Recipes for preserving sweet tomatoes for the winter: canned, pickled, salted
If you can't decide which of the homemade options to give your preference to, make several jars from each recipe. Each of them is slightly different from the other, so you have a wonderful chance to try some completely different tasting homemade tomatoes.
Canned Sweet Tomatoes
The easiest way to prepare vegetables is to preserve them. Salting sweet tomatoes for the winter in cans saves space in the pantry - preservation is perfectly stored at room temperature.
Ripe tomatoes should be washed well and placed in jars. Since tomatoes have enough acid of their own, you do not need to add vinegar.
You can put parsley or dill seeds in the bottom of the jar, but the easiest way is to add nothing.
Dissolve the salt in water, pour the hot brine over the jars and place them in the oven, airfryer or a regular pot of water. It is enough to sterilize liter jars for 15 minutes, after which they need to be rolled up. You can try such tomatoes as soon as they cool, but it is better to stand for two to three weeks.
Sweet pickled tomatoes
Marinades are always prepared with vinegar or acid. If you don't like the bite, you can replace it with lemon juice or a few grains of citric acid.
The recipe for sweet tomatoes for the winter is very simple and quick - tomatoes prepared in this way do not require sterilization.
Ripe, but not soft tomatoes need to be sorted out well - remove the damaged ones and wash.
Sprigs of fresh dill (you can replace them with dried seeds), wash cherry and currant leaves and put them on the bottom of the jar. Add pepper, bay leaf, garlic - no need to cut the cloves. Fill the jars with tomatoes - the smaller they are, the more they will fit.
Heat water in a kettle and pour boiling water over the prepared tomatoes.
So that sweet pickled tomatoes can be tasted after a few weeks, you can prick them with a fork and the stalks - make the punctures crosswise. These punctures will keep the tomatoes intact - they will not crack from boiling water. Leave the jars to warm up for about 10 minutes.
Pour salt and sugar into a convenient saucepan, pour in water from cans and bring to a boil.
Pour vinegar, fresh lemon juice or citric acid crystals into each jar.
Pour boiling marinade over prepared tomatoes and roll up immediately.
Turn sweet tomatoes pickled for the winter upside down and wrap in a warm cloth. After the jars have cooled, they can be turned over and stored in a cabinet or storage room.
Aromatic sweet tomatoes for the winter will be ready in a few weeks, but they will taste even better if you let them brew for several months. Bon Appetit!