Often, before using tomatoes in cooking, you need to remove a thin skin from them. How easy and simple to remove the peel from the fruit, read in a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Tomatoes are the most common vegetable in world cuisine. To use it for culinary purposes, it is quite often required to remove a thin skin from the fruit. This operation is quite easy to do if you take into account the tips below and follow the step-by-step instructions. To facilitate the process, many approaches have been developed that allow you to peel a ripe or unripe tomato. In most cases, exposure to high temperatures is used, so you need to act very quickly. Any delay will negatively affect the condition of the pulp and deprive tomatoes of many useful components.
It is common to peel tomatoes when adding them to soups, stews, or sauces. Because tomato peel is more difficult for the body to absorb. This is especially important to remember when preparing meals for children and the elderly, because the skin is practically not digested in the human body. Also, during heat treatment, the peel is separated from the fruit and curled up, which looks unappetizing in the finished dish. It is almost impossible to eliminate or correct such a nuisance, but it can be prevented by learning how to quickly deal with tomato skins.
See also how to prepare dried tomatoes for the winter.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 15 kcal.
- Servings - Any Amount
- Cooking time - 5 minutes
Ingredients:
Tomatoes - any quantity
Step-by-step preparation for peeling tomatoes, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the tomatoes under running cold water and pat dry with a paper towel. Use a small knife at the base of the tomato to make a shallow cruciform incision on the skin so as not to cut through the flesh of the tomato itself.
2. Place prepared tomatoes in a saucepan and pour boiling water over the whole fruit. Leave them on for 20 seconds.
3. Pry the corners of the skin with a knife. It should peel off easily and begin to curl up.
4. When this happens, immediately remove the tomatoes from the boiling water.
5. Immerse the tomatoes in a bowl of cold water for 15 seconds. Place both bowls next to each other to quickly move the tomatoes from the boiling water to the ice bath.
6. Remove the skin from the chilled tomatoes by slowly pulling the skin around the corners with the blunt side of a knife. If the skin does not separate well, repeat the procedure and again immerse the fruits in boiling water, and then in cold water. Having removed the skin from the tomatoes, use them for their intended purpose for cooking.
Advice:
- The more ripe the tomatoes are, the less you keep them in hot water. Unripe tomatoes take about one minute. In this case, be careful, because if the fruit is in hot water for a long time, it starts to cook and may become too soft.
- The skin is better separated from ground ripe seasonal tomatoes harvested in August. The skin of greenhouse and unripe fruits is thinner, more difficult to separate, but possible.
See also a video recipe on how to peel a tomato.
