There are quite a lot of recipes for pickling tomatoes. If you experiment and use different ideas every time, winter dishes will not seem monotonous, and a standard set of products will acquire a new taste. A striking example of such a preparation is ordinary tomatoes marinated with cinnamon.

Preparing winter canning

To prepare a dish for 2 servings you will need:

• tomatoes (the ideal size is a little larger than a tennis ball);
• water – 1 l;
• vinegar - 1 dessert spoon for each liter jar;
• sugar – 6 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon - 1 cm sticks for each jar or powder on the tip of a knife;
• salt – 2 tbsp. l.;
• parsley;
• hot pepper optional.

Preparation:

Wash the jars, sterilize and dry well.

Place parsley at the bottom of each jar, add tomatoes, first piercing each of them with a fork or toothpick so that they do not burst during cooking. Place a piece of cinnamon between the tomatoes.

Pour boiling water over the preparation, cover with a lid and leave to steep for 5 minutes. Drain the water and reserve it for later use. To prepare the marinade, boil water and add sugar and salt. Pour a spoonful of vinegar into each jar, add more hot marinade and immediately order the jars with lids. Turn the jars upside down and leave to cool. After cooling, turn the canned food over and put it in a cool, dark place.

Spicy pickled tomatoes with cinnamon

For canning you will need:

• tomatoes;
• cinnamon (ground or sticks);
• garlic cloves.

For each three-liter jar take:

• mint – 4 leaves;
• vinegar essence - 1 tbsp. l.;
• bay leaf – 1 piece;
• cloves - 4 seeds;
• peppercorns – 4 pieces;
• sugar – 200 g;
• salt – 1 tbsp. l.

Procedure:

Place mint leaves and bay leaves at the bottom of the jar. Cut each tomato crosswise at the stem and insert a piece of garlic clove into the cut. Place the tomatoes in jars and pour boiling water over them. Let sit for 15 minutes, drain the water.

For the marinade, take sugar and salt, mix with vinegar essence and boil with drained water. The marinade may turn out stringy and slightly viscous. Cinnamon gives this stickiness.

Throw peppercorns, cloves, and cinnamon into each jar. Pour hot marinade over everything and immediately roll up the jars, turn them upside down and let cool.

If desired, you can add regular onion rings. This will give the tomatoes a pleasant aroma. If you want to get an unusual and original dish, you can add 1 pack of swollen gelatin to the brine.

There are many ways to pickle tomatoes for the winter. The experiments of housewives most interested in this issue do not leave their family members, relatives and friends indifferent, offering pickled tomatoes with cinnamon as a result. In addition, cooking options are a guarantee that you won’t get tired of the same dish, but will appear in a new light to your household every time. Shades of taste will allow pickled tomatoes to remain a favorite dish on the home table.

An important component of the recipe for tomatoes with cinnamon for the winter is the spice present in the composition, which gives the tomatoes a delicate taste and bright aroma. Pickling tomatoes using this method takes a minimum of time from the housewife.

Benefits of cinnamon

Cinnamon itself is a spice that consists of the bark of a cinnamon tree wrapped in a small tube. Its main characteristic is a bitter-sweet, spicy taste. Ground spice is more convenient to use, but it is often counterfeited, replaced with a powder of similar color and consistency. This means that it would be more correct to purchase cinnamon in the form of sticks, which are crushed immediately before adding to the dish.

If we are canning, then sticks are not very convenient, because the amount of spice is calculated in tablespoons. It is very difficult to grate hard bark in such quantities, so you need to pay attention to a bag of cinnamon or purchase products from trusted manufacturers.

Cinnamon sticks can be added in their entirety to various dishes: casseroles and puddings, wine and liqueurs, syrups and cereals, hot chocolate and sauces. In the East, it is customary to use fragrant sticks even in soups, lamb and poultry dishes, and pork, because cinnamon can enhance the taste of fatty meat.

Dairy dishes go well with cinnamon. It is added to pancakes, milk porridges, and pancakes. Fish dishes with cinnamon acquire a great taste. Baking is unthinkable without it: muffins, biscuits, pies, gingerbread cookies, muffins and pies.

It is appropriate to use this spice in the process of preparing canned vegetables. Cucumbers and mushrooms, lingonberries and cranberries, salted watermelons and sweet tomatoes - the taste of all products will be emphasized and highlighted.

Add cinnamon to hot dishes approximately 7 minutes before the end of cooking. If the spice is subjected to prolonged heat treatment, it can acquire a bitterness that spoils the taste of the main dish. If we are talking about cold desserts, then adding it is recommended at the time of serving or shortly before it.

Ingredients for pickling tomatoes with cinnamon

To prepare tomatoes for the winter, you should have:

• tomatoes;
• garlic cloves;
• 1 tbsp. l. vinegar essence;
• four mint leaves;
• 1 bay leaf;
• 4 peas of black pepper and 6 - 8 allspice;
• cloves - 4 buds;
• bell pepper with garlic;
• 1 tsp. cinnamon;
• vegetable oil;
• 6 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 2 tbsp. l. salt;
• clean jars.

The amount of spices used can vary according to the taste preferences of the housewife who salted them and her family members.

Cooking process

Cooking tomatoes with cinnamon for the winter follows the following algorithm:

1. Preparing jars with lids. The container must be washed with baking soda and sterilized for 5 - 7 minutes, then allowed to cool.
2. Rinse the tomatoes in a bowl of water, remove the stems and cut into quarters. It is preferable to use brown fruits, as these tomatoes will be denser and retain their shape.
3. Place spices, onion rings and bell peppers on the bottom of the jars. Place tomatoes on top, place one more onion ring, garlic cloves, cut on top. The fruits are cut into slices before preservation.
4. The next step is preparing the marinade. To do this, add granulated sugar, salt, and ground cinnamon to the required amount of water. Everything needs to be stirred well until the lumps disappear completely. The result should be a uniform brown liquid, which should be boiled for 5 minutes.
5. The marinade is poured into jars, then the containers are covered with lids. They settle for 10 minutes, and then you need to drain the liquid into the pan and bring to a boil again.
6. After refilling, you need to screw on the lids, turn the jars upside down and cover with a warm blanket until they cool completely. Should not be sterilized.

Wash the seaming jars with soda, rinse them several times, then sterilize them, let them cool and dry. Place parsley sprigs, a cinnamon stick and laurel leaves on the bottom. Such spices will make tomatoes tasty and original.

We take tomatoes for canning in liter jars that are not very large, so that they fit better in the container. Place the washed tomatoes in jars and pour boiling water over them. Leave for 10 minutes, covering with a lid.

Let's prepare the marinade: boil water and add sugar and salt. Stir the marinade until the grains at the bottom dissolve. We wait for the liquid to boil again and cook for 1-2 minutes. At the very end, pour vinegar and mix. Remove immediately from heat and the marinade is ready.

Drain the water from the tomato and immediately pour in the hot marinade and vinegar. We seal the jars and place them under a warm blanket. If you used iron lids, then turn the jars over and insulate them. There is no need to turn jars with screw lids over, just throw a blanket on top and let them cool completely. After 6-8 hours, remove the blanket and put the tomatoes in the pantry until winter. Enjoy your meal!