Soaked tomatoes in a saucepan for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare soaked tomatoes in a saucepan, take strong ripe tomatoes, dill greens, well, if it is with umbrellas, you can add cherry and black currant leaves, garlic, peppers, bay leaf, salt and sugar, and, of course, water for making brine.

2. Step 2:

   

   First prepare the brine so that it cools down a little. Boil the water and add salt and sugar to it according to the recipe. Dissolve completely and turn off the stove.

3. Step 3:

   

   Get busy preparing tomatoes. For salting, small-fruited varieties with strong, hard fruits that will not go limp from long storage and the fermentation process are suitable. Take these tomatoes, they are sold here under the name "pickled tomatoes", wash them well, put them on kitchen towels so that the water runs off.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put a layer of dill, chopped garlic cloves, peeled, add a few peas of black and allspice, bay leaf on the bottom of a cleanly washed saucepan for salting.

6. Step 5:

   

   Now it's the turn for tomatoes: each tomato needs to be pierced from the side of the stalk several times, an ordinary wooden toothpick is perfect for this.

7. Step 6:

   

   Lay the tomatoes in a layer on top of the greens, cover with dill and garlic again, lay out the second layer, and so fill the pan until all the tomatoes settle down in layers.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour the tomatoes with herbs and spices with the prepared brine, cover with a plate to crush the tomatoes, you can not put a heavy load - so that it only presses, but does not crush, so that the brine comes to the surface of the plate, covering all the tomatoes. Leave the tomatoes in the brine for 2 days in the room - after this time they will be ready in a slightly salted form.

9. Step 8:

   

   For further storage, the pan should be placed in a cold place - in the cellar, for example, covering the surface of the tomatoes with clean gauze, a small load and a lid. Or put it in the refrigerator, if the pan is small, tomatoes turn out delicious and fragrant, they are eaten very quickly.