TOOOOO Many Tomatoes, Help Please

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yup I blanch them in boiling water to get the skins off, then chop them up roughly, shove in a pan with a dollop of lazy garlic and a handful of herbs and cook gently until a red mushy consistancy stirring now and again so they don't stick.If you have it some fresh ground pepper and a slurp of white wine (optional) and this makes a lovely sauce for pasta.I do this with those big boxes of toms that are reduced in the supermarkets and portion them up into eiother poly bags or the square flat chinese rice boxes that come with a take away(my DDs not mine as I don't like Chinese food)and freeze them until needed.better that pots or jars of pasta sauce and a darned site cheaper as well.

MaggieBaking

Thanks everyone. I recently bought some of the Ikea meatballs so I'll use the tomatoes to make a nice sauce to go with them

valk_scot

I make passata with them...I just chop them up with skin and all, saute up with olive oil, garlic, chopped onions , herbs, modest amount of salt and the obligatory teaspoon of sugar. Then I blend it down with a stick blender (the skin blends in too) and simmer down till thick. Freeze in appropriate portion sizes.

For pre frozen tomatoes though I just drop them in the stew or sauce whole and frozen, then fish out the skins later. Tomatoes used this way are more watery so reduce the amount of other liquid used.

zippychick

as this has dropped down the board ive merged it with our tomatoes thread

Zip

[Deleted User]

We are nearing tomato picking time and I want to get everything ready for preserving without the freezer.

Many of you were bottling/canning last year and I would like to know how you got on with it and did your tomatoes last?

Half of me wants a real canner but the sensible side says no, too much space required and too much money as I don`t think they are available anywhere in the uk. The main reason for my post is to find out what happened and would you do it again?

absfabs

Hi, not sure whether to post here or on Greenfingers, but need some simple recipe ideas of what to do with lots of ripe tomatoes. Soups, sauces, but please only easy recipes. Love eating them as they are and in salads, but more than we can manage at the moment. Mostly cherry tomatoes, don't want to have to skin and deseed them, but can't bear to let them spoil.
Thanks for looking!

valk_scot

Just freeze them whole. Then take out when needed and drop them into stews, or make tomato sauce or soup from frozen toms and sieve or whizz with a blender to get rid of skin and seeds.

lizzyb1812

Hi - I have lots of cherry tomatoes in my freezer. I put a bag in a medium size plastic box, fill it with halved/quartered tomatoes, tie the bag up, pop the top on and freeze. Once the tomatoes are frozen get the bag out of the box so you can reuse the box. A bag/box = approximately one can of tomatoes.

I use them, skins, seeds and all, to make tomato based sauces, to add to stews, curries, soups, wherever you would use a can of tomatoes.

Skinning and deseeding cherry tomatoes is not necessary IMHO

absfabs

Wow, quick replies or what?

didn't know I could freeze tomatoes, sure sounds like the simplest and quickest solution.

Many thanks:beer:

squeaky

Lots of ideas in this thread... TOOOOO Many Tomatoes, Help Please

I'll add this thread to it later to help keep answers together.