Keep Your Taste Buds and Health Happy with these Varieties of Tomatoes

Tomato is a wonderful fruit-cum-vegetable. It adds a great tang to our savory delicacies and is health-giving too. We can use it in salads, vegetarian as well as meat preparations, and can make soup and sauce from it. However, only a few of you might be aware that tomatoes are of different types like San Marzano tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, Little Mama, Big Mama and Tangerine Mama tomatoes and more, and if we use particular tomatoes to make each of these dishes, the dishes will be still greater to taste. Let’s see the wonderful varieties of tomato.

Super Italian Paste Tomatoes

This is an heirloom variety native to Italy and is absolutely full of flavor. The fruit is six-inch long and is reddish-orange in color. Its firm, rich flesh is perfect for making paste and sauce.

Amish Paste Tomatoes

This is originated from Pennsylvania Amish and is a large bright red meaty tomato with an amazing taste. It is perfect for sauces and also for salads and salsas to enjoy them fresh.

Roma Tomato

Roma tomato is famous for its rich meat with less seeds and a great taste. It is ideal for sauces, salads, salsa and pastes.

San Marzano Tomato

This too is an heirloom variety. This tomato is long and blocky containing a very small seed cavity which can be ladled out to leave abundant amount of savory meat inside. This is a perfect tomato for making sauces, and also for drying and canning.

Viva Italia

This variety is perfect for making soups and ketchups. It’s sheer joy to grow this plant and fruit with the plant growing vigorously and bearing solid three-ounce fruits.

Big Mama

This is a plum-shaped, enormous and extremely meaty variety with a massive five-inch length and three-inch width. You need not peel and core it and can easily make thick sauces of this sweet-flavored tomato.

Little Mama

This variety comes in huge clusters of 3 to 4 ounce tomato resembling the Roma tomatoes. It has a rich flesh perfect for chutneys and salsa.

Tangerine Mama

This is a lovely orange variety and offers a beautiful orange color to your dish. Each fruit is plump and weighs 3-4 ounces and has a strong tangy flavor, so is perfect for sauce.

Fresh Salsa

The name itself suggests the goodness of this variety – you can make a delicious fresh salsa from it! Its specialty is you can easily cut it into small cubes and still it remains solid and firm, unlike other varieties. This tomato is full of meat and is therefore perfect for salsa, very light Italian sauces and bruschettas.

Polish Linguisa

This is an heirloom variety and makes one of the tastiest pastes. The fruit is 3 to 4 inch long and is very fleshy thus ideal for sauces as well as for drying. It is also very good for making firm slices for sandwiches and salads.

So, make a variety of delicious dishes with these varieties of tomatoes and keep your taste buds as well as health happy!

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