Russian cuisine: What dishes can be cooked with tomatoes? Vegetable Lite appetizers, Adjika

It is hard to imagine life without ketchup or tomato juice, without adzhika and tomato salad. Today, tomatoes - King Russian gardens.

And there was a time when it was considered poisonous and were afraid to try. According to legend, the cook, George Washington was trying to poison him with tomatoes and meat. George Washington was pleased with the dish, and cook for fear of possible punishment committed suicide, never knowing that the tomato is edible.

Homeland tomatoes - Peru, northern Chile, the Galapagos Islands. And now they are found there in the wild. Indians - Incas and Aztecs - called him "tomatl" that is "large berry. They grow there as on the bushes (that we habitually), and at crawling on the ground stems, and the huge, five-meter tree tomato.

Tomato for Russia - the culture is relatively new. In Italy the tomato is very quickly became a favorite vegetable. His lovingly styled signor. To give other affectionate names. But most of all caught on the Italian "Pomo Doro" ("golden apple") because of the yellow first cultivated in the 16 century fruit.

In addition to its excellent taste data, a tomato is very helpful for cardiovascular disease, gastritis with low acidity, total loss of strength, weakening of memory, an anemia. Apply tomato and as a laxative. Mush red tomatoes is applied to swollen veins. Tomatoes are also very useful for weight loss. The average tomato contains about 20 calories. A person can eat per day 2.3 kg of tomatoes or 2 liters of tomato juice without any problems and implications.

Food - one of the main pleasures in life, and exquisite food - gourmet delights.

Try these blanks.

Tomatoes and onions in sterilized jelly

Cut the tomatoes in quarters, onion slices and disassembled into the ring. Lay in a three-liter jar, alternating tomato and onion rings.

Prepare the marinade. At the 5 three-liter cans need 6 liters of water, 18 tablespoons of sugar, 6 tablespoons salt, 6 bay leaves, about 20 peas pepper, dill. Boil the marinade, drain it and pour it on the banks piled on top of tomatoes and onions. Then pour into each jar of jelly.

Jelly: 1 teaspoon of gelatin add half a glass of water and leave to swell for 40 minutes. Then bring to a boil and pour it evenly on the banks. Sterilized jars 10 minutes.

Tomatoes, sliced circles, with onion and garlic

Red tomatoes, cut into circles, we put in a jar, interspersing dismantled the rings onion rings.
Marinade: 1 liter of water 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon pickling salt, favorite spices, 2-3 bay leaf, sprig of dill, a handful of peeled garlic cloves. Marinade boil for two minutes. Pouring 1 tbsp. spoonful of 9% vinegar and immediately pour them tomatoes and onions. The next day, marinated tomatoes are ready. But 2 days later they were still tasty. It is possible, sterilized for 10 minutes, to make harvesting the winter.

Fruit and vegetable mix in the marinade
Even tastier is obtained. Base recipe - tomatoes, diced small circles with onion and garlic. At the bank, in addition to chopped tomatoes, onions and garlic, nicely laid with any chopped vegetables (at your option), for example, Bulgarian pepper-colored, cauliflower, disassembled on the inflorescence. Underfloor and in slices fruit: plums, kiwis, cherries, grapes, raspberries, and so on.

Marinade the same. Aromas and flavors of fruit and vegetable mix and create the perfect bouquet. Tasty, aromatic, beautiful, festive.

Adjika

1 kg tomatoes, 1 kg of red peppers, 300-500 g garlic, 2 apples (Antonovka), parsley - 1 bunch, bitter peppers - 2 pieces, ground coriander, 250 g of salt and 20 g of 5% vinegar.

All scroll in a meat grinder, add the finely chopped parsley. Stir and refrigerate for a day, several times removed so that the salt is dissolved, decomposed into the jars. Keep better in the refrigerator. You can add soup or any other dish for 5 minutes before cooking. Great taste and aroma. Antonivka gelling, and adjika get thick. Kept very well.

To be continued.