The variety of tomato sauces, soups and other dishes with use of tomatoes blows the mind. In many recipes it is specified that for preparation of a dish tomatoes need to be crushed. If in your kitchen arsenal there are no combine or the blender, then it is possible to make it by means of a usual grater.
It is required to you
- - tomatoes
- - peeler
- - knife
- - water
- - 2 pans
- - grater
- - bowl
Instruction
1. In order that the dish turned out tasty, it is necessary to select vegetables carefully. They have to be ripe and strong. For dishes in which polished tomatoes are used it is necessary to choose fleshy grades. Such tomatoes don't contain a lot of liquid therefore it is simpler to work with them, and they are ideal for preparation of dense sauces.
2. For a start it is necessary to wash tomatoes and to peel them. There are special peelers with a gear edge which are suitable for cleaning of tomatoes. It is possible to make it and the ordinary peeler if it at you good, and tomatoes strong.
3. If you have no peeler, or it doesn't cope with tomatoes, then it is possible to clean them by means of scalding. Choose a pan of the suitable size. Water take so much that it completely covered tomatoes when you in it lower them. Put a pan with water on fire, bring to the boil.
4. Remove the place of fastening of a fruit stem and make a crosswise cut on a thin skin at the tomato basis. It becomes that subsequently it was simpler to pick up a thin skin, and tomatoes were easier peeled.
5. Wait when water begins to boil, lower in it tomatoes and take them in boiled water from 15 seconds to one minute, depending on skin thickness. You will see how it will begin to lag behind in places of cuts. After that take out them a skimmer and cool in a pan with cold water within 10-15 minutes.
6. Peel the cooled-down tomatoes from a thin skin. If all of you make correctly, she will act very easily.
7. Grate the prepared tomatoes. Use the received weight according to your recipe. It will be suitable for sauces and soups.
8. If you didn't manage to find fleshy tomatoes, it is possible to prepare a dish and from usual. It is quite difficult to rub them: they are rumpled, from them juice flows. In order that juicy tomatoes could be grated easily, it is necessary to freeze a little them. After you peel vegetables, put them in the freezer for some time. Tomatoes contain a lot of liquid therefore you don't hold them there long, otherwise they will turn into a piece of ice. It is necessary to you that they became firmer, but at the same time they could be rubbed.