Recipe

Bottled tomatoes

Preserve your own bottle tomatoes with this recipe from Australian Women's Weekly.

Dec 31, 2009 1:00pm
  • 10 mins preparation
  • 1 hr cooking
  • 36 hrs marinating
  • Makes 2
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Ingredients

Bottled tomatoes
  • 16 egg tomatoes (1.5kg), peeled
  • 3 cup (750ml) tomato juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse cooking salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar

Method

Bottled tomatoes
  • 1
    Pack tomatoes into two hot sterilised preserving jars (each 1 litre/4 cups), fitted with rubber rings.
  • 2
    Combine juice, salt and sugar in small saucepan; bring to a boil. Slowly pour boiling juice over tomatoes until jars are filled to within 1cm of top; seal immediately with lids and clips. Place jars, not touching, in baking dish, add enough boiling water to come 3cm up sides of jars.
  • 3
    Stand in very slow oven 1 hour. Remove jars carefully from dish; cool. Stand 36 hours before removing clips.

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