How to properly cut tomatoes for a salad: a simple detail that determines the taste of the dish

Cutting tomatoes for salad or other dishes is no joke. Much depends not only on a sharp knife, but also on the tomatoes themselves.

Some people think that vegetables also need to be peeled, especially if the skin is tight and dense. We will tell you what you really need to consider.

Choosing tomatoes

In winter, the choice is not very wide. Even if there are different varieties of tomatoes on the counter, most will taste the same - pale and indistinct.

The rest of the year there is something to think about.

If you prefer to peel vegetables, you need to choose not only ripe ones, but also firm fruits, and red ones, not pink ones.

The latter are suitable for fans of home cooking, where everything is quick, simple and no less tasty. Pink tomatoes are softer and it is not so easy to separate their pulp from the skin.

We cut

To peel tomatoes for salad, make a cross-shaped cut, dip the vegetables in boiling water for 30 seconds, and then in ice water. After that, the tomatoes are easy to peel, and the taste hardly changes.

To prevent peeled tomatoes from falling apart in a salad, they should not be cut into quarters. By the way, this way it is easier to remove the stem from the stalk, and the taste does not change at all.

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• 12 January 2023

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