Very often, the yield of tomatoes on the backyard exceeds the need of the owners. And they simply do not know what to do with them. And ate, and all the billets that planned, made. Where to give such a number of tomatoes? Well, not to throw away, so much strength is put on their cultivation. Perfect exit - make or cook tomato juice.
The advantages of tomato juice
Children do not like tomato juice. It is understandable, it is not sweet, thick, peculiar taste. But most adults just love him. It is perfectly suitable as an element of dietary food, and as a decoration of a festive table, and just to drink it - a pleasure. Adults more often prefer something acute and salty sweet, and tomato juice is able to meet all these preferences.
In addition to taste, the tomato juice contains a large number of useful substances and elements. It can be detected in it:
- Vitamins of various groups.
- Useful for digestion fiber.
- Carbohydrates and organic acids.
- A large range of minerals and antioxidants.
Among other things, tomato juice has low calorie and will be an assistant to those who are trying to fight extra kilograms.
And a large advantage of tomato juice is that its composition includes a unique substance - Licopene. It helps the body to deal with malignant neoplasms, which makes it an indispensable one.
Homemade tomato juice will indeed help cope with a number of diseases and health problems, for example, it helps well:
- When dealing with overweight.
- Displays slags and toxins.
- Helps relieve tension and facilitate depressive and stressful states.
- It is an indispensable component in the dietary menu during heart disease, vessels, diabetes mellitus of all types.
Remember, the benefits will be apparent exclusively when using juice prepared at home. Packaged factory analogs will bring more harm than good, their name is the effectiveness of the name and are generally doubtful. The use of any packaged juices should be limited or excluded from the everyday menu.
Methods of cooking home tomato juice
Keep in mind that cooking tomato homemade juice is an uncommon and troublesome business. But believe me, it is worth it.
What tomatoes are suitable for tomato juice?
Typically, the collected tomatoes are sorted according to the principles of beauty, density and favors. Those who are ideal, usually go to the preservation, where whole tomatoes are required, the rest, possessing, for example, a thin skin and juicy flesh, cracked, some mint or even those that began to spoil a little from one side, perfectly suitable for cooking juice. Naturally, if tomatoes are non-thendition, then all dubious places need to be removed.
Now about the ratio of raw materials and the finished product. In order to get a glass (approximately 200 ml) of juice, 2 medium-size tomatoes will be required. If you need to do more juice, then keep in mind that 10 kg of tomatoes will eventually become about 8 liters of juice. The ratio is accurate.
Juice can be made in different ways: manually, with the help of juicer, sludge, meat grinders. Here everything will depend on the availability of equipment in your farm and free time. The following will be considered all the ways.
Preparation of tomato juice through the juicer
This is perhaps the easiest, but also the most uneconomic way, since waste is much larger than the finished product. Make juice with the help of this unit is a matter of a few seconds. Preparatory work is also minimal:
- Rinse the right amount of tomatoes.
- Cut into 4 parts.
- Remove frozen.
- Skip through the juicer.
- Add sugar, salt to taste.
If you wish in the resulting juice, you can add celery juice, parsley, dill or ground pepper - here you already need to focus on your own preferences.
How to cook tomato juice manually?
Here you have to make a slight more effort than in an option with a juicer, but it turns out completely different on the texture and taste of juice.
- The required number of tomatoes must be thoroughly rinsed.
- Then from you need to cut on the slices, remove the residues of the fruits, put in a saucepan or deep frying pan and cook. It is important to know that tomatoes should be cooked on a slow heat in their own juice, without the use of third-party fluid. It is not worth worrying, tomatoes during heating are highlighted enough juice, so there will be no problems with this.
- There is no accurate time of cooking tomatoes, here you need to focus on your own feelings. As soon as the tomatoes become as soft as possible, they can be thrown into a sieve, and wipe into a deep container. In fact, the waste here will be a bit, and the juice itself will have a puree state. Someone before use dilutes with water, someone likes such a thick consistency.
- Sugar, salt, spices are added to taste.
- Juice is ready to use.
By the way, it is this recipe that allows you to maintain a maximum concentration of liquid - natural antioxidant, which helps to fight cancer.
Preparation of tomato juice with a meat grinder
It is also easy to:
- Tomatoes need to rinse, chop, remove the fruits.
- Scroll through a meat grinder. Of course, Ideally use the electric, it will help save time, but also manual is also perfect.
- After the tomato is scrolled, they need to wipe through the sieve.
- Then the resulting liquid is placed in a saucepan and evaporate excess water. How much to evaporate is your watch.
- Prepared juice to spit sugar and salt, and you can drink before cooling.
Homemade tomato juice from Sokalovka
Sokalovka is pretty difficult at first glance, resembling a multi-level double boiler, although in fact, probably, it is.
Sailing consists of several levels:
- Catering for water.
- Capacity where juice is going to in the cooking process.
- Capacity with holes where fruits, berries or vegetables are placed (resembles a colander).
- Lid.
When buying a hooker, it is highly recommended to pay attention to the material and choose that Sokalkka, which is made of stainless steel. The thing is that the stainless steel is resistant to the effects of the external environment and oxidation, and aluminum, from which there is also a hooker, no. Let a stainless steel ease and will cost you much more expensive aluminum, but believe me, it is quite justified.
- Tomatoes Before placing in a hooker, you need to still rinse, remove the fruits.
- Then the tomatoes are finely crumble and placed in the compartment for fruit (colander).
- In the lower part of the foaming, it is necessary to pour water.
- The design is collected and placed on the stove. Heating should be intense.
- The juice is brewed in a hooker for about an hour, then it is necessary to drain it from the juiceabeer and profile through a sieve or gauze.
- Then add sugar with salt.
- And all, juice is ready.
How does the juice be harvested?
There is nothing complicated here, any of the recipes prescribed above is suitable for conservation, the main thing is to sterilize the container in which it will be stored. And that juice that remained raw, as in the version with the juicer, you need to pre-cook, removing the resulting foam during the cooking shimmer.
Of course, with tomato juice and its preparation a lot of trouble, but as a result, it turns out a stunning delicious, and most importantly - a useful drink.