It is not difficult to prepare, but it has a peculiar taste. Uzbek cuisine famous for its meat dishes: plov (there are dozens different recipes), barbecue, soups. Well, how in such a variety of meat dishes, do without a juicy side dish and salads. Tomatoes and onions are the main components of Uzbek salads. Consider how you can cook Uzbek traditional salad on your own.
Ingredients:
- Tomatoes, 4 things (tomatoes must be ripe, juicy and firm);
- Two onions (large or 3 small);
- One chili pepper;
- bell pepper, one;
- Fresh basil, one bunch;
- Ground black pepper;
- Salt.
Recipe: - how to cook?
At first glance, this salad contains a small amount of ingredients, which means that it is easy to prepare it. But in any traditional cuisine has its own characteristics and secrets of cooking. In order for our salad to turn out really Uzbek, you need to know a few tricks. The salad that we will prepare is served directly to meat dishes. There are certain rules for cooking, we will adhere to them when preparing a salad.- The very first rule is that you need to cut vegetables into a salad with a well-ground and sharp knife. We take an onion, we clean it. Cut the onion into thin rings. If the onion is large, then you can cut it into half rings. Onions give the salad a lot of unnecessary bitterness. In order to get rid of it, pour boiling water over the onion, or put it in cold water for a few minutes.
- While the bow is in the water. Let's take tomatoes. It also has its own technology. In this salad, they are cut not in longitudinal rings, but in transverse ones. Another secret is that you need to cut tomatoes in your hand, without using a board. Therefore, it is important to have sharp knife. Then the rings will be even, identical and neat.
- Chili pepper should be cut as small as possible. It will give a lot of sharpness. If you are worried that the salad will turn out too hot. Take less pepper, let's say a half, not a whole. Also, to reduce the sharpness, rinse it well inside with water. Cut the pepper in half and clean the seeds well under running water. This will make the chili less spicy and give a pleasant taste.
- Tear the basil leaves with your hands into small pieces without using a knife. Also, if you have desires, you can put other greens. The main thing is not to overdo it with her. Parsley, lettuce, a little mint, or arugula will do. Also chopped dill is suitable for salad.
- All salad ingredients are prepared. Let's move on to the culmination of our salad. We put all the product in a common salad bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. That's it, no mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, or other dressing is needed. This is also one of the rules of the Uzbek salad. Nothing more, because it will be a completely different dish.
To date, there are many recipes for canning fresh tomatoes. They can be prepared whole, or cut into slices. Let's figure out how to cook a tomato salad with onions for the winter. The appetizer is juicy, fragrant and very tasty. It can be put as self-dish on the festive table, or add a simple family dinner. Canned salad goes well with meat and fish dishes, boiled or fried potatoes, cereal side dishes.
How to cook canned tomato and onion salad for the winter
For cooking canned snacks it is necessary to choose tomatoes dense in structure, and any size can be. Rinse under running water and cut into circles, about 1 cm thick.
heads onion peel off the husk and rinse under water. We chop rings.
Wash two cans with a capacity of 0.5 liters with soap. Sterilize glass containers over water vapor or heat in the oven (at a temperature of no more than 100 degrees, until the container is completely dry). Rinse the lids and pour over with boiling water. At the bottom of the prepared jars, lay out a peeled clove of garlic, 5 peppercorns, 2 sprigs of parsley, a bay leaf. Similarly, lay the spices in the second jar.
We fill the container with tomatoes, alternating them with onion rings. 
After the jars are completely filled, at the very end add 1-2 rings hot pepper. He will give ready salad spicy and spicy taste.
Pour the required amount of water into the saucepan. Add salt, sugar and sunflower oil. Bring to a boil and heat for 3 minutes. Remove from stove and add vinegar, stir. 
Pour the marinade into jars with prepared salad, cover with processed lids. In a small saucepan, put a clean rag on the bottom, set the jars, pour warm water into the pan on the shoulders of the containers. Sterilize the tomato salad with onions for the winter in rings for 7 minutes, after the liquid in the pan boils.
After the time has elapsed, the jars of salad must be carefully removed, twisted and turned over.
Wrap with a warm terry towel until completely cooled. Ready canned salad put away in a cold place. 
- For delicious and fragrant snack for the winter it is necessary to use only fresh and high-quality products. You can not take rotten and moldy tomatoes. Minor surface damage can be cut off with a knife.
- Getting a richer marinade is easy. It is enough to cut the garlic into slices, and you can also add a clove inflorescence or cinnamon (for lovers).
- Tomatoes can be used in different colors - yellow, red, pink variety. You can supplement the workpiece with sweet peppers of different colors - red, yellow or green.
- Instead of table vinegar can be used Apple vinegar, we previously gave detailed recipe.
- Tomatoes are recommended to take elastic, but ripe. In this case, it will be convenient to cut them and they will not lose their shape during sterilization.
- If the fruits are small, they can not be cut. Whole tomatoes with onions also turn out fragrant and tasty.
There are complex dishes, there are simple ones, and there are the most simple ones. And their recipes take their place of honor in the culinary notebook of every housewife who is actively involved in cooking! Just one of these can be safely attributed tomato salad with onions. Probably even a cook child can cook this dish, if, of course, he wants to tinker a little in the kitchen. And even more so an adult home chef. And all because the two main ingredients present in this tomato and onion salad are on sale all year round both in the market and in the supermarket. And in the harvest season, they generally cost mere pennies.
A little about the benefits and taste
Well what can I say: so simple vegetable dish- tomato salad with onions - will be useful in the "unclosed" version, as a great addition to any table on weekdays and holidays. In addition, there is a lot of usefulness contained in these vegetables (especially in the summer and autumn seasons). Do you know that an ordinary onion is a natural aliment, that is, a product literally stuffed with easily digestible trace elements and vitamins, a natural drug that has a powerful antitumor effect. And in collaboration with tomatoes and spices, it forms a synergy - that is, all the properties of vegetables, when combined, become more powerful. 
Besides, it's beautiful and healthy dish can be closed and harvested for the cold season. The harvesting process is also very easy to handle. And the jars with delicious contents are from the "open and eat" series, nothing else needs to be added. And can these canned food be used as a dressing for other, more complex dishes(for example, for vegetable soups, stew, borscht) - so that the output of fantasy and its implementation are one hundred percent guaranteed. Well, are you ready to get started? Then let's go! 
Tomatoes with Onions: Salad Recipe (Basic)
The second stage - the preservation of tomato salad with onions - will be considered by us a little later, but now - fresh recipe"to the studio"! We will need to take: fresh tomatoes and onions in a ratio of two to one (that is, for example, for one kilogram of tomatoes - a pound of onions), fresh herbs to decorate the dish when served (dill sprigs, green onion feather), salt , vegetable oil (it is better to take olive or linseed) for dressing.
Cooking as simple as five cents
Tomato salad with onions for the winter
In many dishes home preservation harvested for the cold season, there are tomatoes and onions. And every housewife has her own "nurtured" recipes, without which the "cellar of supplies" cannot be called complete.
We will need: strong tomatoes - 5 kilos, onions - 2.5 kilos, lavrushka, allspice (a bag of peas), black pepper (similarly), cloves in buds, salt with sugar plus vinegar and vegetable oil.
How to close
in layers
And now - variations. You can thus place a salad in jars: a layer of tomatoes, a layer of onions, then repeat this design several times again. In principle, this cooking option is practically no different from the previous recipe - only appearance. But some housewives, defending their opinion, argue that using this method, onion rings (or half rings), as it were, separate the tomatoes, and the ingredient itself has a less harsh taste. What can I say: you can always cook part of the product in the first way, and part in the second way. And then, opening the jars, compare the taste and aromatic properties of both blanks. But a salad of tomatoes with onions and butter, in both cases, will remain no less healthy and tasty. So feel free to experiment, show your culinary imagination, suddenly you will be able to invent your own, no less interesting option popular preservation among the people, who knows. Yes, and bon appetit to you all!
