It is often necessary to peel a tomato. It will interfere if you are preparing tomato sauce, for example, or some particularly delicate salad. Yes, even if you cook soup, why do you need tomato peels floating in the pan? Better to clean it up.
Moreover, this procedure is not too complicated if you know the laws of physics and have a pan of boiling water and a bowl of ice on hand. Alexey Moiseev, chef at the pasta bar Tempo di Pasta, showed us how to quickly remove the skin from a tomato :
Helpful Tips:
When you make a cross-shaped cut, you can easily cut through the flesh of the tomato too, it is not necessary to cut only the skin.
You need to use a sharp knife for cutting, otherwise you will simply crush the tomato.
It is better to use iced water after boiling water, and not just cold water from the tap. Then the temperature contrast will be greater, the tomatoes will shrink more, and the skin will be removed more easily.
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Ice in the refrigerator, and in general an ice bath will be very useful to you. After blanching green vegetables, such as broccoli or even green salad, they are dipped in ice to, firstly, stop the cooking process (the cabbage will remain crisp and elastic, and will not become boiled and soft), and secondly, so that the vegetables do not lost their bright color.
Grilled mini squid with tomato tartare
Recipe by Igor Kotov, chef of the non-bistro Geraldine
Photo: Neobistro “Geraldine”
1 serving
- 120 g squid tentacles
- 100 g mini squid
- 50 g sweet tomatoes
- 5 g cilantro
- 1 tooth garlic
- 10 ml olive oil
Step 1: Quickly grill the mini squid and squid tentacles.
Step 2. Then add sliced garlic and olive oil. Fry quickly again. Place on a plate.
Step 3 . Remove the skin from the tomatoes, cut into 4 parts and remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into cubes. The result was concasse tomatoes.
Nutritional and energy value:
| Ready meals | |||
| kcal 1042.5 kcal | proteins 19.5 g | fat 51.2 g | carbohydrates 123 g |
| Portions | |||
| kcal 52.1 kcal | proteins 1 g | fat 2.6 g | carbohydrates 6.2 g |
| 100 g dish | |||
| kcal 135.4 kcal | proteins 2.5 g | fat 6.6 g | carbohydrates 16 g |
Concasse
In culinary recipes you can often find the ingredient: tomatoes/concasse tomatoes. This word means a tomato that has been peeled, seeded and diced. This ingredient is often used to prepare sauces, as a side dish for meat, seafood, as an ingredient for appetizers...
Concasse tomatoes are sold canned. They are very convenient to use for sauces and soups. But for salads, sandwiches, side dishes, all those dishes where the tomato must remain fresh, such tomatoes in cans are not suitable, they have a very specific taste, we know it from “tomatoes in their own juice.” And it’s not always possible to use them for hot dishes; they may be too moist, for example, for Greek tomato cutlets. The recipe for which we will give below
So you still have to peel the tomatoes.
We share recipes for dishes for which you will find our video useful:
Bread baskets with tomato concasse
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