How to freeze tomatoes

The best, simplest, easiest way to store! How to freeze tomatoes at home is best? Prepare them in different ways: sliced, whole, in the form of mashed potatoes or juice. Then, after defrosting, you can use them in any dishes: first, second, snacks and even desserts.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 25 % 1 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 75 % 3 g
19 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to freeze tomatoes? Prepare the tomatoes for freezing. Choose only the best, strong, whole fruits without flaws. Too juicy won't do - if you plan to slice them. Wash the tomatoes well.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    The same goes for cherry tomatoes. Sort them out, leaving only the best fruits without wormholes, dents. Wash them in cold water.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Throw the washed tomatoes into a colander, letting the excess liquid drain. Then dry them with paper towels.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Do the same with cherry tomatoes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    The easiest way to freeze tomatoes is to do it without slicing. Put small clean and dry fruits in a convenient form in one layer so that they do not touch each other. Put it in the freezer. As soon as the fruits are frozen, put them in a suitable container. These can be plastic bags, food containers. And store it in the freezer.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Small fruits freeze quickly, literally in an hour.

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    Step 7.

    Harvesting tomatoes cut into thin slices will suit pizza fans. There's nothing complicated here. First, cut off the excess parts from the tomatoes. Then cut them into slices 0.5-0.7 mm thick. Having covered the tray with parchment paper, spread the slices on it so that they do not touch each other. And put it in the freezer.

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    Step 8.

    After an hour, the slices are ready to be moved to a convenient storage container (in plastic bags or containers, tightly closed).

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    Step 9.

    Slicing tomatoes can be different. For example, slices or slices. It depends on what you use vegetables for more often: salads, stews, sauces, snacks. Cut clean and dry fleshy tomatoes into pieces or slices of the shape you need and freeze. Then store in the freezer, packed in a convenient container.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Slices of large tomatoes freeze longer - they need 2-2.5 hours. Cover the container tightly with a lid and store in the freezer.

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    Step 11.

    If you cut cherry slices, they will freeze in literally 20 minutes.

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    Step 12.

    An equally convenient way to store frozen tomato products is in the form of juice or puree. There are any fruits here, preferably more colorful. Purify them in any way. After that, you can pour it into bags, small plastic bottles. Or freeze them in an ice-making container and then keep them in a shared bag in the freezer.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    You can freeze tomato juice or mashed potatoes in a large form. For example, in baking molds, in disposable plastic dishes or foil dishes.

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    Step 14.

    The juice, poured into a small container, seized me after an hour and a half. Before removing it, hold the bottom of the dishes for a few seconds under a stream of hot water.

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    Step 15.

    This is how frozen tomato juice looks from a larger mold. Store it in the freezer in a bag or container.

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    Step 16.

    Choose any method that suits you for freezing tomatoes whole, in pieces, in the form of juice or puree. Focus on how exactly you will use your blanks.

To make the process more convenient, and you managed to make several different blanks, stock up, in addition to tomatoes, with a sharp knife (preferably with notches on the blade) and a kitchen board, a meat grinder or blender (for grinding tomatoes), containers necessary for freezing (plastic containers, sealed plastic bags, baking pans, ice, etc.), a bowl and saucepan (for washing fruits), a colander and paper towels, a tray or a wide dish (for laying out pieces), foil or parchment (to lay out pieces for freezing on them), something to place the workpieces in the freezer.

If you want to freeze tomatoes without skin, put the fruits in boiling water. After 10 seconds, remove the peel from them and, placing them in one layer, cover them with polyethylene and send them to the freezer.

The shelf life of frozen tomato products depends on the refrigerator. At temperatures below minus 18, the products are stored for 10 months. With an increase in temperature, the storage time is reduced to 4 months.

Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way, read the article about defrosting.

It is very convenient to make labels on packages with home freezing, where to indicate what is frozen and when (write with a pencil, since ink from the pen may leak). So you will surely know the shelf life and easily find what you need in a full freezer.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Cherry tomatoes - 15   kcal/100g

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