How can you make tomatoes with cinnamon?
As you know, cinnamon is a classic spice,which is usually used to give different dishes a special taste and aroma. With her brewed coffee, and also used for home baking and cooking various confectionery mixtures. But on this opportunity, cinnamon is not limited. It turns out that this fragrant component can also be used for conservation. For example, the simplest tomatoes with cinnamon acquire an original taste and unusual aroma. For the winter of these familiar vegetables, you can prepare many interesting dishes.
Salted tomatoes
The simplest option is salted tomatoes with cinnamon. Doing them is not difficult. A minimum set of products is required for work:
5 kilograms of fresh tomatoes 4 grams of ground cinnamon and 10 leaves of laurel.
For brine:
per liter of water 60 grams of ordinary edible salt.
Cooking tomatoes with cinnamon should be as follows:
- First, vegetables should be sorted, putting aside rotten or damaged fruits.
- Then they need to be thoroughly washed.
- Tightly lay them in clean, pre-sterilized jars.
- Pour the products with boiling water. Leave them in this position for about 20 minutes. Then the water must be drained using a special nozzle with holes.
- Repeat this procedure three times.
- Water after the final pouring again boil, adding salt, cinnamon and laurel. Brine should be cooked over medium heat for at least 6-7 minutes.
- Prepared mixture to pour tomatoes and immediately roll up.
Cool tomatoes and cinnamon should gradually. To do this, the banks first need to turn upside down, and then tightly wrap them with a warm blanket.
Spicy jam
Russian housewives during harvesting usetomatoes mainly for pickling, preserving, and cooking all kinds of salads and lecho. Many of them do not even suspect that the most common tomatoes with cinnamon for the winter can be made in the form of a fragrant spicy jam. To do this, you will need:
780 grams of tomatoes, 35 milliliters of lime juice,a teaspoon of grated ginger root and ground cumin, 120 grams of sugar, a small slice of hot chili pepper, a quarter teaspoon of ground cloves and cinnamon.
The process of making this jam is extremely simple:
- The first thing to do is to boil tomatoes and carefully peel them off.
- The remaining flesh can optionally be cut and folded into a saucepan.
- Add all components provided by the recipe.
- Cook the mixture on low heat for 75 minutes. During this time, the mass should thicken.
- Still hot jam pour on clean jars and cork them with metal covers.
Anyone who has at least once tasted such a delicacy, will certainly want to cook it again.
Unusual marinade
Marinated tomatoes have long been habituala dish on the table for every Russian family. However, all the housewives prepare them in different ways. Fans of experimenting can be advised to make original tomatoes with cinnamon. The recipe is unique in its simplicity and unusual composition. To prepare marinade you will need:
per liter of water 60 grams of salt, parsley, 15 grams of vinegar, 1 centimeter of cinnamon sticks, 150 grams of sugar and one chili.
For this method of conservation, the usual method is already used:
- Tomatoes of small size are washed and spread on cans. Tare with the lids must not forget to pre-sterilize.
- Stir the vegetables with water and leave for 5 minutes.
- During this time, you can prepare a marinade. In a saucepan, you first need to boil the water, and then add sugar, salt and cook a couple of minutes.
- Cool the liquid from the cans to pour out.
- In each container, first add a spoonful of vinegar, and then pour everything with a hot marinade.
- Banks roll up, turn (to check their tightness), it is good to wrap and leave to cool down.
As a result, sweet tomatoes with the original aroma (from cinnamon) and an easy acuity in taste (from pepper) are obtained.