Tomatoes in tomato paste with garlic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. This snack can be made using factory-made tomato paste, but it will turn out much tastier if you cook it with homemade tomato paste.

2. Step 2:

   

   Let's start with cooking vegetables. Tomatoes need ripe, but dense and strong. My vegetables. Let the water drain from them.

3. Step 3:

   

   Those tomatoes that we will use to make tomato paste are cut into quarters, put in a saucepan. Onions are cleaned and cut into large pieces. We send the onion to the tomatoes, pour half a cup of water into the pan. Bring to a boil, turn down the heat, simmer on medium heat under the lid for about 15 minutes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Then we grind the mass with a blender into a puree, the peel from the tomato will gather on the surface, take it out. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1.5 teaspoons of salt to the tomato paste. Stir and cook for about an hour over medium heat, stirring the contents of the pan periodically. Tomato paste should boil almost five times. Add 70 ml of table vinegar and cook for about 5 minutes from the moment of boiling. Tomato paste is ready.

5. Step 5:

   

   We turn to the preparation of tomatoes. It is better to use small tomatoes for rolling. Tomatoes are pierced in several places with a toothpick so that they do not burst.

6. Step 6:

   

   My bell pepper, remove the seeds, cut into rings.

8. Step 7:

   

   Peel the garlic, cut the cloves into several large pieces or plates.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour tomato paste and water into a saucepan, put it on fire, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 teaspoons of salt, a few peas of black pepper, allspice, a couple of bay leaves. Bring the mixture to a boil. Cook for about 5 minutes. Banks need to be sterilized in advance in any convenient proven way: in a water bath, in the oven or microwave. The lids are washed and boiled.

10. Step 9:

    

    Lay out the vegetables tightly in pre-sterilized jars, alternating them with each other. Immediately pour boiling marinade tomatoes in jars, up to the shoulders of cans.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cover them with lids on top and sterilize them in the oven for about 15 minutes with a 0.5 l jar, or in a water bath.

12. Step 11:

    

    Roll up the jars with lids. turn it upside down, cover it with a blanket and let it cool down. We put it away for storage in the pantry. Bon appetit!