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- Remaining utilization and specialty at the same time: insert green tomatoes
- Worth knowing about unripe tomatoes
- Recipe for green tomatoes in vinegar
- You need:
- Step by step:
Green tomatoes can not be consumed raw, already inserted
Remaining utilization and specialty at the same time: insert green tomatoes
Green tomatoes often hang on the plants in late autumn and can no longer cope with ripening. In addition to the ripening in the house and the insertion in Essigsud is a way to make the unripe fruits edible.
Worth knowing about unripe tomatoes
In this case green tomatoes are not green varieties but immature harvested tomatoes. They are usually consumed on the one hand because of their lack of sweetness and on the other hand because of the contained toxin Solanin usually not.
Although the amount of solanine contained is not a concern if you do not consume exceptionally large amounts of green tomatoes, care should be taken: children should not be offered the unripe fruit even after they have been put in. As an antipasto or refinement for cheese bread for adults, pickled green tomatoes, however, are a special treat.
Recipe for green tomatoes in vinegar
You need:
Step by step:
- Wash the green tomatoes, sort out putrid ones and cut large pieces into coarse pieces, slices or slices. Prepare the glasses by boiling them out or sterilizing them in the oven. Serve the vinegar sauce by mixing water and white wine vinegar in a sufficiently large saucepan and bring to a boil. Add salt, sugar and spices and cook until the salt and sugar are completely dissolved. Put the tomatoes or tomato pieces in the sterile preserving jars. Pour over the boiling hot liquid over it so that the tomatoes are completely covered by it, and immediately close the jars carefully. Allow the glasses to cool and then place in a cool and dark place to pull through. A storage cellar is optimally suited. Let the pickled green tomatoes go for at least two weeks. If you give them a little more time, they will develop more flavor.
The pickled green tomatoes taste as an addition to the snack, to the cheese plate or as a spicy ingredient in dips - so wherever you would use gherkins.For at least half a year, the pickled tomatoes are stable if they have worked perfectly hygienically when inserted.