Stuffed tomatoes, recipes of which can be found in any culinary guide, are a very common snack, which is a little more difficult to cook than salads and natural vegetables. For stuffing, you can use any stuffing - vegetable, cheese, fish, shrimp ... Just room for imagination! If you have a desire to dream, you can come up with your own filling, or you can cook stuffed tomatoes, the recipes of which are already well known.
One of the most popular recipes is tomatoes stuffed with vegetables. The best for stuffing are red tomatoes of the right round shape, with a dense pulp. Tomatoes are thoroughly washed and cut off the top of them - the lid, a half centimeter thick. Then, with a teaspoon, gently scrub the middle without damaging the wall.
The filling is made from onions, vegetable greens and several root crops: carrots, celery, parsley and parsnip. Root crops are peeled, cut into strips and thrown into a frying pan with vegetable oil heated to a white haze. Onions are also peeled, chopped and fried. Wash greens, cut into pieces, mix with fried vegetables and salt. The minced meat is filled with tomatoes and covered with lids. Stuffed tomatoes recipes can be varied, pour tomato sauce, which is prepared in the same way as for stuffed peppers.
For tomato sauce use healthy ripe tomatoes, which are passed through a meat grinder. The resulting tomato mass is brought to a boil and cooked for about five minutes. Now the hot tomato mass needs to be wiped through a sieve to separate the skins and seeds. Then in the resulting mass you need to add salt, sugar and spices. To thicken the mass, add the flour fried in a dry frying pan to it. To avoid the formation of lumps, a little water is added to the flour.
All components are well mixed and boiled for 15 minutes. Jars of stuffed tomatoes are filled with ready-made sauce and put on pasteurization in a container of hot water. Half-liter cans pasteurize 70 minutes, liter - 120 minutes. After pasteurization, the jars are immediately rolled up and put on the cover under the covers until they are completely cooled.
Many families make stuffed tomatoes for the winter for each family. But for some popular recipes that everyone loved, names were fixed, for example, tomatoes Fingers lick a recipe which contains the following ingredients:
* tomatoes - 2-3 kilograms
* onion - 1 piece
* garlic - 1 head
* vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
* parsley
Marinade is prepared as follows: for one liter of water you need to take 50 milliliters of 9% vinegar, one and a half tablespoons of salt, 3 tablespoons of sugar, bay leaf, allspice and peas - 1 teaspoon each.
Chop parsley and put in prepared liter jars. Add garlic and one tablespoon of calcined vegetable oil. Tomatoes are washed thoroughly and pierced in the peduncle with a toothpick. They do this so that they are better saturated with marinade and do not crack. Tomatoes are better to take medium, but if you get large ones, you can cut them into two parts. Onions are cut into rings and laid on top of tomatoes.
The marinade needs to be brought to a boil, add vinegar and hot pour into jars. A liter jar of marinade will require half a liter, for a three-liter jar - 1.5 liters. Banks put on pasteurization for 12-15 minutes, depending on the size of the banks. Pasteurized cans are rolled up and wrapped until cool.
The marinade in this recipe is so delicious that it is usually drunk first, and tomatoes are eaten after.
Italian pasta-recipe with tomatoes is easily prepared at home, like many other recipes with tomatoes. Do not forget that everyone knows and such familiar tomatoes contain many biologically active substances that have a beneficial effect on the human body.