Recipe for tomatoes with parsley for the winter 

Almost everyone loves tomatoes. And this is quite understandable. They are delicious both fresh and canned. The benefits of this vegetable are undeniable. It is especially important that they contain a lot of lycopene, a powerful antioxidant, which is a therapeutic and prophylactic agent for many diseases.

You can preserve tomatoes for the winter in different ways. You don’t have to marinate them whole. There are many recipes in which tomatoes are cut in half or into even smaller pieces.

This method is convenient in that you can use dishes of small volume, even with a capacity of 0,5 liters. These vegetables go well with parsley. You can also add onions, sweet bell peppers, garlic and even apples. All these additives will make the taste of vegetables richer, and the variety of components will bring undeniable benefits. The marinade of such canned food is not inferior in taste to the vegetables themselves and is often drunk before they are eaten. Recipes for cooking tomatoes with parsley are as follows.

Tomatoes with parsley

To prepare tomatoes with parsley for the winter, it is better to take plum-shaped or other shaped tomatoes, but strong and unripe, even brown ones will do, however, they will be rather dense in canned form.

For five half-liter jars you will need:

• tomatoes – 1,5 kg;
• parsley – a large bunch;
• marinade – 1 l.

To prepare this amount of marinade you need:

• water – 1 l;
• sugar – 6 tbsp. spoons, you need to take it so that there is a small slide;
• salt – 50 g of coarse grinding;
• vinegar 9% – 1 tbsp. spoon for each jar.

The cooking process is quite simple

• wash and sterilize jars and lids. Since, after filling, the jars according to this recipe are not sterilized, they must be pre-treated very carefully;
• my tomatoes, let the water drain;
• cut them in half;

  

  You can also use tomatoes slightly damaged by phytophthora, provided that they are sufficiently dense.

• lay the tomatoes in layers, each layer is shifted with parsley;

  

• when everything is ready, we make a marinade – we heat a liter of water, adding the entire norm of sugar and salt there;
• you can do different things with vinegar – add according to Art. spoon into each jar or pour everything into a saucepan with marinade before turning it off;
• pour boiling marinade up to shoulders;
• we roll up the jars with lids, they need to be turned over and be sure to cover them with a blanket for a day.

This is the easiest recipe for canned tomatoes. There are many variants of it.

Tomatoes marinated with vegetable oil and spices

To prepare canned food according to this recipe for a liter dish, you will need:

• tomatoes – 700 g;
• onion;
• 2 bay leaves and the same number of allspice peas;
• black pepper 5 peas;
• 2 tablespoons of refined vegetable oil.

For pouring, you need to prepare the marinade:

• water – 1 l;
• bay leaf;
• cloves and black pepper, 5 pieces each;

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• coarse salt 3 tablespoons;
• 9% vinegar 2 tablespoons.

This amount of marinade can be poured into 2,5 liter jars.

Stages of preparation

• wash and cut the tomatoes in half;

  

  We choose tomatoes medium-sized and dense.

• onion cut into thin rings;
• wash dishes and sterilize;
• put spices in each jar and fill it with tomato halves, mixed with onions. Tomatoes should be laid cut side down.
• we prepare a marinade from water, salt and spices with the addition of vinegar, boiling everything together;
• fill up to shoulders with marinade;
• sterilize the jars for 10 minutes at a low boil of water;

  

  At the bottom of the dishes in which sterilization will take place, you need to put a rag so that the jars do not burst.

• add to each jar 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• close them with pre-sterilized lids, roll them up.

Tomatoes with parsley, onion and sweet pepper

For winter preparations, you can cook tomatoes according to another recipe, for which, in addition to tomatoes, you will need: onions, garlic, sweet peppers and, of course, parsley. The marinade for pouring is prepared as follows: add 2 tbsp per liter of water. tablespoons refined vegetable oil, sugar and salt.

Stages of preparation

• Wash all vegetables well.
• We cut the tomatoes into halves or quarters, depending on their size.

  

  You need to choose dense small fruits. This blank of tomatoes of different colors looks very beautiful.

• We clean the onion and pepper, wash the peppers from the seeds and cut both vegetables into half rings. They need to be put on the bottom of a sterilized jar.

  

  We also send garlic there, which must be finely chopped or passed through a press. Proportions per 1 liter jar: half an onion and pepper, two cloves of garlic.

  

• Parsley can be cut into large pieces or put in whole sprigs, 7 sprigs per 1 liter jar.

  

• You can put the remaining onion on top of the tomatoes.
• Prepare the marinade: water with salt, butter and sugar should boil.
• Add a tablespoon of 9% vinegar to each jar and pour boiling marinade up to the shoulders.
• We cover them with sterilized lids. For better storage, canned food should be sterilized by placing the jar in a pot of warm water and bringing it to a boil. For cans of 1 liter, the sterilization time at a low boil is a quarter of an hour.

  

• We take out the jars from the pan, roll them up, turn them over and wrap them up for a day.

Winter tomato preparations are a great addition to the table. They do not require much time for cooking, but there will be a lot of pleasure and benefit.