Salads of green tomatoes for the winter (pictured below) - this is an excellent dish that is suitable as a snack for any feast. Cooking such a dish can be quite simple. You do not need to complete special courses and have many skills.
The charm of the appetizer is that for its preparation requires green tomatoes, which did not have time to ripen in the beds. Although many believe that because of this, the fruits become worthless.
Let's consider several options thanks to which you can make very tasty salads of green tomatoes, as well as some features of cooking snacks on them.
Features of the preparation of salads
A huge number of professional cooks and simple housewives often share their secrets regarding the preparation of appetizers in the form of tomato salads, which did not have time to ripen.
First of all, you should pay attention to the fact that the fruits used as ingredients are not affected by any diseases. If you ignore this fact, you can get a bitter salad of green tomatoes. Such a dish will be spoiled.
How to determine that a vegetable is affected by a disease? This can be easily seen when it is cut into pieces: inside it will be wrinkled and, in some cases, blackened.
Also, most specialists in the field of cooking do not recommend purchasing green fruits in the market. Practice shows that the most delicious dish is obtained from vegetables grown in your own garden. Some housewives, who are fans of cooking salads of green tomatoes for the winter, specially grow them in order to remove them from the bushes while they are still immature.
For cutting the main ingredients for the salad, it is advisable to use the sharpest knife, since the leakage of juice in the process is undesirable. For this purpose, you can use a tool designed for slicing fruits, which has a peculiar shape and type of sharpening.
As for the container, it must be sterilized before laying the ingredients in it. Covers must also be machined. For example, they can be kept in boiling water for a certain time.
Classic recipe
To prepare a delicious salad of green tomatoes for the winter, you can use this simple classic recipe. It is based on the use of a minimum set of ingredients and the application of standard skills in the field of cooking.
To prepare a delicious salad, you need to take the desired amount of green tomatoes, wash them thoroughly and cut into quarters.
In a separate bowl, boil a liter of water. It should add a tablespoon of vinegar, a couple of spoons of sugar and salt, as well as two bay leaves and a few peas of allspice. Practice shows that different amounts of tomatoes require different amounts of marinade. How to choose the right amount of fluid?
In this matter, experienced housewives recommend orienting themselves on the amount of the main ingredient: the ratio should be approximately 1: 1.
After the marinade begins to boil, it is necessary to send pre-chopped tomatoes to it. In this form, they should be blanched for about a couple of minutes, and then removed, laying out on prepared banks. Boil the brine again, and then pour it into jars with the contents so that the liquid completely covers the mass.
In winter, you can open conservation and use tomatoes as a snack. You can add all a couple of ingredients to the salad so as not to spoil the taste of the main vegetable.
Korean Tomatoes
Many representatives of the Russian population are very fond of seeing Korean-style green tomato salad on their tables. Ready-made appetizer has a pungent flavor, which is especially captivating fans of spicy dishes.
To prepare a salad of green tomatoes in this way, you need to take a kilogram of the main ingredient, wash it and chop it into slices. To tomatoes, add large-sized bell pepper, sliced into slices, as well as a bunch of your favorite greens (cilantro, dill and parsley are great). All components should be mixed. After that, 5-6 crushed garlic cloves, a tablespoon of salt and twice as much sugar should be added to the vegetables. All of these ingredients must once again be thoroughly mixed and allowed to infuse for five minutes.
In the meantime, you can cook spices. To do this, heat a quarter glass of vegetable oil in a deep frying pan and send half a teaspoon of pepper mixture to it. The resulting gravy must be seasoned with salad, after which it must be sprinkled with a quarter glass of table vinegar.
After thorough mixing, the vegetable mass must be distributed over the banks and, pouring juice, roll under the lid.
"Hunting appetizer"
This recipe (with photo) of green tomato salad will surely captivate all fans of the original appetizers. It perfectly complements meat prepared in any way.
To prepare the original snack, you need to take half a kilogram of green tomatoes, wash them and cut into strips or halves. The same thing must be done with the same amount of fresh cucumbers and bell peppers. In the resulting vegetable mass, add chopped a couple of carrots and two onion heads (small size). Now the ingredients must be mixed until smooth.
After preliminary preparations, half the head of garlic, the cloves of which must be crushed, a small amount of parsley, as well as salt and the desired spices to taste, must be added to the resulting mixture. Mix the products again and let them brew for 40-50 minutes. During this time, juice should stand out.
After the specified time, you need to put the pot with the contents on a slow fire and wait for the moment when the mass begins to heat up (it is not necessary to bring to a boil). When this happens, add 10 tablespoons of sunflower oil and vinegar to the vegetables.
The finished salad should be tightly arranged in small jars and pour the juice that stood out during the infusion. A salad of green tomatoes can be rolled up under the covers. Before this, the jars can be sterilized in a water bath for 15 minutes.
Sour salad
Fans of sour dishes will definitely like this recipe for green tomato salad. To prepare it, you need to take a kilogram of the main ingredient. Tomatoes should be washed and cut into circles, making slices across. The thickness of each layer should be about a centimeter. Separately, grate a pound of carrots, crush a couple of heads of garlic with a crush, and also manually tear a bunch of parsley.
After preparations, all the ingredients must be folded into one deep dish, making it layers. For starter culture, it is best to use an enameled basin. Each layer of vegetable should be sprinkled with a small amount of salt. At the end of the spreading, it is necessary to cover the mass with oppression and leave it in this form for a day. Practice shows that you do not need to put vegetables in the refrigerator. At room temperature for a certain time they will have time to let the juice, which will be required during the preservation process.
After the allotted time, it is necessary to remove the oppression and immediately drain the brine into a separate bowl. Now the vegetables should be laid out in prepared jars of small volume so that they are very tightly packed, and there is a distance of about a couple of centimeters to the neck.
In a pre-marinated marinade, add half a glass of table vinegar and a third of sunflower oil. The resulting sauce must be put on low heat and bring to a boil. Boil for 10 minutes, after which the sauce must be filled in jars so that it completely covers the vegetables.
Before rolling under the covers, the green tomato salad must be sterilized for half an hour.
With cabbage
Another option for making an appetizing winter snack is a tomato salad cooked with cabbage. When preserving green tomatoes with salad, you need to know that for making snacks you need to take a couple of kilograms of brown, but very dense fruits. They will give the finished appetizer the most pleasant taste.
To create a salad for the winter according to this recipe, you need to take a couple of kilograms of cabbage and chop it very finely the same as for the leaven. After that, it should be mashed properly, so that juice can stand out from the vegetable. After this procedure, add to the cabbage sliced tomatoes, which have not yet ripened (2 kg). A kilogram of sweet bell pepper should be chopped into thin half rings and also sent to vegetables.
The resulting mixture must be properly salted (3 tablespoons), stirred until all ingredients are evenly distributed. In this form, leave the vegetables in the refrigerator overnight.
After the allotted time, you should separately prepare a kilogram of ripe tomatoes, which must be scrolled through a meat grinder or carefully chopped in any other convenient way. After that, send the tomatoes to the vegetable mixture, then add one and a half kilograms of grated carrots and a kilogram of onion cut in half rings.
After all the vegetables have been combined, pour a glass of table vinegar into the mass, and also pour the same amount of sugar. Now the container with vegetables must be put on a slow fire and bring the contents to a boil. Constantly mixing, the vegetables should be simmered on the stove for 15-20 minutes. After this time, the hot mass should be decomposed into pre-prepared jars, pouring brine to the salad, which stood out from the ingredients. Now cans can be rolled up under iron covers and sent to the cellar (after cooling).
"Danube"
A delicious salad of green tomatoes can be prepared by strictly following all the recommendations indicated in this recipe. To prepare a snack salad, you should take a kilogram of dense green tomatoes, wash them and, having removed all unnecessary elements, cut them into slices.
To them should be added crushed hot peppers (100 g) and three bell peppers chopped in the same way. Vegetables should be sent to the marinade and cook in it for 15 minutes.
For a salad for the winter from green tomatoes according to the recipe proposed here, you must first prepare the marinade, made on the basis of tomato juice. For it, you need to pour a liter of juice in a container, add 150 ml of sunflower oil and a third glass of vinegar to it. The mixture should be salt with two tablespoons of salt, add 3-3.5 tbsp. l sugar, as well as three crushed heads of garlic. The mass should be mixed and boiled over low heat.
After the ready salad boils, it must be laid out in previously prepared cans and rolled under the lids.
Tomato and Plum Salad
A great option for a winter snack is a salad of green tomatoes (pictured below), with the addition of plums and pepper.
For its preparation, you should prepare a kilogram of brown tomatoes, wash them and cut them into circles of medium thickness. 300 grams of carrots need to be peeled and cut into half rings, and four plums, from which seeds should first be removed, must be sliced. Separately, chop rings or halves of 600 grams of bell pepper, which must be washed before and remove seeds from it.
We put all the prepared components in one dish. To them you need to add a couple of tablespoons of salt, as well as three tablespoons of honey, which, if desired, can be replaced with half a glass of sugar.
To the ingredients you need to pour a little more than half a glass of vegetable oil, add a small amount of crushed hot peppers and mix thoroughly. To the vegetable mass, add a pinch of curry spices and mustard powder. This is necessary to give the salad a more piquant taste. In this form, the appetizer should be left for 20-30 minutes at room temperature, and then sent to stew on a slow fire.
The cooking process should be continued for half an hour. After the allotted time, the mass must be decomposed into pre-sterilized banks, pouring the allocated juice.
Green Tomato and Cucumber Salad
To prepare an excellent snack, you should take a pound of unripe tomatoes, wash them and cut into quarters. The same thing must be done with the same number of young zucchini and a kilogram of fresh cucumbers. 500 grams of apples should be cut into slices and also combine with the above ingredients.
200 grams of peeled garlic cloves should be added to vegetables and apples, which must be chopped very finely with a knife or chopped with a special crush. Of all the components, a homogeneous mass should be created, which must be put on a slow fire to extinguish. After the contents reach a boiling state, it must be boiled for another 10 minutes.
After that, the salad should be laid out in previously sterilized jars and rolled up under metal lids.
With eggplant
The recipe for a salad of green tomatoes with eggplant will definitely appeal to those hostesses who prefer to surprise their households and invited guests with delicious and original dishes, as well as additions to them.
To prepare such an appetizer, you should take one kilogram of eggplant, green tomatoes, and bell pepper. You need to wash the vegetables, remove all unnecessary parts from them, and then cut them into circles.
As for the eggplant, they must be fried in a hot pan with the addition of vegetable oil. In order to eliminate its specific taste from a vegetable, you can first soak it in water with a tablespoon of salt dissolved in it. After 15 minutes, the eggplants should be removed, dried and then cooked as described.
After all preparations, vegetables (except eggplant) must be combined in one large bowl, add onion (500 g), cut into half rings, and then fry all the ingredients needed for the salad over low heat. Stew them for 40 minutes, after which the mass should be laid out in a bowl for cooking, add eggplant to them, salt with a couple of tablespoons of salt, and then pour 60 ml of vinegar.
After thorough mixing, all the ingredients must be laid out in previously sterilized jars and rolled up under metal lids.