Tomatoes in their own juice without skin. A dietary and tasty recipe - how to prepare pickled tomatoes for the winter.

For this recipe, cream tomatoes are suitable, small, oval or small round, up to 3-4 cm in diameter.

Where do we start canning tomatoes in their own juice and without skins? right, we think how to remove the skin from a tomato fast and easy.

To do this, we sort the tomatoes, wash them, and blanch them for 1-2 minutes. in boiling water and then cool under cold water. You can blanch using a colander or directly in the pan. After the tomatoes have been in hot and cold water, it is easy to remove the skin (peel).

Now, you need to know how to make tomato juice. We will prepare it separately. We will make it from the remaining tomatoes that were not suitable in size or for other reasons. These may be large, overripe, bruised fruits.

Preparing tomato juice.

We wash the prepared tomatoes several times in water, discard the stems, damaged areas from diseases and sunburn, with herbs, cut into pieces and boil until soft. Rub the cooled contents of the pan through a sieve to separate the skin and seeds from the juice.

Add salt to it, maybe bay leaf, black pepper and boil. To prepare a marinade from tomato juice, 1 liter of juice will require 20-30 g of salt. The tomato juice for the marinade is ready.

Now, we need to make our preparation faster, since the shelf life of the juice is 1 hour. Then the juice begins to ferment. If we want to pickle a large number of tomatoes, then the juice will have to be prepared in several stages.

We continue cooking further. Place the tomatoes without skins in clean jars and fill them to the top with hot juice. We set to sterilize full jars at t-110°C: 0.5 liters – 5-8 minutes, 1 liter – 10-12 minutes.

Important: To increase the boiling point of water at home to 108-110°C, you need to add about 2 tbsp to a pan of boiling water. spoons of salt.

Tomatoes in their own juice according to this recipe taste like fresh. And although tomato juice and salt (without vinegar) act as a preservative, they are stored for a long time. This recipe for preparing tomatoes is good because there is no waste - the tomatoes are eaten and the juice is drunk.