how do you substitute fresh tomatoes for canned tomatoes?

Answer 1

Depends on what your cookin hon... if it's pasta sauce, then you need to chop up your fresh tomatoes and cook them down abit..

Just judge for yourself....you can do it!

Answer 2

Depends on what you're cooking, just play with it a little. I grow and use a lot of fresh tomato's in al kinds of things. Good luck

Answer 3

How?? You just do it. Use a measure of any caliber and force as much fresh tomato into it as you can. ..until it is full enough to be compared to a can of tomatoes...thats all there is to it. fresh tastes better is all..i

Answer 4

Purchasing Tomatoes
Tomatoes don't develop adequate flavor unless allowed to ripen on the vine. Seek out locally grown tomatoes whenever possible. They may not be as "pretty" as store bought, but beauty, of course, is only skin deep.

Note: Fragrance is a better indicator of a good tomato than color. Use your nose and smell the stem end. The stem should retain the garden aroma of the plant itself - if it doesn't, your tomato will lack flavor and, as far as I'm concerned, will be good only for decoration!

Since fresh tomatoes are summer fare and off-season tomatoes are rarely flavorful, substitute canned Italian plum tomatoes in cooked dishes. Cook for ten minutes to reduce the liquid and enhance the taste.


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Storing & Ripening Tomatoes
NEVER REFRIGERATE FRESH TOMATOES! Cold temperatures make the flesh of a tomato pulpy and destroys the flavor.

To ripen, place green or unripened tomatoes in a brown paper bag and place in a dark spot for three or four days, depending on the degree of greenness. Do not put tomatoes in the sun to ripen - this softens them.


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Preserving Tomatoes
The simplest way to preserve tomatoes is to freeze them whole. Just rinse them, spread them out on a cookie sheet, and freeze overnight. When frozen, put them in a freezer bag and return to the freezer. To use, remove from bag and thaw. When thawed, slip the skins off, and use in your favorite recipes.

OR

Peel the tomatoes, puree them in a blender, and then strain them through cheesecloth or a coffee filer to drain off the excess tomato water (this can be used in soups). Freeze the pulp in ice cube trays. When frozen, store the frozen cubes in a freezer bag.


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Tomato Tips:
Add a pinch of sugar to tomatoes when cooking them. It enhances the flavor.

To keep baked or stuffed tomatoes from collapsing, bake in greased muffin tins. The tins will give them some support as they cook.

Tomato "water" - the clearish liquid that dribbles out of a sliced tomato, can be used as a low-acidity stand-in for lemon juice. This can be used in marinating raw fish.


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Answer 5

score the skin then blanch (in boiling water) about 30 sec. this will make them easy to peal. depending on use desead or not use as directed

Answer 6

peel them (make x in bottom, put in boiling water for a minute, shock in ice water, remove peel), seed them and dice, will taste much better than the canned.