Why remove the skin and seeds of a tomato?
Many recipes ask for peeled and seeded tomatoes, which I find both wasteful and too hard work.
What is the point of removing seeds and skin of tomatoes? Just texture and presentation? Or can it actually change the food's taste?
Best Answer
Texture is the main reason, but if you're going to be blending the sauce, there can be off-flavors from cracking open the seeds. Even if you don't blend it, they can be these slippery little things that I never much liked growing up.
To reduce the amount of waste, you can :
cook the sauce, then put it through a food mill to strip out the seeds and skins, thus keeping you from wasting the gel around the seeds.
freeze the peeled skins, to save for when you're next going to be making vegetable stock.
collect the seeds and gel, then put it into a muslin bag and hang to let drip to extract 'tomato water'. (you typically use crushed tomatoes for this ... I don't know for sure if the gel will go through the muslin). Tomato water is strange as it gives good tomato flavor, without the red color.
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Removing the skin and seeds from a tomato creates a smoother texture of the end dish. Cut an X into the skin of the tomato. Try to avoid cutting into the flesh.Why should you remove the seeds and skin from the tomatoes?
Why would you peel tomatoes? The tomato skin is a different texture from the tomato flesh, and will remain so in sauces and pur\xe9es\u2014you'll get tiny chunks of skin instead of an uniformly smooth mixture. Moreover, the tomato skin is heavy in a kind of nutrient called flavonols, which impart a bitter flavor.Is it better to remove seeds from tomatoes?
Since the seeds don't harm the flavor and removing them is a hassle, we'll be leaving them in. If you choose to remove the seeds for aesthetic reasons, be sure to strain off and use the flavorful gel that surrounds them.Should you eat tomato seeds and skin?
Much like the fruit, the seeds are also beneficial for skin, heart, weight management and immunity. Apart from that, tomato seeds are good for digestion and are loaded with digestive fiber and amino acids, which help in better absorption of nutrients, improve metabolism and gut health.Should I remove the skin from tomatoes?
When you want the texture of a dish-such as salsa, soup, jam or sauce-to be as smooth as silk, removing tomato skin is the way to go. Tomatoes don't need to be peeled with a blade like carrots and potatoes do.Leave Those Seeds and Skin Out Of My Tomato Sauce!
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Answer 2
It depends on the tomatoes. Sometimes the skin and seeds are SO bitter. I recently made a sauce and it was inedible because of the bitterness, so i made a new one with tomatoes from the same batch and removed the skin and seeds and it tasted delicious. Often winter tomatoes are the ones to watch out for. Summer ones tend to be much sweeter and can be used whole.
Answer 3
No need to peel tomatoes to make delicious sauce! Peeling is total nonsense and work that is unnecessary! Just make your sauce according to the recipe you like, and after cooking, use a hand held mixer to grind the mix in the pot until desired smoothness is achieved! No skins will be evident!
Answer 4
Aside from the answers already provided, there are many people who have problems digesting tomato seeds and skins, people with an ileostomy bag for example would probably want to avoid the seeds if possible.
Answer 5
Presentation and texture...Imagine a reduced tomato sauce with all the seeds of all the tomatoes you started with swimming around in there. It'd be some very strange spaghetti sauce. Additionally the goop around the seeds is mostly water and no flavor.
Answer 6
If you don't want the liquid or seeds, squeeze it out. What remains is the skin and pulp. If you don't want the skin this can easily be removed by blanching the whole tomato and removing the skin first.
Tomato and peppers are in the nightshade family. When I roast red peppers I do the same thing, remove the skin and seeds. I feel this intensifies the flavors and improves the textures.
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