Marinated tomatoes with plums and grapes – recipes from social media

We always have a good tomato harvest, there are a lot of tomatoes, all different in shape and size, and this year we also planted colorful ones - yellow, orange, striped.

What do we usually make with tomatoes for the winter? We marinate tomatoes using our mother's old recipes, make assorted accompaniments, adding cucumbers and other vegetables, and tomatoes in their own juice. We make lecho (a type of lecho) and eggplant with tomato sauce. We boil tomato juice and make a tomato gargle—we call it "Eye-Cutting."

The reason I write "we" is because my husband always helps me with preserves—he peels the garlic, chops the tomatoes, puts the washed jars in the oven to sterilize, and seals the preserves. He's my main helper.

Every year we make something new, just two jars, and if we like the new preparation, we keep that recipe.

Just now we made tomatoes using a recipe from social media - tomatoes with grapes and tomatoes with plums, as we just happened to have grapes and plums at home.

There are countless recipes like this online. I've chosen ones that don't require sterilization.

Recipe: Marinated Tomatoes with Grapes

Tomatoes and grapes need to be washed and dried.

Place 5-10 black peppercorns, 2 bay leaves, 3 cloves, and 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds in the bottom of a clean jar. The spice recipe is for a 3-liter jar.

Then add a layer of tomatoes, a layer of grapes, more tomatoes and grapes until the jar is full.

Pour boiling water over the jars of tomatoes, cover with lids, and leave for 10-15 minutes.

Drain the water into a saucepan, bring to a boil and pour it back into the jars, cool and drain again, but this time you need to measure the milliliters, since the marinade is prepared at the rate of 1 tablespoon of salt and 1.5 tablespoons of sugar per 1 liter of water.

Pour the boiling marinade into the jars, adding 1.5 tablespoons of 9% vinegar per 3-liter jar. Seal with lids and wrap in a warm blanket.

I made two small jars, so I reduced the amount of spices and vinegar.

Recipe: Marinated Tomatoes with Plums

Ingredients: tomatoes, plums, garlic, bay leaf, black peppercorns, allspice.

Marinade: For 1 liter of water, add 1 heaping tablespoon of salt and 3 full tablespoons of sugar. Add 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar to the boiling marinade before pouring into the jars.

Place 1 bay leaf, 6 black peppercorns, 3 allspice, 2-3 cloves of garlic on the bottom of clean, sterile jars, fill the jar with tomatoes and plums, laying them in layers.

Pour boiling water over the jars and cover with lids. Let sit for 10-15 minutes. Then drain the water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, and pour it back into the jars.

Cool, measure the amount of water to prepare the marinade based on 1 liter. Add sugar, salt, and vinegar to the water.

Pour the boiling marinade into the jars, close the lids, turn the jars upside down, and wrap them in a warm blanket.

The finished products look beautiful and appetizing.

We'll find out what they taste like in the winter, and if everyone in the household likes tomatoes with plums and grapes, we'll definitely make tomatoes using these recipes.

So, on one rainy evening we prepared tomatoes and lecho.