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Preserved tomatoes

Softer than dried tomatoes, they can be used as a kind of chutney in pasta dishes for instance, or simply served to accompany an aperitif.

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 4 Preserved tomatoes, you will need:

1 4 tomatoes
2 a little sage
3 1 garlic clove
4 3 sprigs thyme
5 1 sprig rosemary
6 1 bayleaf
7 250 ml olive oil
8 salt
9 pepper
Total weight: 661 grams

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Time required

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
56 min.	10 min.	4 hours	5 hours 6 min.

Keeping:

Several months in their jar.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 20 min.

Peel 4 tomatoes, cut into quarters and discard seeds. You should have "petals" of tomatoes.

Salt on both sides, then leave the juice to drain out for about one hour.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Drain and dry on a cloth or some papier absorbant.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Peel 1 garlic clove.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Cut garlic into thin strips.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

On a non-stick baking sheet, put a sage leaf dipped in olive oil, add a little thyme and a small strip of garlic on top.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Place a piece of tomato on top, then another small strip of garlic.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Brush with olive oil.

Stage 8 - 1 min.

Then add pepper.

Stage 9

Arrange all the tomatoes in this way.

Stage 10 - 4 hours

Then put in the

conventional oven: 4 hours at 80°C or 176°F
bread oven: 12 hours after oven has cooled to 60°C or 140°F.

Stage 11

At the end of this time, take out the baking sheet.

Stage 12 - 5 min.

Prepare a jar with the sprig of rosemary, a sage leaf, a sprig of thyme and a bayleaf, blanched as for the flavoured olive oil recipe.

Stage 13 - 5 min.

Add the preserved tomatoes (discard cooking herbs), and cover with a little olive oil.

Remarks

The tomatoes will keep unrefrigerated for several weeks. For a little more flavour, add a small chilli to the jar.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 Preserved tomatoes : 6.80 €
Per Preserved tomatoes : 1.70 €

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