When it comes to homemade pasta sauces, baby food, or a variety of other dishes, knowing how to efficiently skin a tomato is vital.
Method
1. Cut a cross in the top of the tomatoes and gouge out the cores.
2. Drop the tomatoes into boiling water until the skin starts to split (about 10-20 seconds). Take them out and plunge them into iced water
3. Lift the tomatoes off and slip off the skins by pulling on them gently.
Did You Know?
Tomatoes are loaded with Vitamin C, carotenes, biotin and vitamin K. Tomatoes are most nutritious when fully ripe. In fact, a fully ripe, red tomato contains four times the amount of beta-carotene as a green tomato!
