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Tomatoes in snow with garlic for winter
An impressive and delicious preservation, tomatoes in snow with garlic for winter captivates with its simplicity and unconventional taste. No spices that are usually put in pickles are used here, with the only exception being garlic. Grated into fine shavings, it is beautifully distributed over the bright tomatoes, creating the illusion of a winter fairy tale.
Yield: 1 jar (with a volume of 1.5 liters) – the marinade calculation is given for 1 liter of water.
Preparation time: 40 minutes + 10 hours to cool under a blanket.
Caloric value: 35 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
- tomatoes – 900 g;
- purified water – 1 l;
- rock salt – 1 tablespoon without a heap;
- white sugar – 5 tablespoons heaping;
- vinegar essence 70% – 1 teaspoon;
- garlic – 1 large head or 1.5 medium heads.
Preparation
1. Prepare the ingredients. It is better to choose meaty and dense varieties of tomatoes, for example, the variety "plum". Only rock salt, not iodized, is suitable for preservation. Vinegar essence is added directly to the jar. Its amount is indicated for a 1.5-liter jar, and for a 3-liter jar, 1 tablespoon of vinegar essence will be needed, so now you can easily calculate its consumption for any capacity of glass containers.
2. A convenient way to sterilize the jars and boil the lids. Wash the tomatoes and select fruits of about the same size. To prevent the skin on the tomatoes from bursting when pouring boiling water, make a few punctures around the stem with a fork or toothpick.
3. Tightly pack the tomatoes in the prepared glass container, but do not press them down – if you shake the jar slightly, the fruits will fill the free spaces themselves.
4. Peel the garlic from the husk.
5. Grate the garlic on a fine grater (you can press them through a garlic press, but grating will produce a more beautiful shavings that will look magical on the tomatoes in brine).
6. Transfer the garlic shavings to the jar with tomatoes.
7. Boil clean water and pour it into the jar with the preparation.
8. Cover it with a lid. Let the tomatoes warm up for 20-25 minutes.
9. After this time, drain the water into a saucepan (the marinade will be prepared in this).
10. To ensure there is enough marinade and to make the calculation easier, add more clean water to the drained aromatic water until it reaches one liter. Add the salt and sugar here and boil everything for 30 seconds.
11. Pour the hot marinade into the jar.
12. Add a teaspoon of vinegar essence.
13. Screw on the lid, turn the jar upside down, and wrap it in a warm blanket. In the thermal bath, the preservation should stand for at least 10 hours.
It is recommended to store tomatoes in snow with garlic for winter in a cool dark place. An opened jar of such tomatoes disappears in an instant – they are just too delicious. This appetizer will diversify even the simplest meal, whether it’s potatoes or porridge. It is indeed an impressive and very delicious preservation, you must try it.
