Tomatoes with garlic and greens for the winter

Step 1. How to make tomatoes with garlic for the winter? Prepare products on the list. The recipe is designed for about 2 liters of cans. Wash the banks and lids in advance and sterilize. How to do it right, as well as many other tricks of blanks for the winter - read in the materials on the links below the steps.

Step 2. How do you prepare vegetables? Wash the vegetables and greens thoroughly and dry. Peel and chop the onions with rings. So that the onion is not irritated by the mucous membrane, moisten the knife and bulb with ice water. Cut the tomatoes into slices, removing the place of attachment of the peduncle. Peel the garlic. Cut the hot peppers with rings. Leave the greens with whole twigs.

Step 3. How to put in the right cans of spices? At the bottom of sterile cans, put garlic, clean bay leaf, black pepper peas, hot pod pepper. On the surface of spices can always remain spores of bacteria, microscopic fungi and wild yeast, so it is important to lay them at the bottom of the jar, where the hottest layer of liquid. Boiling water instantly scalds the spices lying on the bottom and disinfects them. As it rises, the marinade gradually cools.

Step 4. How to lay tomatoes, onions and greens? Lay the tomatoes and onions in layers. In the middle of the can, make a layer of greenery. Dense, but neat laying of sliced tomatoes in layers, crossed with a harder onion, allows you to fill the jar as tightly as possible without damaging the fruits themselves. And the layer of greenery in the middle creates a second "aromatic center". When heated, essential oils from this green will diffuse both up and down, ensuring the fragrance spreads as evenly as possible throughout the can.

Step 5. How do you make a marinade? Pour boiling water into banks and leave for 10 minutes, covering with lids. This is necessary to warm up vegetables and cans and remove excess air from them. Pour water from the cans, add sugar, salt and vinegar, bring to a boil. Read more about the choice of a pan in the article on the link below the steps.

Step 6. How do you pickle tomatoes? Hot marinade, fill the tomatoes. Add to each jar a tablespoon of oil, cover with lids. Hot liquid penetrates better into the micropores of vegetables, evenly impregnating them with salt, sugar and spices. This makes the finished product more juicy and tasty, and the oil blocks the access of oxygen from the remaining air in the bank to the products.

Step 7. How do you sterilize the workpiece? In the pan for sterilization, pour hot water, put a towel or bar for sterilization, put cans. After boiling, sterilize the workpiece for about 15 minutes. After sterilization, remove cans from boiling water without lifting the lids. It is convenient to use special forceps. Twisted the lids.

Step 8. How to prepare banks for storage? Turn over the banks and wrap with a blanket for even and gradual cooling. After cooling completely, move the cans to a dark and cool place. Bon appetit!