When it comes to taking care of our body and our health, food is one of the central pillars of care. It is essential to pay attention to what we eat and how we eat it, since food is at the base of our health. Choosing to eat healthy is always going to be a beneficial option for our body, but many times we believe that we have to put aside rich and tasty foods. However, nowadays we can make a wide variety of recipes in our kitchen and enjoy multiple foods while taking care of our body. Today we are going to talk about the homemade fried tomato and show what its recipe is like.
The fried tomato is one of the most successful foods among the food dishes, especially in children. We have a multitude of options to choose from in the market, but if we want to eat something natural without preservatives or added additives, nothing better than doing it yourself.
In addition, eating tomato has a series of benefits for our body, do you know what they are? We show you!
Homemade fried tomato benefits
Making a homemade fried tomato has some advantages compared to raw tomato and especially compared to commercial fried tomato. Among the advantages that we find when preparing a homemade fried tomato, those that we list below stand out.
- Eliminate ingredients that are not natural : when making your own tomato you know the ingredients that you incorporate and you get rid of all additives and preservatives.
- Source of antioxidants : fried tomato has more antioxidants than raw tomato.
- Protects the probiotic strain : fried tomato accompanied by probiotic foods and diets enhances the properties of these elements.
How to make homemade fried tomato
As we have seen, consuming homemade fried tomato has very beneficial advantages for our body. And, now that we know that it is a good choice to accompany our dishes, let's see step by step how to make it .
Ingredients
To make homemade fried tomato we need:
- Natural tomatoes : approximately 2 kilograms
- Olive oil
- Sugar
- Salt
Elaboration process
Once we have the ingredients, we will see what its preparation consists of:
- We put water in a saucepan and bring it to a boil. We make a cross-shaped cut in the ass part of the tomatoes. We place the tomatoes in the boiling water for approximately 30 seconds and place them in a bowl with cold water.
- We remove the skin from the tomato, it will come out easily without any difficulty.
- After that, we chop the tomatoes and crush them, but not excessively.
- We put olive oil in a pan and when it is hot we add the tomato, a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of sugar. It is important to have a lid close by because the fried tomato jumps. We remove the tomato approximately every 10 minutes.
- At 25 minutes we add another tablespoon of sugar.
- About 25 more minutes will be ready, after a total of 45-50 minutes on the fire . We taste it and rectify it for salt or sugar if necessary.
