What is the calorie content, composition and elements of cherry tomatoes? What nutrients do they contain? Harm and contraindications for use. How to cook properly and in what dishes are they used? It is important to remember! This product does not contain many calories, so it can be consumed by those who want to lose weight. Chromium in cherry tomatoes satisfies hunger well. Therefore, obese people can eat them too.
Harm and contraindications to eating cherry tomatoes
These mini tomatoes have so many nutrients that, it would seem, they are not harmful and have no contraindications to use. But, like any vegetable or berry, cherry tomatoes do not need to be eaten for some health problems.
Who should use cherry tomatoes with caution:
- People with endocrine system problems … Thanks to phosphorus, metabolic processes are accelerated, so patients with endocrine system ailments need to use these mini tomatoes carefully.
- Patients with an ulcer … Organic acids contained in cherry tomatoes irritate the mucous membrane and delay recovery. Such patients can eat only 100 g of these vegetables during the day, in other words - 8-9 small tomatoes.
- Allergy sufferers … Those suffering from this ailment, especially those prone to reactions to red, should not eat vegetables and fruits of this color range.
- People with cholelithiasis and kidney stones … Cherry tomatoes can cause an increase in the number of stones and their release from the corresponding organs.
Cherry Tomato Recipes
Mini tomatoes have a lot of useful properties that are not lost even during heat treatment, and some, on the contrary, increase. These vegetables taste sweeter than regular tomatoes, have a wonderful aroma and look pretty in jars, so they are used for salads, snacks and for preservation.
Recipes for harvesting cherry tomatoes for the winter:
- Cherry sugar … For canning, we need: 10 kg of cherry tomatoes, 2 cups of sugar, 5 peppers, 6 cloves of garlic, 20 umbrellas and dill stalks, 2 bay leaves and 2 teaspoons of mustard. Rinse the tomatoes, prick them with a toothpick at the stalk and place them in pre-washed and dried 3-liter jars. Pour boiling water over, allow to cool and drain. Boil the water again, pour the tomatoes again and drain. Rinse herbs, garlic and put in jars, add spices. Now you need to prepare the marinade. Pour 1 liter of water into a saucepan, add 5 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of salt, bring to a boil. Then pour in 3 tablespoons of vinegar, pour in the tomatoes, roll up the cans with tin lids, wrap them until they cool (you can leave them wrapped for a day).
- Canned cherry tomatoes with honey … These are delicious tomatoes that can be eaten after 2 days. Step 1: wash the tomatoes 1 kg, pierce them near the stalks with a needle or a toothpick and put them in a jar, put 5 peas each - allspice and black, 5 cloves of garlic, 2 laurel leaves and a piece of hot pepper. Step 2: bring 2 liters of water to a boil, pour in 1 tablespoon of salt and sugar (you can take a different amount, to taste), pour in the tomatoes, and let them stand for 1 hour. Step 3: drain the brine, bring to a boil, add 2 tablespoons of honey and dissolve thoroughly, pour 50 ml of apple cider vinegar into the brine and put a sprig of basil (for amateurs) and fill in the tomatoes again, roll up the cans with tin lids, or you can take nylon ones for preservation … Step 4: wrap up, and when the jars are cool, we put them in a cold place.
- Cherry in half-liter jars "From the hostess" … The recipe is designed for 1 such container. Ingredients: 5 dill umbrellas (take young stems); garlic - 2 cloves; 1 bay leaf; small horseradish and carrot root; 3 peas of black and allspice and 1 currant leaf. You need to take as many tomatoes as you need to fill the jar around the rim. First, we sterilize the container. Then we spread the spices, then the cherry. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes. Let it stand for 10 minutes. Drain the water into a saucepan and add 2 teaspoons of sugar (with a slide) and 1 teaspoon of salt (without a slide) per liter of water. Bring to a boil and add vegetables. Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar essence again to 1 liter of liquid. We roll it up, wrap it up, and let it cool down. Bon Appetit!
- Salted cherry tomatoes … This recipe is for salty lovers. Step 1: prepare the brine, bring 1.5 liters of water to a boil, put in it 100 g of salt, a coarsely chopped head of garlic and 10 black and allspice peas each, remove from heat, let it cool. Step 2: rinse with 2 kg of tomatoes and blanch in salted water for 1 minute. Step 3: rinse the greens, i.e. bunches of celery and dill, put on the bottom of the salting dish, put 2 bay leaves in the same place. Step 4: put the tomatoes, you can add a few branches of greenery on top, now pour the brine into the container. Step 5: cover the container with a plate and place a small load. We keep the tomatoes for 7 days at room temperature, and then put them in the refrigerator. You can salt cherry tomatoes not only in pans, but cans of different sizes and buckets are also suitable.
Cherry Tomato Recipes:
- Gourmet salad with cherry tomatoes … For him, take 1 bunch of arugula, 12 mini tomatoes, 300 g of fresh mushrooms, 150 g of hard cheese, 1 sweet pepper, 150 g each of olive oil and lemon juice, ground salt and black pepper to taste. First, prepare mushrooms for a dish: clean, wash, cut into large pieces and fry until tender. Now we wash the tomatoes, cut them in half. We wash the arugula and cut into large pieces. Cut the washed pepper into half rings, and the cheese into cubes. Mix everything, salt, pepper and add oil and lemon juice. Can be served at the table.
- Salad with shrimp … Cooking the ingredients: take 400 g of shrimp, 200 g of green lettuce leaves, 5 cherry tomatoes, 50 g of olive oil, 1 chili pepper, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 teaspoon of honey, 2 such measurements of lemon juice and a little salt, to taste. Defrost, clean and dry the shrimp. Wash, peel and cut the chili into rings, and crush the garlic with a garlic. Fry them for 2 minutes in olive oil and put them on a plate. Now we fry the shrimps. We wash the lettuce leaves and chop them coarsely, although you can tear them with your hands. Rinse the cherry and cut it into 4 pieces. Preparing the dressing. Mix honey, lemon juice, salt and cooled butter from a frying pan.
- Salad with corn and olives … We need the following foods and seasonings: 200 g cherry tomatoes, 50 g black olives, 1 cucumber, 1 bunch of green onions, 4 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 head of frisse salad (you can take any other salad), 1 lemon and salt to taste. We wash vegetables and herbs. Then we cut them: tomatoes in half, olives and onions - in rings, cucumber - in cubes, lettuce can be torn with your hands. Mix all the ingredients of the salad, salt, add olive oil and lemon juice. Eat to your health!
- Sandwiches "Ladybug" … They will decorate any table and will cheer up both children and adults. We will prepare 12 sandwiches. We need to prepare the following ingredients: 6 pieces of cherry, 100 g of soft curd cheese, 12 slices of white bread (you can take crackers), pitted black olives (5 pieces) and 1 bunch of dill and parsley. We wash the greens and cut them very finely. Combine it with cheese and mix well. For spicy lovers, add finely chopped clove of garlic. We spread this mass on bread or crackers, and put parsley leaves on top. On them we spread the "ladybugs" made from halved cherry and olives. The sandwiches are ready! We ask for the table!
- Garlic sauce with basil and cherry tomatoes … You need to heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Fry the washed pieces of garlic (3 cloves) and basil (1/4 cup) for 30 seconds. Rinse with 200 g mini tomatoes, cut into 4 pieces and cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add 250 g of cream, salt and black pepper to taste. Bring to a boil, turn it off, let it brew.
Interesting facts about cherry tomatoes
These tomatoes were grown in the Andes. Then they migrated to the territory where modern Mexico is now located. And the Incas and Aztecs grew them there. Those tomatoes were completely different from today's vegetables. Cherries grew on wide bushes that looked more like small trees. The Indians in South America were so zealous with the cultivation of tomatoes that in the 15th century colonizers from Europe already consumed several types of this tomato.
First wrote about cherry in 1623 in the book "Pinax Theatri Botanici". And in Europe, they first appeared in Santorini. Scientists in Britain and Israel have worked to improve the varieties of these mini tomatoes, to improve the shape, color and taste.
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It is difficult to imagine dishes from many countries of the world without cherry tomatoes. Salads, soups, sauces without these mini tomatoes will not be so fragrant and beautiful in appearance. Canned and salted vegetables will come in handy for the table in the autumn-winter period. In addition, cherry tomatoes are not only very tasty, but also healthy.
