Is it beneficial to consume pickled tomatoes, onions and other vegetables? We are often told that pickles can harm the body. But, this only happens when you consume a large amount of pickled foods at a time. In small quantities, pickled vegetables are harmless, on the contrary, they are beneficial.
For example, pickled tomatoes contain lycopene, which is important for the cardiovascular system. If you want to get rid of heart disease, eat pickled tomatoes.
About how to prepare juicy tomatoes in a marinade, let’s learn more.
Ingredients for pickled tomatoes:
- tomatoes – 2 kg;
- onions – 2 pcs;
- sweet pepper – pcs;
- garlic – 4 cloves;
- dill – 2 sprigs;
- water – liter;
- salt – 2 tbsp;
- sugar – 4 tbsp;
- 9% vinegar – 3 tbsp;
- black pepper – 5 peas;
- allspice – 5 peas;
- bay leaf – pcs.
Preparation of pickled tomatoes:
We make small and shallow cross cuts on the tomatoes, lay them out in a deep container.
Pour
boiling water over the tomatoes and wait 10 minutes.
To prepare the marinade in a pot of water pour sugar and salt, stir and bring to a boil. Add bay leaf, oregano and black pepper to the marinade. After boiling, cook the marinade for 2 minutes.
Pour vinegar into the hot marinade. Cut onion rings, peeled from the insides of sweet peppers. Cut garlic cloves into thin plates. Drain
the tomatoes, peel off the skin. Put in a bowl first onion rings, then pepper rings, garlic plates. On this vegetable pillow put tomatoes without peel
. Cut dill coarsely, lay out with onion rings and pepper rings as the second layer. Add garlic, put again peeled tomatoes.
On the top you can put what was not removed in the second layer. Cooled marinade pour the container with tomatoes, onions and peppers, cover with a flat plate, create a small press.
Leave the tomatoes to marinate for 24 hours.
This recipe for pickled tomatoes is very quick and easy. You do not need to wait for winter to taste juicy pickled tomatoes, onions and peppers.
