How to make tomato juice for the winter at home or delicious juice from tomatoes with pulp.

You can make homemade juice from tomatoes alone, or you can add spices, salt, sugar, garlic, celery, and bell pepper. It can be made salty, sweet or sour - whatever you want. It has long been noted that sweet juice comes from large, fleshy, overripe tomatoes, and sour juice comes from small ones. Sour is suitable for making borscht and sauces, and sweet, pleasant to the taste, is prepared as a drink. There is an opinion that you should not cook vegetables for a long time so that more nutrients remain in them. But this does not apply to tomatoes. The longer you cook them, the more anti-cancer substance called lycopene is formed.

How to prepare tomato juice with pulp for the winter.

Wash ripe and overripe tomatoes, cut off spoiled areas and set to cook over low heat. Cook until soft, about 1 hour, stirring all the time. The better the tomatoes are cooked, the less waste there will be on the sieve.

We rub the still hot tomatoes through a sieve.

Add a little salt to the resulting juice to taste, you can add spices, and cook for about 30 minutes.

Pour into clean jars or bottles and set to sterilize for 30 minutes. at t-90°C.

To prepare 1 liter of juice you will need 1.5 kg of tomatoes.

Tomato juice keeps well in the pantry.

In winter, homemade tomato juice with pulp is drunk just for fun. We also often add lemon juice to taste and drink it as a tonic drink. Prepared for the winter, it is also useful for preparing borscht, sauces, main courses, pizza...