Sun-dried tomatoes JUST

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 6 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   You need to dry ripe, medium-sized, fleshy tomatoes with dense pulp. Wash the tomatoes, dry them, cut them into 4 parts, remove damaged areas, stems and seeds.

2. STEP 2

   

   Cover the sheet with parchment, lay out the tomatoes, sprinkle with salt and sugar. I don’t add spices because I don’t see the point; after 4 hours there won’t be anything good left of them. I spray it with a little oil. Place in the oven for 3-4 hours, depending on the size of our “cream,” at the minimum temperature that the oven allows. Mine is about 90 degrees.

3. STEP 3

   

   After 4 hours I get this result. Let it cool a little and dry.

4. STEP 4

   

   I pour a little olive oil into the bottom of a sterile jar and lay out the tomatoes, sprinkling with spices. Those who wish can add crushed garlic for extra piquancy. Other ingredients you can add to dried tomatoes are: dried onions, capers, anchovies, capsicums, etc.

5. STEP 5

   

   I fill it with olive oil. I press the tomatoes to let the air out. The oil should completely cover the tomatoes.

6. STEP 6

   

   It turned out to be 4 jars (250 ml). I let it cool and put it in the refrigerator (you don’t have to put it away) for a couple of weeks so that the spices give their aroma to the tomatoes and oil. The oil that remains in the jar can be added to salad dressings, pasta sauces, etc.

Comments on the recipe

Ira

14.08.2023

4.9

Galina, thanks for the great recipe. The tomatoes must be the most delicious. Is this a wrap for the winter?

Galina

14.08.2023

4.7

I would like to make some clarifications and additions to the recipe: be sure to use the convection mode, if not, then use a wooden spoon, placing it between the door and the oven so that the moisture evaporates faster. And at the end we get 4 jars not of 200 g, but of 250.

Panda

14.08.2023

4.6

Galina, thanks for the great recipe. I’ve never dried tomatoes, only peppers. And now I'm interested. Why JAST? Where and how do you use them?