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Place the carrot tops in a saucepan, add water and cook after boiling for 10 minutes.
How to cook carrot tops with tomatoes for the winter
Products
Small tomatoes – 1 kilogram
Carrot tops – 4 pieces
Sugar – 175 grams
Salt – 60 grams
Vinegar 70% – 20 milliliters
How to pickle carrot tops with tomatoes for the winter
1. Wash tomatoes well, dry with a towel.
2. Pour the carrot tops in a bowl with water for 5 minutes to float up the debris, drain the water with the debris.
3. Wash the carrot tops well under running water.
4. Divide the carrot tops in two.
5. Put part of the carrot tops on the bottom of the sterilized jar.
6. Put the tomatoes on the tops, periodically placing the remains of the carrot tops between them.
7. Pour boiling water over tomatoes with tops in a jar – 1,2 liters of water per three-liter jar, set aside for 10 minutes without closing.
8. Drain the tomato jar into a saucepan.
9. Place a saucepan with water from a jar on high heat, boil, pour again into a jar with tomatoes for 10 minutes.
10. Drain the pot again, pour in vinegar, salt, add sugar, let the brine boil.
11. The third time – the final, pour the brine over tomatoes with carrot tops, close with sterilized lids.
How to make carrot tops with cucumbers for the winter
Products
Small cucumbers – 1,2 kilograms
Water – 2 liters
Sugar – 175 grams
Salt – 50 grams
Vinegar 9% – 120 milliliters
Carrot tops – 3 pieces
How to cook carrot tops with cucumbers for the winter
1. Wash cucumbers well, dry with napkins.
2. Pour the carrot tops in a bowl with cold water for 5 minutes to float up the debris, drain the water with the debris.
3. Wash the carrot tops well under running water, divide into three parts.
4. Put prepared carrot tops in three sterilized 1,5 liter jars.
5. Place the washed cucumbers tightly on the tops.
6. Pour cucumbers with tops of 2 liters of boiling water, set aside for 10 minutes.
7. Drain the water from the cucumbers into a saucepan, add up to two liters of boiled water as needed.
8. Pour vinegar into the water, put sugar, salt.
9. Place the pot with brine on high heat and bring to a boil.
10. Pour cucumbers with tops with brine, close with sterilized lids.
11. Wrap the jars with a blanket or blanket so that they cool down gradually.
Delicious facts
– In India, carrot tops are often add fresh and dried in many dishes, very often in soups. And in Russia, carrot tops are not prepared in their pure form as a side dish, preferring to be added to soups and as a spice in preparations.
– Carrot tops rich vitamin C: in 100 grams of tops it is several times more than in the same amount of lemon. Especially its content in carrot tops increases by autumn. It also contains trace elements: calcium, iron, phosphorus. Like any fiber, tops improve digestion.
– Carrot tops can be put in salads, soups, cut and sprinkled on boiled potatoes as an independent herb or together with dill, oregano, parsley.