How to peel a tomato? (step-by-step recipe) Recipe
Difficulty: Easy
Chef's Note
Almost all the recipes require peeling a tomato, unless you're just using it in a salad!
To make this tedious chore easier, I'm providing you with the basic technique.
How to use it?
And then? Why not make these peeled tomatoes into a cooked tomato coulis, a versatile base for enhancing grilled fish, fresh pasta, sauces, and so on.
Ingredients
- tomatoes
Method
Follow the recipe step by step
Step 1

Cut a cross in the top of the tomatoes and gouge out the cores.
Drop the tomatoes into boiling water until the skin starts to split (about 10-20 seconds).
Then take them out...
Step 2

and plunge them into iced water.
Step 3

Lift out the tomatoes with a draining spoon and slip off the skins.
Step 4

Just pull on the skin gently and it will come off like a charm.
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