Description:
This recipe will make enough to fill a 1 liter (1 3/4 pint) glass bottling jar.
* Bottling jars in different sizes can be bought. They have spring clips or screw tops.
* Spotlessly clean pots, pans, jar and other equipment are a must. Wash the bottling jars throroughly and rinse in hot water. leave to drain rather than drying with a tea towel which might leave behind lint or bacteria. Do not touch the jars during the sterilizing process, if needed, wrap a cloth around the jar.
Ingredients:
1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) cherry tomatoes
5 cloves garlic
fresh basil
1 teaspoon each salt and sugar
Directions:
Wash the tomatoes and prick the skins with a cocktail stick. Peel the garlic. Pack the jar with the tomatoes, adding basil leaves, garlic, salt and sugar between the layers.
Line an oven tray with cardboard and stand the jar on it with the lid closed but not sealed. Sterilize in the oven at 120 degrees Centigrade (or 250 degrees Fahrenheit) for 45 minutes., then seal and leave to cool.
The reason I posted this is during my high school years, our Practical Arts subject touched upon bottling or preserving vegetables and fruits. I had success with the "atchara" or papaya salad and the ube (purple yam) jam as those I made were quite well-received.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I can't find the recipes I had (I only remembered the part wherein I left the shredded papaya to dry out in the sun)..but now and then I have clippings taken for recipes which I tuck away into nooks and crannies, and one such is the recipe above.
I hope you like tomatoes like I do :-)
It sounds good. Unfortunately, most Japanese homes don't have ovens. We have an oven function built into our microwave, but it is exorbitantly expensive to use :-(
ReplyDeletewe have lots of the cherry tomatoes, we call them cocktail tomatoes, am I right the small sweety ones size of cherries..then basilikum or basil is overflowing here..thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteyou mean, in terms of electricity?
ReplyDeleteI love tomatoes, I hope may picture ka when you do bottle some Nonzki..
ReplyDeleteYes.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds very nice, the ingredients are available as is the equipment required to make it. Perhaps I'll try it one day.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recipe.
*imagines Ted in Japan doing this over a fire out in the countryside..hmm..how would you get to the exact temperature degree?*
ReplyDeleteah..lucky you...I miss pickling and preserving food simply...I can't do it in my present habitat...
ReplyDeleteHa ha, it could be done, but would be very complicated.
ReplyDeleteDo what Ted would do, out in the forrest etc.
ReplyDeleteI think I better look for this in the grocery since the forests here may just swallow me up like Hansel and Gretel *grin*
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