Kitchen Tip Tuesday: Freezing tomatoes
I hesitated to post this tip because I am positive the majority of you already know about it, but I decided to go ahead with it since it's helped me so much.
If you have a lot of extra tomatoes - either from your garden or from a good deal you found at the store - you can stick them whole in the freezer (cut the tops off if you prefer). When you are ready to use them (in soups, sauces, etc.), just pull them out of the freezer and run a little warm water on them and the peel comes right off. Then just chop and use!
I did this yesterday with some vine-ripened cherry tomatoes I'd gotten a few weeks ago reduced for $0.29/bag. I had popped the whole bags into the freezer after I bought them and then yesterday I just dumped them in warm water and slipped off all the peels then halved them and used them in tomato soup.
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If you have a lot of extra tomatoes - either from your garden or from a good deal you found at the store - you can stick them whole in the freezer (cut the tops off if you prefer). When you are ready to use them (in soups, sauces, etc.), just pull them out of the freezer and run a little warm water on them and the peel comes right off. Then just chop and use!
I did this yesterday with some vine-ripened cherry tomatoes I'd gotten a few weeks ago reduced for $0.29/bag. I had popped the whole bags into the freezer after I bought them and then yesterday I just dumped them in warm water and slipped off all the peels then halved them and used them in tomato soup.Visit Tammy's Recipes for more kitchen tips!
posted by Crystal Paine at 2:52 PM
11 Comments:
Thanks for posting this! I did not know you could do that with tomatoes. This is a VERY handy tip for me. I hate to think of the tomatoes I have wasted in the past when I could have frozen them! :)
I've never heard before!!! I always just figured tomatoes couldn't be frozen. Thanks!
Well, I didn't know you could freeze them with the skins on! I usually blanch them, shock them in cold water, and then peel them first. But now I will be able to save time!
Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for the tip. I did not know this either!
Carla
Well, I didn't know it, so thanks for the tip!
Don't hesitate to post things like this, Crystal -- I had no idea you could do this! LOL I've been curious about freezing some for salsa -- do they get really 'mushy'? I'm wondering if it would be better to freeze the whole tomato or to just make up the salsa and freeze that instead? Any ideas?
Debi
Thanks for a very handy tip. My local Le Pig (Piggly Wiggly) often has veggies in the old and highly marked down veggie bin. Now I will know what to do with those tomatoes.
Joy
I didn't know this either. I thought you had to make a sauce out of tomatoes if you wanted to freeze them.
another reader thanks you for sharing! :-)
Yet another thank you! This is a great tip. I still want to learn how to can when we get moved back to WA (where I have a friend I can learn from), but in the meantime this will help me stock up and save! We use a LOT of diced tomatoes. Woohoo! This might help me cut down on the canned ones from the store!
What a great tip--simple, easy, fast! Thanks.
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