Tomato Juice At Home For The Winter: Step By Step Recipes With Photos And Videos

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Homemade tomato juice for the winter: tastier and healthier than in the store

Tomato juice contains many valuable organic acids and trace elements. It also contains lycopene, an antioxidant that protects the heart and blood vessels from damage. However, in the winter season, the acquisition of high-quality ripe vegetables becomes problematic. Simple and affordable recipes for preserving tomato juice will help out.

Content

• 1 Choosing tomatoes for delicious juice

  1.1 Photo gallery: varieties of tomatoes suitable for making juice

• 2 Recipes for tomato juice for the winter

  • 2.1 Tomato juice without vinegar, salt and sugar

    2.1.1 Video: cooking tomato juice from Yulia Minyaeva

  • 2.2 Juice with bell pepper and bay leaf

    2.2.1 Video: preparing tomato juice with the addition of sweet pepper

  • 2.3 Juice without salt and sugar, made in the simplest way

    2.3.1 Video: a simplified recipe for tomato juice for the winter

Choosing tomatoes for delicious juice

By consuming just one glass of tomato juice a day, you protect your immune system and lower your cholesterol levels. Just try not to drink it on an empty stomach, as this can lead to the development of gastritis.

Choose your vegetables carefully, the taste of canned juice depends on it. It is strictly forbidden to use spoiled tomatoes, soft, with damaged skin or traces of rot.

Ripe tomatoes give the juice a sweetish taste and rich aroma

The following varieties of tomatoes are very suitable for making juice: Thumbelina, Bull's Heart-2, Rocket, Ataman, Rock and Roll. These tomatoes have an optimal ratio of pulp and moisture, allowing them to be used for processing into juice and pasta. Or choose any thin-skinned lettuce tomatoes.

Photo gallery: varieties of tomatoes suitable for making juice

Ataman tomatoes have a pleasant sweet and sour taste and juicy pulp

Rock-n-roll tomatoes have excellent taste and yield a lot of juice during processing

Tomatoes of the Thumbelina variety can very quickly acquire exactly the degree of ripeness that is required for making juice

Tomatoes of the Bull Heart-2 variety have a moderately dense pulp and a sweet taste with a slight sourness

The pulp of Raketa tomatoes is juicy, medium density, which makes it easier to process into juice

Tomato juice recipes for the winter

The presented recipes are simple and do not require any special culinary skills.

Tomato juice without vinegar, salt and sugar

The undeniable advantage of the recipe is that even children can consume this tomato juice. The absence of vinegar and salt contributes to obtaining an excellent velvety taste without excessive acidity.

One two-liter jar usually takes at least two and a half kilograms of tomatoes.

The most convenient way to make tomato juice is with an electric juicer.

Instructions:

1. Cut the tomatoes into wedges.

   

   Do not cut tomatoes finely, as they will still be chopped with a juicer

2. Pass the whole mass of tomatoes through a juicer.

   

   If you use a juicer, then the stalks of tomatoes can not be removed

3. Then strain the juice through a sieve.

   

   This technique will help make the juice less thick.

4. Bring it to a boil and simmer for exactly 5 minutes.

   

   During heating, stir the tomato mass all the time, avoiding the formation of foam

5. Pour the juice immediately into sterilized jars.

   

   Glass containers must be prepared in advance to prevent excessive heating of tomato juice

6. Place the juice cans in a pot filled with hot water. Let the water boil.

   

   When sterilizing cans of tomato juice, do not boil too vigorously

7. Then roll up the jars with lids. Let cool and refrigerate.

   

   Such tomato juice is stored in the refrigerator for three months.

Video: cooking tomato juice from Julia Minyaeva

Juice with bell pepper and bay leaf

Tomato juice with the addition of bell pepper has a bright and memorable taste.

Ingredients:

• 4 kg of tomatoes;
• 800 g sweet pepper;
• 3 pcs. bay leaf;
• 1/2 tsp coriander seeds;
• 3-4 peppercorns;
• 3 tsp salt.

Recipe:

1. Cut small tomatoes in half and large tomatoes in four.

   

   Peduncles and thickenings do not need to be removed

2. Peel the bell peppers and cut into strips.

   

   The juicier the bell peppers, the sweeter the tomato juice will be.

3. Pass the vegetables through a meat grinder.

   

   For chopping vegetables, use a grinder grid with a medium hole diameter

4. Strain the resulting mass through a sieve.

   

   A coarse sieve with a long handle is suitable for straining.

5. Bring the juice to a boil.

   

   Be sure to remove the foam with a slotted spoon while heating the tomato juice.

6. Prepare the spices. Add them to boiled juice and boil it for 10 minutes.

   

   Spices do not require grinding in a mortar, they can be added to the juice as a whole

7. Then strain the juice through a sieve again and fill the previously sterilized jars with it.

   

   By this time, the juice will acquire a pleasant bright color and mouth-watering aroma.

8. Roll up the cans with lids and let the blanks cool at room temperature.

   

   You can place canned juice in the refrigerator only after the blanks have cooled completely

Video: cooking tomato juice with sweet pepper

Juice without salt and sugar, made in the simplest way

This recipe does not use traditional kitchen utensils for juicing - neither a meat grinder, nor a juicer, nor a blender. We only need a sieve and a large saucepan.

Choose a sieve with a long handle and holders that allow you to securely attach it over the pan

Five kilograms of tomatoes usually produce two two-liter cans of tomato juice.

Recipe:

1. Cut the clean tomatoes into halves.

   

   Neither the skin nor the middle of the tomatoes need to be cut

2. Bring the tomatoes to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

   

   Please note: you do not need to add water to tomatoes!

3. Wipe the cooked tomatoes through a sieve.

   

   Wipe tomatoes hot without waiting for them to cool

4. Bring the resulting juice to a boil.

   

   When heating, tomato juice must be stirred all the time

5. Then pour the juice into prepared jars and close with sterilized lids.

   

   Place the cooled cans of tomato juice in the cellar or refrigerator

Video: a simplified recipe for tomato juice for the winter

Households love and eat tomato preparations very willingly, but to be honest, they are fed up with the usual recipes. I got the idea to make tomato juice from ripe tomatoes, which is extremely useful. But we decided to make the juice not simple, but with the addition of vegetables and herbs. Of all the experimental recipes, the most successful was the one that featured bell peppers and carrots. Its taste is simply magical - velvety, spicy due to the addition of coriander, pepper and bay leaf, a little spicy. Children are ready to drink it in liters, it turned out so luxurious. In general, homemade canned tomato juice turned out to be a mega-popular harvest.

Homemade canned tomato juice will please both adults and children. In the winter season, it will become an additional source of vitamins in the diet.