While the season of fresh tomatoes has not come to an end, and on the shelves you can still find soft and sweet fruits, we recommend stocking them for the winter. For a salad defrosted tomato slices do not fit, but here for cooking stew, pizza, casseroles and sauces - quite. Frozen tomatoes from summer will preserve not only their unique seasonal taste, but also a stock of all vitamins that were originally in them, which can not be provided for conservation.
On how to freeze tomatoes for the winter fresh and store them in the cold we will tell in the boards further.
How to freeze tomatoes for the winter in the freezer?
The first and simplest way to prepare tomatoes for the winter is to freeze them completely. For this kind of frost are not large varieties, so if you did not know how to freeze cherry tomatoes for the winter, then this method will be ideal. Also, for a complete frost, small thick-skinned tomatoes "cream" will do. In this case, the process practically does not require any effort from you. All you need to do is rinse and dry the fruits, lay them on a baking sheet in one layer, cover with food film and leave in the freezer until it freezes (usually it takes two days to be sure).
After defrosting tomatoes are easily separated from the skin, and therefore suitable for making sauces, tomato soups , pastes, saute and dressings.
How to freeze tomatoes for slices for the winter?
The second way to freeze tomatoes implies their preliminary cutting. So, you can immediately cut the washed fruit cubes, removing the seeds, and then freeze the pieces by spreading them on a plate in one layer. To freeze small pieces will take no more than 10-12 hours, and at the output you will get already ready for frying or extinguishing the fruits.
Before you freeze the tomatoes for the winter for pizza, for example, the fruit should also be pre-cut, but this time not cubes, but rings. The rings of tomatoes should be about half a centimeter thick, so that after baking they keep the shape well and please you not only with your taste, but also with the appearance. The process of this kind of freezing is also elementary simple. Washed and dried fruits are simply cut into rings across, and then laid out on a baking tray or tray. You can put tomato slices in several layers on top of each other, but before that each next layer should be laid with a layer of food film or cellophane, so that the pieces do not stick together among themselves in a single block. After 36 hours in the freezer, the tomato slices can be carefully separated from each other, poured into a plastic bag with a lock or a sealed plastic container and returned to the freezer for storage. Tomatoes with rings are useful not only for pizza, but also for puffed vegetable casseroles.
How to freeze tomatoes for the winter in "tablets"?
Tomato "pills" are something like ice cream from a tomato. For this type of storage, fresh, washed and dried fruits are beaten with a blender or passed through a meat grinder.