Tomatoes are consumed in various ways and added to different dishes and drinks. From a botanical point of view, a tomato is a fruit, but is considered a vegetable because of its use in cooking.
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To add tomatoes to the dish, you need to be able to cut them correctly. It is sometimes difficult to cut tomatoes into cubes due to excess juice and seeds. Sliced tomatoes can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to a week.
- Take a tomato by one side, holding it on a hard surface. Insert a sharp peeling knife at the edge of the core to a depth of about 2 cm. Rotate the tomato around the axis, cutting the core to remove it from the tomato.
- Place the tomato on the cutting board down on the side where you core, if there are few seeds in the tomato. If there are a lot of seeds in a tomato, cut it in half, put it in a slice on a cutting board. Cut the tomato into slices of the desired thickness. In order to then cut the tomato into cubes, it is better to make slices with a thickness of 0.5 - 1 cm.
- Set aside the cut edges of the tomato. Put tomato slices on top of one another. Cut them into long narrow pieces no wider than 1 cm. Turn these pieces and cut across to make cubes.
- Fold the edges of the tomato one on top of the other peeling down. Cut as described above to make cubes.