Description
Summertime smells of many things, among them fresh, juicy tomatoes. Bursting with flavors, you can preserve them by drying them in your oven and storing them in jars full of olive oil.
Ingredients
Scale
- This recipe yields one 250 ml jar:
- 15–20 cocktail tomatoes
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp chopped thyme
- 1 tbsp chopped rosemary
- 3 tbsp + 0.8 cups (200 ml) olive oil
- 1 tbsp sugar
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Wash tomatoes, cut them in half.
- Line baking sheet with aluminium foil or parchment paper. Place tomatoes on lined sheet, cut- side up. Pour 3 tbsp of olive oil over tomatoes, sprinkle them with sugar, salt, thyme and rosemary.
- Heat oven to 210 Farenheit (100 Celsius) and dry tomatoes for 4-6 hours. Time and temperature may vary based on your oven, the size of the tomatoes and of course your preference.
- Sterilize jars-wash them and put in oven preheated to 122 Farenheit (50 Celsius). Leave them for 10 minutes, then take them out and let cool.
- Pour 200 ml olive oil into sterilized jars. Add some more rosemary, thyme and garlic cloves. Add dried tomatoes. Keep them in fridge.