My parents can tomatoes and are curious. They know its better to take them off, but can you leave them on after you boil them? They are planning on using them for chili tomatoes.
2007-08-09 12:37:25 · 16 answers · asked by Aaron 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
The skins will probably cook off the tomato and curl up. It wont hurt a thing but most people don't want a curled up piece of skin in their food. Having said that, the skin is good for you also.
I always blanch mine and peel off the skin. Generally, if you freeze the tomato and then blanch it, the skin will slide right off. Then I just cut them up and make my salsa or stewed tomato's. Works really great if you are pressure canning and let it boil down to a thick sauce if you are making tomato sauce for spaghetti and salsa.
However, do what you want if it is your food. I am sure what your folks make is good to eat and the skins wont hurt you at all. Better for you in fact.
2007-08-09 13:09:42 · answer #1 · answered by Ret. Sgt. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, most of the 'old fashioned tomatoes' had skins that were extremely tough, and they actually got MORE TOUGH when canned. If your parents are using one of the newer varieties of tomatoes, especially Roma tomatoes, then they may 'leave the skins on' ... they're far less 'tough' and add a bit of 'texture and bite' to the canned tomatoes. But I'm curious ... are your parents making canned tomatoes to add when they are making chili later, or are they putting the 'chili seasoning' in the tomatoes so that they can be either 'eaten heated as is' or added to chili?
2007-08-09 12:42:29 · answer #2 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leaving the skins on is the worst thing in the land for anyone with a hemorrhoid. It is so easy to remove the skins, just boil some water and drop the tomatoes in for less than a minute and the skins slip off like butter.
2007-08-09 12:46:56 · answer #3 · answered by lilabner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are able to circulate away the floor on once you're making a sauce. some recipes have the skins bumped off with the aid of fact with the aid of fact the tomatoes ruin down, the peels come off and that they curl up and specifically situations they do no longer seem reliable in the sauce.
2016-10-09 21:30:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't any problem leaving the skins on. I use the Microwave to cook tomatoes, and the skins come off anyway.I think for Chilli tomatoes, they could have the skins on.
2007-08-09 12:42:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can. But when you cook them, the skins tend to roll up and look like little sticks in your food. We normally take the skin off - I put them in the kitchen sink and fill it with boiling water. As I pull them out, I run them under cold water (mainly to make them a touchable temp) and the skin usually comes right off with no problem.
2007-08-09 12:45:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For smoother sauces I take the skin off. For the purpose of making seasoned tomatoes or salsa I have left them on. Either way they are delicious! Enjoy.
The groundhogs got most of my tomatoes this year.....:(
2007-08-09 12:45:15 · answer #7 · answered by justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remove the skin by plunging them into boiling water for 30 seconds, then into an ice bath the skin will peal off effortlessly
2007-08-09 12:42:32 · answer #8 · answered by a person of interest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't mind the skins in the chili ,you certainly can skip the step of blanching .
2007-08-09 12:42:30 · answer #9 · answered by doug g 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can leave the skin on if you like, an added bonus is the skin has a lot of anti-oxidents in them
2007-08-09 17:49:32 · answer #10 · answered by rome 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋