For a long time, people argue about the belonging of tomatoes to vegetables and berries. The fact is that this plant is very ambiguous
. It has many signs characteristic of a berry. At the same time, it is difficult to attribute tomatoes to berries, since they do not have a certain berry flavor.
From the point of view of botany, tomatoes are berries
.
But it is difficult for the average person to perceive this plant in this way, so many people consider tomatoes to be vegetables. Tomatoes
are used in most salads
.
There are juices from tomatoes, as well as various sauces, for example, ketchup.
We will tell you about how to make an appetizer from tomatoes
.
Ingredients for tomato appetizer:
- Sweet pepper – 2 pcs;
- Garlic – 3 cloves;
- Vegetable oil – 100 ml;
- Apple cider vinegar 6% – 1 tbsp;
- Sugar – 2 tsp;
- Salt – tsp;
- Paprika – tsp;
- Ground black pepper – ⅓ tsp;
- Dried basil – tsp;
- Tomatoes – 4 pcs;
- Parsley – a bunch.
Preparation of tomato appetizer:
Sweet peppers need to be cleaned from the insides and cut into small pieces. Put the peppers in a blender with garlic cloves and grind to a homogeneous mass.
Pour vegetable oil and apple
cider
vinegar to the pepper. Pour sugar, salt, paprika, ground black pepper and dried basil into the mixture, stir.
Cut tomatoes into small slices, chop parsley
.
Place tomato slices in a deep container, pour the pepper mixture over them, sprinkle with parsley.
Mix the ingredients, cover with a lid and
put in
the refrigerator for an hour.
The result is an excellent appetizer of tomatoes. This appetizer can be consumed separately or put in salads.
