewives cook them in different ways. Those who like to experiment, can be advised to make original tomatoes with cinnamon. The recipe is unique in its simplicity and unusual composition. To prepare the marinade you will need:
per liter of water 60 grams of salt, parsley, 15 grams of vinegar, 1 centimeter of cinnamon sticks, 150 grams of sugar and one chili pepper.
For this method of conservation, the already familiar technique is used:
- Wash the small tomatoes and put them in banks. Containers with lids must not be forgotten to sterilize first.
- Pour the vegetables with water and leave for 5 minutes.
- During this time, you can cook marinade. First, boil water in a pan, and then add sugar, salt and boil it for a couple of minutes.
- Pour the cooled liquid from the cans.
- First, add a spoonful of vinegar to each container, and then pour everything with hot marinade.
- Roll up cans, turn over (to check their tightness), wrap well and leave to cool.
The result is sweet tomatoes with an original aroma (from cinnamon) and a slight pungency in taste (from pepper).