There are complex dishes, there are simple ones, but there are also the most simple ones. And their recipes occupy their place of honor in the culinary notebook of every housewife who is actively involved in cooking! Just such can be reliably attributed a tomato salad with onions. Probably even a child-cook can cook this dish, if, of course, he wants to tinker a bit in the kitchen. And even more so an adult home chef. And all because the two main ingredients present in this tomato and onion salad are year-round for sale both in the market and in the supermarket. And in the harvest season there are generally pennies.
A little about the benefits and taste
Well what can I say: such a simple vegetable dish - a salad of tomatoes with onions - will be useful in the “open” version, as a great addition to any table on weekdays and on holidays. In addition, it is full of usefulness contained in these vegetables (especially in the summer and autumn time of the year). Do you know that ordinary onion is a natural alimentation, that is, a product literally stuffed with easily digestible trace elements and vitamins, a natural preparation that has a powerful antitumor effect. And in conjunction with tomatoes and spices, it forms a synergy - that is, all the properties of vegetables, when combined, become more powerful.
In addition, this wonderful and healthy dish can be closed and prepared for the cold season. The procurement process is also very easy to handle. And jars with delicious contents - from the "opened and eat" series, you do not need to add anything else. And you can use these canned food as a dressing for other, more complex dishes (for example, for vegetable soups, stews, borscht) - so that the exit of imagination and its implementation are provided for one hundred percent. Well, are you ready to start? Then let's go!
Tomatoes with onions: salad recipe (basic)
The second stage - preservation of tomato salad with onions - will be considered by us a little later, and now - a fresh recipe "in the studio"! We will need to take: fresh tomatoes and onions in a ratio of two to one (that is, for example, for one kilogram of tomatoes - a pound of onion), fresh greens to decorate the dish when served (sprigs of dill, feather of green onions), salt , lean oil (it is better to take olive or linseed) for dressing.
Cooking as simple as five cents
- I wash my tomatoes and cut off the unnecessary: rot, bruising. Some people prefer peeled tomatoes. To do this, they need to be scalded with boiling water after washing - so the peel will be removed quite easily. Some also like to peel seeds. This procedure usually prevents the salad from draining if it is left standing, that is, a minimum of juice is formed.
- Cut the tomatoes into slices or semicircles - as you like.
- Peel the onion from the top peel, cut into thin half rings. You can slightly crush it with salt and pepper, pour the marinade and squeeze. Then let stand, and marinate after draining. So the bitterness disappears. But you can not resort to a similar procedure.
- Mix both ingredients pre-prepared in a large bowl. Season the salad with a spoon of vegetable oil (but you don’t need to fill it at all). We add to taste (use the so-called Himalayan salt - it is full of trace elements, but you can use kitchen stone or sea). Pepper with a mixture of peppers (more carefully, salt is also included in some formulations - so that you do not salt 2 times).
- Tomato salad with onions in its fresh form is ready to eat. You can serve it on the table - it is advisable to eat immediately, because after standing, the salad becomes watery. But usually there is no problem with this: guests or homeworkers require more and more supplements!
Tomato salad with onions for the winter
Many homemade preserves prepared in the cold season contain tomatoes and onions. And every housewife has her own “festooned” recipes, without which the “supply vault” cannot be called complete.
We need: strong tomatoes - 5 pounds, onions - 2.5 pounds, parsley, allspice (a bag of peas), black pepper (similar), cloves in buds, salt with sugar plus vinegar and vegetable oil.
How to close
- Wash my tomatoes thoroughly (they, we recall, should be as solid as possible). Cut the tomatoes into slices (it is better to cut along).
- Peel the onion and cut into half rings (it is better if the bulbs are quite large or at least medium in size).
- Mix the two main vegetable ingredients in a large container.
- In half-liter jars, previously washed, we put several sheets of laurel, several peas of allspice and black pepper, a couple of buds of cloves.
- We put tomatoes with onions in the container, slightly tamping. And top with a small spoonful of salt and sugar - for each jar. Fill with water.
- After we put the jars to be sterilized, for 10-15 minutes from the moment of boiling.
- A couple of minutes before the final sterilization in boiling water, add a spoonful of oil and a spoonful of vinegar to each dish.
- We roll the lids in the hot state, then turning them upside down and cover them with a warm blanket so that they cool not gradually, but gradually. If you want, for example, to make this preparation low-calorie, you can reduce the rate of lean oil, or even completely eliminate this ingredient from the recipe by dropping a couple of drops into each jar. Then this food certainly does not harm the figure. A tomato salad with onions, prepared for the winter, will take one of the first places on the winter table.
In layers
And now for the variations. You can thus arrange the salad in jars: a layer of tomatoes, a layer of onions, then repeat this construction several times. In principle, this cooking option is practically no different from the previous recipe - only in appearance. But some housewives, defending their opinion, argue that with this method, the rings (or half rings) of the onion are separated by tomatoes, and the ingredient itself has a less sharp taste. What can I say: you can always cook part of the product in the first, and part in the second way. And then, opening the jars, compare the taste and aromatic properties of both blanks. But a tomato salad with onions and butter will remain no less healthy and tasty in either case. So feel free to experiment, show your imagination as a culinary specialist, suddenly you will be able to invent your own, no less interesting version of the conservation popular among the people, who knows. Yes, and bon appetit to all of you!