Armenian tomatoes for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make tomatoes in Armenian for the winter? It's not difficult at all if you follow a few rules. Prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking. Wash the vegetables thoroughly in warm water and dry them. Soak the greens for 15 minutes in a bowl of cold water with the addition of salt and vinegar at the rate of one tablespoon per liter of water, then rinse thoroughly under running water.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the cans thoroughly with baking soda in hot water and rinse thoroughly. Sterilize the jars in any convenient way. It can be steam, an oven or, as I have a microwave oven. Boil the iron lids for 10 minutes over medium heat.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut tomatoes lengthwise from the side of the stalk to 3/4 length. Tomatoes take dense, preferably fleshy and not very large.

4. Step 4:

   

   Dry the clean greens and chop them very finely, put them in a bowl. Peel the hot pepper from the seeds and chop very finely, add to the greens and mix. The amount of pepper depends on your taste and the sharpness of the pepper itself. You can also add finely chopped garlic here, but we prefer to add it directly to the jar.

5. Step 5:

   

   Fill the incision in tomatoes with a mass of herbs and pepper.

6. Step 6:

   

   Carefully place the stuffed tomatoes in jars. You do not need to try to lay them tightly as with normal salting, you will get stuck and then you will not be able to extract them normally.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour clean water into a saucepan and add sugar.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add salt to the brine, stir and bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil for 2 minutes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour vinegar into boiling brine and bring to a boil.

11. Step 10:

    

    Peel the garlic and cut into slices. Put the garlic in jars with tomatoes.

12. Step 11:

    

    Fill the jars with boiling brine and leave for 2 hours, covering them with boiled lids. Then drain the brine, bring it back to a boil, fill the jars and roll up. Wrap the jars in a warm blanket and leave to cool completely.

13. Step 12:

    

    Store jars of Armenian tomatoes in a cool, dry place. Enjoy your meal.