A simple recipe for green tomato salad for the winter

Information about who first used green tomatoes for conservation and preparing salads for the winter is lost in history. However, this thought was wise, because very often unripe tomatoes are affected by late blight or another disease, or the cold sets in too sharply and the crop simply does not have time to ripen. Closing green tomatoes for the winter, the hostess does not lose a single fruit - the entire harvest from the bush goes to work. Green tomato salad for the winter is a great way to use unripe fruits. In combination with other vegetables and spices, tomatoes acquire an extraordinary taste and become very spicy.

The recipes for green tomato salad for the winter will be discussed in this article. It will also tell you about the secrets of making such a snack, and also describe a way to preserve tomatoes without sterilization.

How to cook the simplest winter salad

Usually, salads with green tomatoes are prepared with just a few ingredients, the recipes for these dishes are not very complex, and the preparation does not take much time.

But in order for the green tomato salad to turn out very tasty, you need to know some of the nuances:

• spoiled or diseased fruits should not be used for salad. If the tomato plantation in the garden is destroyed by late blight or other infection, you need to especially carefully inspect each tomato. Rot or dark spots should not be not only on the skin of the tomato, but also inside the fruit.
• Buying green tomatoes on the market is dangerous precisely because infected fruits can be caught. On the outside, such tomatoes may look perfect, but on the inside they will turn out to be black or rotten. Therefore, the best way to get healthy green tomatoes is to grow them in your own garden.
• Cut tomatoes for salad with a sharpened knife so that juice does not flow out of the fruit. It is very convenient to use a citrus fruit knife for this, the blade of which is equipped with a fine-toothed file.
• Although there are a lot of salad recipes without sterilization, the hostess must understand that cans and lids for preservation must be treated with boiling water or hot steam.

Simple green tomato salad for the winter

For the winter, green tomato salad can be prepared with different vegetables, the combination of such products turns out to be very tasty:

• 2.5 kg of green tomatoes;
• 500 g carrots;
• 500 g onions;
• 500 g sweet pepper;
• a glass of vinegar;
• a stack of sunflower oil;
• 50 g granulated sugar;
• 50 g of salt.

Making a salad is very simple:

1. Tomatoes must be washed, sorted out, and the stalks removed.
2. Then the tomatoes are cut into large cubes.
3. The carrots are peeled and cut into slices, the thickness of which is 2-3 mm.
4. Onions are also cut into not very thin rings or half rings.
5. Bell peppers should be peeled and cut into squares.
6. All chopped components must be mixed in a common bowl and salt added there. Leave the vegetables in this form for 5-6 hours.
7. When the specified time has passed, you can pour in oil and vinegar, add granulated sugar. Mix everything well.
8. Now you need to put the container with the salad on the stove and cook for about 30 minutes after boiling. Stir the green tomato salad constantly.
9. It remains to put the hot salad in clean jars and roll up.

Delicious green tomato salad with cabbage

To prepare this salad you will need:

• 600 g of unripe tomatoes;
• 800 g of fresh cucumbers;
• 600 g white cabbage;
• 300 g carrots;
• 300 g onions;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• 30 ml vinegar (9%);
• 120 ml of vegetable oil;
• 40 g of salt.

The cooking process for this dish is as follows:

1. The tomatoes should be washed and cut into small cubes.
2. The cabbage is chopped into thin strips.
3. Carrots should be cut into long strips or grated for Korean vegetables.
4. The onion is cut into thin half rings, and the garlic is passed through a press.
5. The cucumbers should be peeled and cut into strips. It is better to choose young cucumbers so that the seeds in them are medium-sized.
6. Squeeze the cabbage a little with your hands, then add the rest of the vegetables to it, mix everything with salt. Leave the salad for a couple of hours.
7. When the vegetable juice appears in the saucepan, it is placed on the stove, oil and vinegar are poured in, and the salad is brought to a boil.
8. It takes about 40 minutes to cook the salad for all the ingredients to become soft.
9. The prepared salad is laid out in jars, covered with lids and sterilized.
10. After sterilization, cans can be rolled up.

How to make a good tomato and eggplant salad

For this unusual dish you will need:

• 1 kg of blue;
• 1 kg of green tomatoes;
• 1 kg of sweet pepper;
• 0.5 kg of onions;
• a pod of hot pepper;
• 40 g salt;
• 1 liter of water;
• 60 ml vinegar;
• 100-200 g of sunflower oil.

Tomato salad should be prepared like this:

1. Blue ones are washed and cut into thick circles.
2. Dissolve a spoonful of salt in a liter of water and put chopped eggplants there. After 15 minutes, the mugs need to be removed, rinsed and dried with paper towels. Thanks to this, bitterness will leave the blue ones.
3. In a pan with a lot of vegetable oil, fry the eggplant circles on both sides until golden brown.
4. Green tomatoes must be cut into thin circles, onions and bell peppers - in half rings, and hot peppers are cut into small thin rings.
5. All these vegetables must be fried in vegetable oil, then stew for about 30-40 minutes, covering the pan with a lid. Five minutes before cooking, salt is added to the salad and vinegar is poured.
6. Put the vegetable mixture and eggplant in layers in jars.
7. Salad in jars is sterilized for at least 20 minutes, then rolled up.

Vegetables prepared in this way can be stored in the basement or in the refrigerator.

Green tomato salad for the winter without sterilization

There are housewives who have never sterilized the workpieces, and are afraid to even try. For them, salad recipes that do not require sterilization are optimal. For one of these dishes you will need:

• 4 kg of brown (or green) tomatoes;
• 1 kg of onions;
• 1 kg of bell pepper;
• 1 kg of carrots;
• 1 cup granulated sugar;
• 1 glass of vegetable oil;
• 2 tablespoons of salt;
• 120 ml vinegar.

Preparing such a salad is even easier than the previous ones:

1. All vegetables are washed and cleaned of seeds, peels, stalks.
2. Carrots are grated for Korean salads.
3. Sweet peppers are cut into thin strips.
4. Cut green tomatoes into thin slices.
5. The onion should be chopped into half rings.
6. All ingredients are combined in one container, salt, sugar, oil and vinegar are added, mix thoroughly.
7. Now the salad must be stewed, bringing to a boil over low heat, with constant stirring.The vegetable mixture should be stewed for at least 15 minutes.
8. Jars and lids for this dish must be sterilized.
9. The hot salad is laid out in clean jars and rolled up. After that, you should wrap the jars in a blanket and leave until morning. Store blanks for the winter in the basement.

Salad recipes without preservation can be diversified by adding hot peppers, allspice peas or spices like cloves to it.

Green tomato salads for the winter with apples

Sweet and sour apples will add a spicy note to a vegetable snack, give freshness and aroma.

For one of these salads, you need to take:

• 1.5 kg of green tomatoes;
• 0.5 kg of bell pepper;
• 1 kg of apples;
• 200 g of quince;
• 200 g onions;
• half a lemon;
• a glass of sunflower oil;
• 120 ml of apple cider vinegar;
• 40 g salt;
• 50 g sugar;
• 5-6 cloves of garlic;
• 5 bay leaves;
• a teaspoon of dried basil;
• 5 carnation flowers;
• hot pepper pod.

The cooking technology of this dish is as follows:

1. Tomatoes are washed and cut into small slices.
2. The core should be cut from the apples, also cut into slices. To prevent the fruit from darkening, they are well sprinkled with lemon juice.
3. Cut onions and bell peppers into half rings.
4. All ingredients, except apples, are mixed, sugar and salt are added, and left for 30 minutes.
5. Now you can add apples to the salad, pour in oil, vinegar, add spices.
6. The mixture is brought to a boil and cooked for about 15 minutes.
7. Throw garlic sliced ​​into a saucepan with salad and cook for another 5 minutes.
8. The hot appetizer is laid out in jars, covered with lids and sterilized for about 20 minutes. After that, the workpiece is rolled up.

Cobra salad with green tomatoes

This appetizer got its name due to its variegated color and piquant burning taste.

To prepare the workpiece, you will need the following ingredients:

• 2.5 kg of unripe tomatoes;
• 3 heads of garlic;
• 2 pods of hot pepper;
• 150 ml of table vinegar;
• a bunch of fresh parsley;
• 60 g granulated sugar;
• 60 g of salt.

Cooking this appetizer, like all the previous ones, is not difficult at all:

1. Hot peppers should be washed and seeds removed. After that, the pod is crushed so that very small pieces are obtained.
2. The garlic is peeled and pressed through a press.
3. Greens are washed and finely chopped with a sharp knife.
4. Green tomatoes should be washed, stalked and sliced.
5. All ingredients are put in a large saucepan, salt and sugar are added, and mixed.
6. When the salt and sugar have dissolved, vinegar can be added.
7. The washed jars must be filled with salad, tamping it well. Banks fill up to the top.
8. Now the snack is sterilized for at least 20 minutes. After that, they are corked up and wrapped in a warm blanket.

Green tomato caviar

There is another option for an unripe tomato snack - vegetable caviar. To prepare it you need to prepare:

• 1.5 kg of unripe tomatoes;
• 500 g onions;
• 500 g carrots;
• 250 g bell pepper;
• hot pepper pod;
• 125 g granulated sugar;
• 40 g salt;
• a glass of vegetable oil;
• 10 ml of vinegar for each liter jar of caviar.

It's easy to cook caviar:

1. All ingredients are washed, peeled and cut into large pieces to be rolled through a meat grinder.
2. Pour oil into the resulting mixture, add salt and sugar. Stir and leave vegetables for several hours, after covering them with a lid.
3. Now you need to put the container on the stove and bring the caviar to a boil. Cook it over low heat for about 40 minutes with constant stirring.
4. Spread hot caviar in jars, pour a spoonful of vinegar into each and roll it up.

Blanks of green tomatoes are considered a curiosity, since it is difficult to find unripe tomatoes on sale. But such salads will be an excellent way out for owners of their own gardens, because tomatoes in the middle lane often do not have time to fully ripen.

The video will tell you more about cooking a snack from green tomatoes:

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