Nova Scotia Green Tomato Chow | Canning Recipe | How to make Green Tomato Chutney / Chow
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2022
- Hi Neighbours, I grew up in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, and we grew up eating this green tomato chow. I love it. I loved it especially with Sunday suppers / dinner along side some mashed potatoes and other veggies. I hope you enjoy the video and recipe. Below are the ingredients ect... Have a wonderful and blessed day.
There are many different recipes for this. I love putting some brown sugar in mine
Ingredients
For the sugar below you can use all white or all brown. I like using half of each
8 pounds whole green tomatoes chopped into bite sized peices
2.5 pounds medium white onions sliced
¼ cup pickling salt
2 cups white sugar
1.5 cups brown sugar
3 cups pickling vinegar or white vinegar
1 cup white wine vinegar
2 teaspoon pickling spice
½ teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon turmeric
¼-1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
INSTRUCTIONS
Preparing & Salting The Vegetables
Sort through all the green tomatoes. The tomatoes should be firm, green, with no black spots, signs of disease, or pests. Remove all leaves, stems, and flower nubs. Wash really well.
Once the tomatoes are washed, cut the green tomatoes slice the tomatoes into thin slices or you can do bite size chunks if you like just try to keep them as uniform as possible.
Once the tomatoes are sliced up, peel and slice the white onion. Cut the onion slices to be a little smaller than the tomato.
Mix the sliced onions and chopped green tomatoes together in a large bowl or pot. Add the pickling salt, and mix well. Cover the pot/bowl and put in cool place for like 8-11 hours or so or over night
Once the salted vegetables have sat overnight, pour off any resulting brine liquid from the pot/bowl and discard it. Drain well and rinse to prevent from being too salty. A large colander works well.
In a separate small saucepan or bowl, mix your the vinegars and spices with the 3 cups of your sugar. Mix well until all the sugar has dissolved. This is your pickling liquid.
Transfer the drained onion and tomato mixture to a large pot, add the pickling liquid to the pot, and bring to a simmer over high heat. Once the pot starts to simmer, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer the tomato chow for about 1.5 - 2 hours stirring occasionally . During the last half hour of cooking stir the pot more frequently to prevent any scorching on the bottom.
Canning The Green Tomato Chow
Info below here I found explains it well so I am using this info and method below for you all
During the time that the green tomato chow is simmering on the stove, assemble, wash, and prepare all your canning equipment.
This includes: washing all equipment, pots, and jars/lids in hot soapy water, heating the washed snap lids and rings for at least 10 minutes, boiling the washed glass jars for 10 minutes prior to filling (keep jars and lids in hot water until ready to fill), setting out a dishcloth and rack on which the processed jars can cool, ensuring you have all tongs, ladles, stir spoons, and funnels you plan on using properly washed and dried.
Use your canning tongs to carefully remove a glass jar from the hot water (one at a time). Gently pour the water back into the pot, then fill the hot glass jar with the hot green tomato chow. Repeat this process until all glass jars are filled, leaving ½ inch of headspace at the top. Work carefully, yet quickly to prevent the tomato chow and jars from cooling too much.
Once all the jars are filled, use a clean dampened cloth to wipe all the jar rims, removing any spilled chow, and leaving a clean surface for the flat lids to seal to. Place a snap lid on each filled jar, followed by the metal ring, making sure not to twist the ring on too tightly. Fingertip tight is plenty!
Using the canning tongs, gently place the filled jars of green tomato chow back into the large pot of boiling water. Ensure there is at least 1 inch of water above the lids of the jars.
Bring the canning pot to a roiling boil, and process the green tomato chow chow for 5 minutes at altitudes below 1000ft, 10 minutes for altitudes between 1000ft -6000ft, and 15 minutes for altitudes above 6000ft. Start the time only when the pot is at a rolling boil.
Cooling and Storing
Once the green tomato chow chow has been processed for the proper time as indicated above, turn off the pot of water and let the jars sit until the water has stopped boiling, about 5 minutes. Carefully remove the jars one at a time with your canning tongs, and place them on a dishtowel or rack to cool for 24 to 48 hours at room temperature. You should hear the lids pop as the jars begin to cool down, indicating an air-tight seal.
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Jerri-ellen!!! We are HERE for this!!!!!
Looked delicious, sign us up!
Thank you both very much. Hope all is well
I’m excited for more Sunday suppers !
I think I am going to do one video a week doing full meal with the fam on Sundays and once and a while another video during the week
Hi my sweet friend it has been awhile. Hope all is well with you. I love green tomatoes my neighbor gave me some from her garden and I made fried green tomatoes so good. Thank you for sharing jerri-ellen have a blessed day stay safe and healthy. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏
Hi Debbie nice to see you Thank you . I hope all is well my friend
This is awesome! I hope you're having a blessed weekend my friend 😎
Th Al you Jason!
Hey Ms. Jerri Ellen! These are beautiful! I know that cousin Mel will enjoy these too!
Thank you. We grew up on green tomato chow. Had with our Sunday suppers. Thank you so much for watching
looks great 💚
The Bills look like the could in the Super Bowl this year 🏈
Hi Chappy they are doing so well so far. It’s exciting. Got you playing on my laptop
Hi Jerri Ellen, your tomatoes look delicious, your all set for winter.
Hi My dearest and awesome friend. Thank you so much
hey Sis that new microphone you have is amazing such crisp and excellent sound coming through I have tasted Green Tomato pickle and its delicious however i think the way you made yours is a game changer thanks for sharing have a good weekend
Thank you my sweet and dear brother Andrew. I love this with mashed potatoes on Sundays so good. I wish I could bring you over some for you and Mama to try with your Sunday supper
Let me watch 😋😋
Thank you
Hello from Saint John nb, thanks for sharing this recipe.
Hi Stacy, nice to meet you thank you for visiting. I appreciate it very much. I’m glad that you like this recipe and thanks for the time that you give me to watch and comment. I hope that you visit again and I hope that you give us a try it’s absolutely delicious. Nice to see an East coaster here, I hope that you consider subscribing because I have more recipes in the future that are from the East Coast and other parts of Canada. Have a great day. Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
😀Good morning Beautiful Jerri! I just saw your notification and had to stop on by!!
canning is so amazing...I wish that we could have some!!! LOLOL...So good seeing you Sis!! Peace and Love, V. 😀
Hey hey V. Thank you Sis. Much love and I sure hope you have a blessed day!!
Love this recipe
Woow this absolutely great ma'am, thanks for sharing maa
Thank you very much
Great video. You do not need to sterilize anything if you waterbath 10 minutes or more. This saves a lot of time and effort. This is great stuff!!!!!
Oh wow Gisele I didn’t know that. Thank you thank you for watching and commenting. I do appreciate it very much.
Omg, amazing! Thank you for showing us how todo this! Can’t wait to try! Xo, j
Hi Jewels thank you so so much 🤗
Nice 👍👍
Looks great! Thanks for sharing Jerri-ellen!
Thank you Jessi
This looks so good. ❤
Thanks Linda. I have other canning videos but I think I will make this the last canning video for now and get back to cooking lol. Thanks for watching my friend
Thank you Jerri-ellen for the video and the recipe. I am from Ontario and grew up on PEI. My mother( God rest her soul) used to make that chow. When I saw your video I decided to try my hand at making it as we had lots of green tomatoes left over in the garden. I just finished canning them this morning. I sampled the leftovers and it tasted good. However, I do think it tasted a bit too vinegary. I didn't use wine vinegar, instead, I used all-white vinegar (3.5 cups) I am wondering if that made a difference. If it did I will remember next year to follow your recipe to the letter. Thank-you 👍👍👍
Hi my fellow Canadian and maritime or miss placed lol. I am also in Ontario i grew up on Cape Breton Islas. Sorry about your Mom. We have family in P.E.I. I find the white vinegar a lot stronger than the red wine vinegar and since we need the asset for canning to keep it shelf stable I find that with this recipe using the red wine vinegar, much better substitute for the white vinegar and it does give it to a milder vinegary taste, so yeah, hopefully you will try again next year and I hope that you will still enjoy the fact that you made. I appreciate you so much for taking time out of your day to spend it here and try the recipe and I can’t thank you enough for that. I hope that you have a beautiful week ahead and hope to see you again sometime. 🤗 🇨🇦
Hi Jerri Ellen! Wow this looks really delicious. Great job showing us how to can. 😊♥️
Hi Mindy thanks 🤗
The sealing of the can is so cool. I bet it tastes amazing! Happy Sunday.❤
I love this stuff lol but we grew up on it
I need to try green tomatoes ! This looks amazing! Thanks for another canning recipe!
we grew up on these so so good. Thanks Sherry
Love this, we have been doing lots of canning too- today making two types of apple butter- hope Mel let’s you in the island 🤣😂🤣😂
Hi Jim thank you my sweet neighbor for visiting. I sure do appreciate it. I need to catch up with you. I hope all is well 🤗
Awesome video! Thank you, I’ll be making some soon with my leftover green tomatoes from my greenhouse. I’m in Nova Scotia as well.
Hi Neighbour! 👋 so nice to meet you. Thank you so much for stopping by. My husband is from new Waterford and I am from Sydney. Hope you are enjoying the week and I hope to see you again. I love this stuff it’s so good. Hope you enjoy 🤗
@@CookingWithNeighbors I’m from St Margaret’s Bay actually, near Peggy’s cove. My buddy Ryan O’Shea is from New Waterford though!
Green tomatoes so healthy I love your recipe thank you for sharing sister
Thank you so much
NS food from a real NSian!!
Thank you MC
I would love to try this!! I’m sure Mel will love it when she tries it.
Thank you Sonia !!!
I have never tried this Jerri looks yummy 😋 I like to can as well.
I really enjoying canning! Thank you so much for visiting much appreciated
Hi Neighbour!!! Looks tasty! Never heard of green tomato chow. It must be an Eastern dish. I want to try it! I hope you have an amazing trip back home! Take care! 🙂
Hi Lisa, thank you so very much for checking this out. Yes the Maritimes in Canada this is very popular to have with Sunday suppers ect.. Hope all is well. Harrietta will be back in videos now that she is starting to feel a bit more like herself. She hasn't been feeling well. Hope you have a great week
@@CookingWithNeighbors Oh poor girl! 😢 Glad she’s feeling better! 💜 Have a great week! 😊
I need to dig out my canning gear. I make a similar pickle called green tomato chutney. I may even record it for a video, but that could be a tough one due to my lack of space and the need for space when canning. Great video as always Jerri!
Hi Pete oh goodness I thought no one was going to be able to relate out side the maritimes in Canada. I was like gee no one will know this chow/ chutney what am I doing lol. Thanks Pete for watching. I love chutney and green tomato may be my favourite! Much love always my friend
Hey, Jerri Ellen 🌻🍁💖. You are making my mouth water 😂🤣. This sounds and looks so delicious! Thank you so much for sharing sweetie pie ❤️
Thank you so much Phyllis. I hope you have a blessed day my friend
Hey Beautiful Friend!! OMG when I saw that big box of green tomatoes it made me so happy!!! You know how much I love them fried!! but I have never had green tomato Chow!! It looks so delicious and I will definitely be making it when I get my hands on some more green tomatoes!!!
Hi Karen thank you so much friend!! It’s great with mashed potatoes lol. Have a good one and enjoy the rest of the week 🤗
Hi Jerri Ellen how are you feeling good I hope. Your chowder looks amazing never had it before . Would like to try it have to get Terry to help me make some. Feeling a little better meds are starting to work. Well you have a great day and we’ll see you on your next video. Much love Terry and Ron
Hi Ron hi Terry!! Thank you ! We grew up eating this at most Sunday suppers 🤗 I am happy to hear the meds are working. That is a relief!! We are all doing very well on our end. It’s a nice day today so we are doing some outdoor work. I hope you both have a wonderful and relaxing day full of smiles !
Thank you for this. I haven't hunted around but my superstore stopped carrying it 😫 oh well, homemade is best anyway 😊
I do hope you get a chance to make it some day. We love it. Are you from the east coast? Nice to meet you. Nice of you to stop by. 🤗
I do love your new mic!
Me too loo
Green Tomato Chow YUMMO Jerri-ellen can I order a dozen jars please?!???!?!!?!
Thanks Patrick means a lot truly ! Hope you have a wonderful week!!
Thank You
And thank you for stopping by and liking this. Means a lot to me. Hope you have a wonderful day Yvonne 🤗
This looks so good….. I will definitely have to try this next year! I’ve never used Green Tomato’s in anything before…. Looks amazing 😊
Hi Tory Omgsh this is my absolute favourite canning recipe. We grew up on the stuff. Definitely give it a try. Don’t use white vinegar though use the wine one I did because when people substitute and use white it’s not the same at all. So nice of you to be here thanks for that
Chow is amazing good. First time I had it was when I was about 6 years old at my grandmother's place. It's great stuff! You can use it like a condiment same as you would relish, or you can put some on your plate and use it the same way we use cranberries with our turkey dinners. You won't be disappointed
@@CookingWithNeighbors
The recipe says 2.5 c pickling vinegar or white vinegar and it also say’s 1 cup Wine vinegar.
You stated in comments to not use White Vinegar…..so 2.5c + 1 cup all White Wine vinegar?
I remember my mom making this stuff,and a whole lot more when I was a kid growing up in British Columbia Canada...didn't realize she had brought it over from Nova Scotia where we lived previously. 🤷♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤯
Hi Nice toMeat you Mr Rock. 👋 yes this is so popular in Nova Scotia and so yummy too 😃 what part of Nova Scotia did you live? Hope all is well and you are having a great week. Thank you for visiting appreciate it.
@@CookingWithNeighbors ...we lived in Truro for a while.
@@MrRickjitsu nice !! Sorry I spelled your name wrong
seems like green tomatoes are really getting popular! I totally need to try them, would you believe I never have? I'm really enjoying the canning recipes! I don't do it often but I'd love to do more. Must be so delicious Jerri, enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
Hi Anadi you are so kind. Thank you. I have others o pre recorded but not sure if the canning is being well received so I dj t know if I will post. I have a menu plan for dinners I think I will go with lol. Thanks for being my friend
The FUNNIEST UNFUNNY GUY WAS HERE!!!
I bet those are delicious! I don't think I ever had them . I've had fried green tomatoes. Watching you can brings back memories! I'm sure Mel will be so happy to get some👍.
Hi Shelly means a lot you watched cause I am not sure many are liking the canning recipes lol. It’s raining here today hubby and I just left the Walmart and getting a coffee. I hope your day is going well my friend
@@CookingWithNeighbors Enjoy day together! 🙂💙🍁 I watch all your videos, you are doing a great job...I'd be all over the place 😂
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!THIS is what im looking for! I miss nova scotia chow chow. I grow enough tomatoes every year to fill a pantry with the stuff. I never learned how to make it before leaving there though, so im looking forward to trying your recipe
Hi Makayla 👋 so nice of you to visit. Oh my goodness then you will love these. I grew up in Cape Breton. I’m from Sydney my husband is from new Waterford. I am going to be sharing more recipes from back home as well. Where did you move to if you don’t mind me asking. We live in Ontario now. I still miss home. Have a wonderful day hun.
I was just outside halifax, and like you i moved to ontario. In wasaga beach now. I do MASSIVE outdoor gardening, and this year im planning on greatly expanding what i grow on my postage stamp yard. Each year i grow 3 or 4 tomato plants and get enough to use fresh as they grow plus preserve enough to last almost all through winter.
This year im going to try my hand at broccoli, green onions, cucumbers, cauliflower (if i have enough planters to add that to the list of new additions), as well as my standard legumes, and maybe a couple things i forget now. I love growing bush beans, but cant always find the seeds for them, so im crossing my fingers this will be my lucky year.
@@makaylaforbes6719 I love that area ! Wow your garden sounds amazing!! I live near Guelph we were in Georgetown Halton shills now in Centre Wellington .
@@CookingWithNeighbors I was in Guelph for a short time about 15 years or so back. Liked it there. I'm thinking of moving further north if I move again, but I'm not in a rush.
My yard us incredibly small. I mean small to the point that only 4 small cars could fit in the ground space I have. But I've been working on maximizing the use of the space both for growing for long term consumption, and still having space to relax comfortably. Once I get that figured out, I'll likely do a series to post on here to show people how it's possible for almost anyone to knock a chunk off their spending, and food is a massive monthly cost, and that cost only rises. The setup I currently have for growing my tomatoes and jalapenos is tiny, so small it could fit on pretty much any balcony, and eyeballing it, takes up less than 18 square feet. I designed and built the rack I use for growing those 2 items myself, and I'm thinking about building a new one that will accommodate for growing herbs on the same rack without using up any extra space. And son of a gun, as I'm writing this, I just thought of a way to add a way to grow things like strawberries on that rack as well. Maybe next year I'll build it (unless the 6 year old in my head won't let me wait that long).
I'm renting right now, and all the electrical running through the property (I'm in a cottage court, so we all have our own cottages in my neighbourhood) is underground, so I wouldn't want to even think of digging the ground up, so everything I grow is above ground in planters. Here's the part that's most shocking where it comes to my vegetable gardening. My front yard is mostly shade, so while some things are shade loving, those things tend to be your leafy green varieties like lettuce and spinach, etc, and as far as I know atm (I'll be investigating further later on) are best fresh, so I grow everything besides my herbs in the space between my cottage and my neighbour's, which CAN'T be more than 120 square feet and I still have room to sit and relax comfortably with company with everything I'm currently planting back there, and will continue to have great use even with what I'm planning to add in this year.
@@makaylaforbes6719 keep me posted on your garden sounds awesome. 💕
Hi Jerri-Ellen, Those tomatoes look amazing and I can smell your tasty green tomato chow here. Thank you for sharing your video and recipe. The Mic is a good idea, but be careful with having it to close to your neck it will feedback when moving around. Have a lovely day and keep those recipes coming..... :) Bonita
Hi Bonita, oh wow good point thanks for the advise I should clip it lower from short or something. Thanks for letting me know. I love green tomato chow so much!!! I am thinking I am going to go back to Sunday suppers and just do Sunday suppers and share ideas and recipes for that. I am not sure how well received the canning and stuff is lol. Thanks for the support and kind friendship Bonita
I’m going to go back and watch your last video. I’m thinking about doing some canning, but I haven’t done it before.
I love canning but not sure if it’s good for my channel lol. I have pre recorded a few though lol
I think it will do good in the long run. Canning is getting popular here in the states with the cost of food. Plus we need to try new things sometimes. That’s why I decided to throw in decorating this week. I probably should have just done the cooking segment, oh well. I still think this video will do well over time.
Jerri-Ellen, it looks delicious and I am wondering why the recipe amounts are different than the amounts that you used? I am not sure which I should follow? Thanks so much.
Thank you Salayna for watching and for making this comment. I updated just now the recipe to go with what I said in the video. I rather the way I did in the video. Both recipes use to be there one from original and the version that I do and my Mom and Mother in law did. Don’t know why it was deleted so now I have the version in the video there. I can’t thank you enough for asking because it was probably like this for the past month. Ugh.
So are these tomatoes different or just picked early. This looks so good.
Hi Sonia wave. They are just picked early or is you have some that need to be picked before the frost that didn’t get to ripen. We grew up having this with our Sunday suppers.
Is this recipe similar to Graves tomato chow? It was more on the sweet side and so delicious.
Hi Donna 👋 I never tried Graves tomato chow. This is a touch on the sweet side with the brown sugar and all. We love it. Thanks Donna for stopping by and commenting. Are you from the Maritimes ? Hope you have a wonderful day. 🤗
Hi Jerri-Ellen, that’s a lot of chopping!!!
Omgsh it is a lot of chopping lol
What book was you getting the recipe from?
Hi thanks for stopping by. This one I don’t t think was from a book. It was shown to me by my mother in-law. She shared with me how to make it. I put the recipe in the description box if you like to try it.
Please use a glove when using the mandolins, it can be purchased on Amazon.
Oh ok thank you
Question - have you ever froze it? I don’t plan to can the entire batch and I’m curious if it’s flavour/texture after freezing if anyone knows? Thanks!
Hi Sarah 👋 thank you for stopping by. Yes you can absolutely freeze however it does change the texture. They get softer and more mushier when thawed. Flavour changes a bit but it is still good if you like to freeze some. I hope this helps. Thanks again for visiting and for your question. 🤗
Wonderful! Thank you so much! I made my first large batch today and it is amazing!! So good in fact that I’ve changed my mind and will can it for pantry storage/gifts instead. Thank you for the wonderful recipe and shared knowledge! We are in southern Ontario and had a large amount of tomatoes suffer late blight this year. This will now be our yearly go to for end of season green tomatoes or those needing to be harvested early like in our case. Thanks again! 🇨🇦
@@sarahg9619 oh this is wonderful. I am so happy you like. I make and give out for gifts as well lol. My hubby and I grew up in Cape Breton Nova Scotia but we moved to southern Ontario for work years back. Small world. Thank you again for visiting and for this. I am so thrilled. Have a wonderful weekend ahead Sarah 🤗
Do not simmer
for 1.5 hours the tomatoes and onions will be mush.
Hi Thomas I was afraid of the same thing but they really weren’t my usual time I do is an hour but thought I would follow mother in-laws advise and it taste great but you don’t have to simmer that long if you do t like 🤗 thanks for visiting :)
@@CookingWithNeighbors I think because I used green cherry tomatoes it made it worse, but the onion were mush as well.
@@chester2cows oh wow. Thanks for the feedback and sharing that. It is good to know. I hope the ones next time turn out for you. Thank you Thomas. It’s always nice to hear from neighbours and chat and learn from each other.
I hate chopping onions 😢
Me too lol