Pickled tomatoes for instant cooking

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients for the preparation of pickled tomatoes for instant cooking. We will take a tomato that is not very large, so that it has time to pickle in a day. And dense, so that it does not fall apart in your hands after cooking it. I took dried hot pepper in small pieces, but you can also take fresh pepper, peel it from the seeds and cut it into pieces.

2. Step 2:

   

   To start, we will prepare the marinade for tomatoes. To do this, pour water into a saucepan and put it on the fire. It is best to take water not from the tap, but filtered through a cleaning system. Add sugar, salt, black and allspice to the pan. Instead of the usual allspice, I, lately, prefer Sichuan pepper. It has a more delicate aroma and taste, although it is more expensive than ordinary allspice.

3. Step 3:

   

   Bring the marinade to a boil and cook over low heat for 2-3 minutes, until the salt and sugar dissolve. Remove from the heat and pour in the vinegar, mix. Ordinary vinegar can be replaced with apple or grape vinegar.

4. Step 4:

   

   While our marinade is being prepared, we will prepare our tomatoes. To do this, peel the garlic and cut into equal slices of tomatoes. Tomatoes are washed and cut from the side of the stalk to 2/3 of the height. We will insert a cut garlic slice into each incision.

5. Step 5:

   

   Then pour a little hot pepper inside or insert a piece of fresh pepper.

7. Step 6:

   

   Wash the celery greens, disassemble them into leaves and put one in each cut. It is most convenient to do this with the blunt side of the knife, simply pressing the leaf inside. Celery can be replaced with basil or ordinary dill.

8. Step 7:

   

   We do all the tomatoes this way and put them in a deep cup.

9. Step 8:

   

   Fill the prepared tomatoes with hot marinade and put the dish on top so that it floods the tomatoes completely and does not let them float. We leave them until they cool down, and then put them in the refrigerator for one day, before cooking. Keep in mind that the larger the tomatoes, the more time they need to marinate. Then we take it out of the refrigerator, catch it with a spoon from the marinade and serve it to the table.

10. Step 9:

    

    Very tasty with hot, boiled potatoes and black bread. And if there is also a glass for appetite, then it will turn out just a fairy tale. Enjoy your meal.