Tomatoes use not only for preparation of salads, also add them to sauces, soups, ragout. That tomatoes looked in these dishes appetizingly, husk them.
Instruction
1. Don't forget to husk surely tomato when you cook from it hot dishes (it is optional to do it to salads and decoration of dishes). The fact is that the thin skin of tomatoes badly is digested a human body therefore she should be moved away by all means from dishes for children and elderly people. Besides, at thermal processing the thin skin of tomatoes ugly is turned and separates from fruits therefore in a dish looks ugly. It is very simple to husk tomatoes.
2. Take ripe tomatoes, carefully wash up them and remove scapes. Then a sharp knife make small cuts cross-wise at the basis of each tomato. It is possible such cuts and not to do, but they facilitate removal of a peel from fruits. It is necessary to make cuts only on the one side of each fruit.
3. Warm water in a teapot or a pan before boiling. Very hot water that the skin separated is necessary. Quickly lower the made tomatoes in water or fill in them with water from a teapot. In some recipes it is recommended to pin tomato on a fork and to take over fire, but for the sake of safety you shouldn't do it. And tomato can only char, having lost the color and taste.
4. Leave tomatoes in hot water for 10-15 seconds then carefully get them from boiled water. You will see how the thin skin on cuts rose. If tomatoes not really ripe, increase time of their stay in water about one minute. But you don't hold them there too long, otherwise tomatoes will begin to cook and will become too soft.
5. Right after it it is possible to begin to clean tomatoes from a skin, but it is better to lower nevertheless at first tomatoes in cold water. The difference of temperatures will help to remove quicker and with higher quality a skin. Now it is possible to get tomatoes and the knife back softly to pull for a thin skin, deleting it. Usually such procedure happens enough that without problems to remove a thin skin from tomatoes. But if she leaves hardly, it is necessary to place tomatoes in hot water again for a while.
6. Tomatoes after similar culinary processing, as a rule, become soft, they are well grated or small cut, and then used in preparation of various sauces, forcemeats and soups. Most likely, you won't be able qualitatively to cut such tomatoes for beautiful decoration of salads or other dishes as they quickly get out of a shape. Therefore for decoration of dishes it is necessary to use fresh tomatoes with a thin skin.