Tomatoes in tomato juice
Description
I'll tell you how to make tomatoes in tomato juice. This is an excellent preserve, as it gives you not only delicious canned tomatoes for winter, but also a complete tomato sauce that you can use in preparing various dishes (by the way, it's a great ready-made borscht base). Serve chilled.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. First, thoroughly wash and sort the tomatoes. Keep the firm and small ones whole. Use soft, damaged, or cracked tomatoes for tomato juice.
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Step 2
2. Place the selected whole tomatoes into a sterilized 1-liter jar. The rest—slightly damaged, overripe, or large ones—blend in a blender, process through a meat grinder with a tomato juice attachment, or rub through a sieve. Transfer the resulting tomato puree to a saucepan, add salt (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of puree), and mix in finely chopped herbs.
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Step 3
3. Bring the tomato juice to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Pour the resulting mixture over the jar of tomatoes.
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Step 4
4. Seal the jar, wrap it in something warm, and let it cool. Store in a dark, cool place.