Fermented Tomatoes & Basil
Fermented Tomatoes & Basil

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, fermented tomatoes & basil. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fermented Tomatoes & Basil is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Fermented Tomatoes & Basil is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Fermented tomatoes are soft, tangy, sour, yet still hold the tomato taste… It's an interesting combination of tastes, I have to admit. You can eat them by themselves as a healthy snack. You can add them to sandwiches or salads, or as a side for an egg salad or a tuna salad or a chicken salad (or any other dish, really).

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fermented tomatoes & basil using 3 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Fermented Tomatoes & Basil:
  1. Take 196 g tomatoes and basil
  2. Make ready 9.7 g salt
  3. Take water

Yes, there's bubbles on the inside! The result is a super tangy-sweet tomato bomb that explodes and fizzes in your mouth every time. Watch the Fermented Tomatoes and Basil recipe video. Here is a Fermented Tomatoes Recipe that you can use to make any type of fermented vegetable, including Fermented Cherry Tomatoes with Basil.

Steps to make Fermented Tomatoes & Basil:
  1. Remove tomato tops and wash with basil
  2. Place glass jar on the scale and zero
  3. Add tomatoes and basil to the jar (196g including roughly 10 basil leaves and the remaining weight tomatoes)
  4. Fill the jar with water and note the final weight (389g)
  5. Complete the following calculation final weight x 2.5% = ? (389 x 2.5% = 9.7g)
  6. Decant the water from the tomatoes and basil
  7. The sum of the equation is the salt you need to add, stir this salt into the decanted water and then pour the mixture back in to the tomatoes and basil
  8. Fill a plastic bag with a little water to act as a weight
  9. Place plastic bag weight on jar and loosely top with a lid
  10. Leave to ferment on side for 3-10 days, taste to determine when it is done and then place in the fridge ready to use when you need

This lacto-fermentation process creates lacto-fermented tomatoes that are rich in probiotics and are good for gut health. The tomatoes went off rather fermented, i am guessing the brine lost it's potency and that there was too much residue in the brine even tho' i filtered it. Now making more with fresh brine! As for the brine, some do reuse it, I. Fermented Tomatoes is a traditional Russian recipe.

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