To make the meat soft and tender, try simmering the chops in tomato sauce. The sauce can be made from tomato paste, fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes in their own juice. The homeland of the vegetable is Peru, and the largest tomato weighing 2.9 kg was grown in the USA. The tomato is a very popular vegetable, its worldwide harvest reaches 60 million tons per year. In the Spanish city of Buñol, the annual La Tomatina festival is held, where visitors from different countries fight with tomatoes.