A rich harvest from your favorite garden does not always bring joy: sometimes it is impossible to quickly eat everything that keeps up with it. It becomes a shame if vegetables, in particular tomatoes, begin to deteriorate. But fresh vitamin salads are bored with them, and it is not interesting to salt them completely. Do not despair, because there is a solution to this problem, you just need to spend a little free time on it. In this article, I would like to offer several ideas on how to cook the most delicious snacks for the winter from tomatoes. Their basis, however, is taken not only tomatoes, but also other vegetables, herbs for a variety of tastes. Efforts to prepare the proposed snacks will have to be made relatively little, but in the cold season there is always something to pamper with relatives and guests. Many experienced housewives should probably know what kind of tomato snacks for the winter (the recipes of which can be modified by them) their family will like.
Most popular cooking method
This classic winter and pepper appetizer made from peppers and tomatoes is ideal for those who value simplicity and don't like spending half a day in the kitchen rolling cans. It turns out to be moderately thick and aromatic vegetable stew, universal in terms of combining it with other products. So, you will need the following ingredients:
- 3 kilograms of tomatoes (ripe and red);
- 1 kilogram of onion;
- a kilogram of carrots;
- kilogram of bell pepper.
The cooking process is simple. Three carrots on a grater, chop the onion in half rings, and cut the tomatoes and pepper arbitrarily into slices. We combine them together and cook over low heat, adding sugar and salt to taste to the vegetable mixture , a little more than half a glass of oil (sunflower). Boil the snack you need one and a half to two hours, not forgetting to add at the end of 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vinegar (for workpieces it is better to buy 70 percent). Arrange the finished dish in hot clean jars, roll up and remove to cool in a warm place. It remains to wait for winter, so that together with the family to taste such a simple, but mouth-watering assortment of garden gifts.
Those who prefer more hearty appetizers for the winter from tomatoes will come to the aid of rice (steamed long-grain, as a rule). So, in the middle of cooking, add two glasses of washed and boiled until half-cooked cereal. Very tasty!
Tomatoes with cucumbers - the best union
Snack for the winter of cucumbers and tomatoes "Lyubava" to your attention. This salad includes:
- cucumbers - about 2 kilograms;
- 2 kg of tomatoes (the most ripe);
- a kilogram of sweet salad pepper;
- a kilogram of onion;
- a bunch of greens (to your taste).
We cut all the vegetables into circles, and finely chop the greens. Add to the resulting company half a liter of sunflower oil, 1 tsp. 70% vinegar essence, five tbsp. l sugar and two tbsp. l salt. We mix everything, after which we leave the mixture for half an hour so that the vegetables let the juice and insist. We set it to cook for an hour. We spread the hot appetizer in sterilized jars, it is preferable to take half-liter for storage. We roll them up and leave them for the night, wrapping them in something that retains heat for smooth cooling.
In addition to “Lyubava”, you can take on the arsenal of an alternative and no less tasty option for cooking vegetable delicacies. Snack (for the winter) from cucumbers and tomatoes "Gourmet" is offered to your attention.
This puff salad will remind you of the colorful and sunny summer and will give a serving of vitamins on a cold winter or autumn day. It is worth noting that it is definitely worth it to let all overgrown cucumbers that were rejected for pickling. It is better to lay out the finished snack on liter or half liter cans, depending on the number of eaters in the family. In each of them we pour vegetable oil: in liter 1 tbsp. l., in half-liter, respectively, ½ tbsp. l In equal proportions, we cut cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce and onions in equal proportions, laying them right away in banks in thin alternating layers.
Now you need to prepare the fill. In 3.5 cups of water we put two tablespoons. l granulated sugar, omit the generous art. l table salt and half a glass of 9% vinegar. Bring the marinade to a boil, then immediately pour the vegetables. About seven to ten minutes, depending on the capacity of the can, sterilize them and roll them up. Turn over each jar and take to a warm place for a day.
Similar appetizer with gherkins
At the bottom of half-liter cans, lay out the spices with which you usually canned foods. Cut small tomatoes and strong cucumbers (gherkins) across, into circles. Combine them in one dish and mix thoroughly, and then fill them with cans. Marinade is proposed to them unusual: in 1 liter of water you have to mix 1 can of tomato paste (400-450 g), add two tbsp. l salt, almost a full glass of sugar. Boil everything together. Without letting the pour cool down, immediately fill it with the tomato-cucumber mixture, sterilize the jars for ten minutes. Roll them up with metal covers. It turns out a deliciously tasty tomato appetizer for the winter, combined with crispy cucumbers. You can consider this option, when cucumbers and tomatoes in a similar filling are prepared separately.
Green tomatoes are also a delicacy!
If you have never heard of salads with unripened tomatoes before and have not tried anything like this - you should certainly catch up. Below are some recipes with this vegetable in the title role.
What is the most delicious green tomato snack for the winter? Salad Recipes "Uslada", "By Standard" and "Green Light" at your service.
If there are not enough red tomatoes, and the green ones are not in a hurry to blush, we will start processing both of them. The cooking process "Delights" is as follows:
- We cut into slices 2 kilos of green tomatoes and 1 kg of red.
- Add 1 kg of onion, shredded in half rings.
- 1 kg of coarsely grated carrots.
- 1 kg sweet pepper, cut into rings.
- Sugar sand will need 200 grams, and salt - 2 large tbsp. l
- Pour a glass of oil (vegetable) and mix everything properly.
- We put the future appetizer on a moderate fire to cook for one hour, stir regularly.
- At the end of the preparation, we introduce a teaspoon of vinegar (70%) into it.
- While still hot, we fill it with sterilized jars, close them with lids and leave them overnight, wrapping them in warm clothes to preserve heat.
Many have long loved this particular appetizer of tomatoes (for the winter). "Real jam!" - so speak of her. Unripe tomatoes in it appear moderately juicy and fragrant. Cooking Plan:
- Select the same small green tomatoes, rinse and cut each one.
- Inside a single vegetable, place a leaf of parsley and a plate of garlic (not the whole clove). Fill them with liter jars.
- Now it's the marinade. On a liter of water we put 1 tbsp. l common salt, 2 tbsp. l granulated sugar and half tsp. vinegar. Boil the resulting mixture. Pour hot marinade into tomatoes.
- Wait 15 minutes, then drain the brine back into the pan and bring it to a boil again, pour into banks again. It remains to roll them up, turn them over and wrap them in warm clothes until they cool completely.
Even the most sophisticated salads and tomato snacks for the winter can not be compared with the "Green Light". This dish resembles a sweet lecho, in which tomatoes give a special flavor and uniqueness to the dish. It should be prepared as follows:
- First, prepare the vegetables. Grind 2.5 kg of juicy scarlet tomatoes in a blender or meat grinder.
- We select 2 kg of green ones (it is better to take the smallest ones), since they are used entirely.
- 3 kg of lettuce pepper cut into slices up and down.
- In this recipe, bitter pepper is mandatory (zest of the snack) - 30 with a small gram, chop it finely.
- We will do the same with 4 bunches of parsley.
- Grind 300 grams of garlic. We mix everything.
- Now in a large saucepan we are preparing a marinade, which will require: half a liter of pure water, two tbsp. l vinegar (6%), 4 large tablespoons of salt and almost a whole glass of sugar, as well as one and a half glasses of oil (sunflower).
- Bring the ingredients together together to a boil and carefully lower the prepared vegetable mixture there.
- We boil for about fifteen minutes, constantly disturbing. Quickly put the finished vegetables in sterilized jars, but do not remove them in the heat. On the contrary, you need to cool the finished product and store it in the cold.
It turned out quite an unusual, but uncomplicated snack of green tomatoes for the winter. The recipes of these three methods of pickling this vegetable are the most popular and approved by many talented housewives.
On a note
Mistresses trying to find an original way to cook a tomato snack for the winter can use the following.
- In pouring one liter of water will correspond a glass of sugar, two tbsp. l salt and four tablespoons of oil (ordinary vegetable), a tablespoon of 70% vinegar.
- In boiling marinade we spread sliced bell pepper.
- Cook it from the moment of boiling exactly 7 minutes.
- Then we take out the vegetable with a slotted spoon, put the pepper as densely as possible in half-liter jars (pre-sterilized).
- Add 3-4 small cloves of garlic to each, add the marinade to the top, roll up.
- We remove the banks until they cool completely into heat.

And the marinade remaining after cooking pepper is used for pouring tomatoes. We pierce with a fork or a toothpick and put into sterilized jars. Add the cloves and allspice by the piece , fill everything with the same brine, boiling it. We wait a quarter of an hour, then pour the marinade into the pan, heat it again on the fire and refill the cans with it. Roll up and put away in a fur coat for slow cooling. Many admit that this tomato snack for the winter is "lick your fingers", not otherwise! Pickle is especially praised with its harmonious aftertaste left by pepper.
Fragrant appetizer of tomatoes with garlic for the winter
Seasoning is very simple and understandable even to a beginner in canning products. Usually, all tomato snacks for the winter, recipes of which are offered in various cookbooks, online forums, prescribe the use of various spices, but this one does not provide for them.
- To prepare a marinade for 3 liters of pure water, take 3.5 tbsp. l table salt without a hill and 12 tbsp. l sugar without a hill.
- Stick a clove of garlic in each tomato.
- We put the tomatoes as densely as possible in sterilized jars, pour the marinade just removed from the fire into them.
- After waiting 15 minutes, pour the brine into a pan, boil, and finally pour the tomatoes.
- Do not forget about vinegar. For one three-liter jar is designed 1 tbsp. l vinegar (70%).
- Sprinkle tomatoes on top with red pepper, roll up.
Ideal seasoning for dumplings
This appetizer of tomatoes with garlic for the winter should not be left without attention. By the way, in addition to dumplings, it will be well combined with pasta, meat dishes and even simple bread.
Prepare the following ingredients:
- 5 kilograms of red ripe tomatoes.
- 1 kg of sweet pepper.
- 350 grams of garlic.
- 300 grams of dill.
- 200-250 grams of parsley.
- 2 stack oil (sunflower).
Separately, we pass the vegetables through a meat grinder. Cook tomatoes for 2 hours. Then we pour in them very hot (smoke) oil. Add pepper, cook for almost an hour. Pour chopped greens, boil the mixed vegetables for another quarter of an hour. We carry out the same operation with garlic. As soon as the mixture boils, lay it on sterilized jars and roll it up. So, another delicious tomato snack for the winter will replenish the stocks of your pickled delicacies.
Proven Pepper Recipes
Salad "Unification" - this is probably the most exemplary appetizer for the winter from peppers and tomatoes. It is universal, as it improves the taste of any dish. In order for the seasoning to work out as it should, bell pepper must be red and large. And it will take him 5 kilograms.
- Pepper, rinse and cut into 4 parts.
- Grind 2.5 kilograms of tomatoes and 300 grams of garlic in a meat grinder.
- To them add 300 grams of sunflower oil; add a glass of sugar and 4 good tablespoons of salt.
- Pour chopped parsley or any other herbs, pour 1/3 cup vinegar (table).
- Put the vegetable stew on the fire and let it boil, then boil for another twenty minutes.
- Add already prepared pepper. From the moment of boiling, simmer the mixture for another 20 minutes.
- Arrange the finished dish in ready-made sterilized jars, top them up with tomato filling to the brim, roll up.
- So that winter snacks from tomatoes and peppers do not explode, you need to put the cans with them upside down and cover them with warm things.
Fried Moldavanka salad
- We cut into thin strips 2 kg of the most red, juicy tomatoes.
- 2 kilograms of onions and 2 kilograms of sweet pepper are also shred.
- Separately, fry vegetables in vegetable oil and mix.
- Add about 3-4 cloves of peeled and chopped garlic, salt to taste, season with ground red and black pepper.
- Stirring, a little stew future salad. We put them in banks (it will turn out about 8 in total), sterilize for a quarter of an hour, carefully roll up.
In the composition of the ingredients, try to include carrots cooked on the same principle.
In fact, all snacks for the winter from tomatoes can be modified and adjusted to your tastes, there are no strict restrictions. Enjoy it!
Tomatoes with pepper in their own juice
A natural and simple appetizer is ideal for those who do not have much free time. Cut the tomatoes into slices and arrange them in half-liter jars, pouring rings of bell pepper and finely chopped parsley with dill. Shake the jar so that the packing is more dense. It remains only to expose banks 15-minute sterilization - and you can roll up.
You can’t spoil a horseradish appetizer !
This appetizer of tomato for the winter with horseradish is definitely a favorite among many others, because everyone remembers what delicious sandwiches are obtained with it. For her, it is better to select the most red and even overripe tomatoes. Cooking this hot sauce is not a problem, it will take a minimum of time. So, the original tomato appetizer for the winter (with horseradish) is prepared as follows:
- We take 3 kilograms of ripe tomatoes and scroll them either in a meat grinder or in a food processor.
- We put on a gentle fire and from the moment of boiling, cook the mixture for 25 minutes, stir regularly.
- Remove the top layer from the roots of horseradish, grind them in a meat grinder or blender.
- In the same way, prepare garlic, which will need 100-120 grams, and half a kilogram of salad pepper (sweet).
- We add them with horseradish to the company to the tomatoes, mix until smooth and cook for about ten minutes. At the end, pour 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, as well as 3 tbsp. tablespoons of salt, add ground black pepper to taste.
- Distribute the seasoning in clean jars and close with metal lids.
A horseradish appetizer and tomato for the winter is also popularly called "horseradish" or "horseradish." And despite such a variety of names, its taste is unchanged. In any case, it turns out spicy and moderately vigorous, but at the same time juicy and aromatic seasoning, which they like to spread on bread, just eat with spoons, season main dishes with it, etc. Many admit that it does not compare in composition and taste characteristics with store ketchups and mayonnaise and is the undisputed leader among sauces.
Here, for example, is another option for preparing this dish without cooking. Appetizer of horseradish and tomato (for the winter) "Fiery miracle" includes the following products:
- 6-7 roots of this plant (small);
- ripe tomatoes - 2.5 kilograms;
- 3 garlic cloves;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of salt and granulated sugar;
- vinegar (9%) - 6 tbsp. l
Cooking progress:
- First of all, you need to treat the roots of horseradish, thoroughly rinsing them, soaking for an hour in plain water and then peeling with a knife.
- After that, scroll them either in a meat grinder or in a food processor.
- Sprinkle crushed horseradish with salt and forget about it for a while, allowing it to infuse.
- The line for tomatoes: they also pass through the combine, you can beat in a blender.
- Chop the garlic.
- Next, in a saucepan, combine the latter with tomato slurry and pulp from horseradish roots.
- The mixture is salt, sweeten, pour the specified amount of vinegar into it.
- After thoroughly mixing the snack, leave it in the refrigerator for a day or two.
Folds the horseradish in clean jars and closes with ordinary lids. However, it is better to store the horserador in the refrigerator, and it will stand there until the winter.