How To Peel Tomatoes
Source of Recipe
About.com
List of Ingredients
Here's How:
1. Fill saucepan with water (just enough to cover the tomatoes you'll be adding), and put on to boil.
2. Wash tomatoes. Core them by cutting around the stem end with the tip of your paring knife.
3. Cut an X through the skin at the bottom end of the tomato.
4. Set up bowl with very cold (preferably iced) water alongside stove.
5. When water in saucepan boils, carefully lower one or two tomatoes into saucepan with ladle or skimmer.
6. After five seconds, check the ends of the tomatoes. When the skin on the X'ed end looks like it's separating or the skin on the cored end looks like it's peeling away from the tomato, you're done. (This can take between 5 and 30 seconds, depending on the ripeness of the tomatoes and how vigorously your water is boiling.)
7. Remove tomatoes immediately from water with ladle and place in cold water bath.
8. Wait for water to come back to a boil, and repeat with additional tomatoes until you're done.
9. When all tomatoes are cooled. Remove from cold water.
10. To peel, turn tomato so the X'ed end is up. Grab one of the four points of skin between your thumb and a paring knife blade. Pull gently to remove.
11. Repeat until all skin is removed.
Tips:
Peel tomatoes when: a) the recipe calls for it; b) you'll be pureeing the tomatoes for a sauce that needs a uniform texture and consistency; c) you or someone you're cooking for is sensitive to tomatoes (this can be true of people with gastric reflux dises -- GERD -- or ulcers).
Using a ladle or skimmer to place tomatoes in the saucepan keeps the boiling water from splashing on you.
If skin breaks or tears while you're peeling, it will generally leave another point, which you can grab to continue peeling until all skin is removed.
What You Need:
Tomatoes
Saucepan
Bow of very cold (preferably iced) water
Ladle or skimmer
Recipe
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