Recipes: Cooking dried tomatoes at home

Collection of canned pickles, sauces and tomato - perfect preparation for the coming winter, but, taking advantage of cheap seasonal vegetables, we can not ignore another way of harvesting the fruit to cold - to dried. In this article we will learn how to jerk tomatoes in your own kitchen.

The only drawback of this recipe is the cooking time, but otherwise to prepare dried tomatoes - a trifling matter. All we need - the tomatoes themselves, preferably medium-sized varieties such as cream and cherry.

After washing the fruit, cut them in half and remove the core with a watery seeds using a teaspoon.

Peeled tomato halves place on a parchment-covered baking sheet, season with salt, sprinkle with oil and send a preheated to the lowest possible temperature (usually from 60 to 80 ° C) oven for 6-8 hours.

The cooking time can vary within a broad framework, since it is directly affected by the particular the power of your oven, as well as the size of themselves and tomato pulp thickness, in a word, it is better to see once at a photo. Prepared tomato halves remain soft, but acquire plasticity and chewed harder.

Cool sun-dried tomatoes and place on a clean jar. By Dried fruits can send cloves of garlic, chilli, rosemary and thyme sprigs.

The contents of the cans Pour olive oil and tighten the lid. Thus it is possible to harvest tomatoes in all volumes, and the jar will stand quietly until the spring.