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Preserved tomatoes

Name: Preserved tomatoes
Prep time: 1 h 6 min
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 5 h 6 min
Yield: 4 Preserved tomatoes
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 tomatoes; a little Sage; 1 garlic clove; 3 sprigs thyme; 1 sprig rosemary; 1 bayleaf; 250 ml olive oil; Salt; Pepper

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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Duration

5 hours 6 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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: 665 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

60 min.

Resting

10 min.

Cooking

4 hours

All in all

5 hours 6 min.

Preparation 60 min.

Resting 10 min.

Cooking 4 hours

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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.

Keeping: Several months in their jar.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	0 g	2 g RDI=1 %	37 g RDI=52 %	354 kcal RDI=18 %	1,484 kJ RDI=18 %
Per piece	1 g RDI=2 %	4 g RDI=2 %	62 g RDI=86 %	585 kcal RDI=29 %	2,453 kJ RDI=29 %
Whole recipe	4 g RDI=7 %	18 g RDI=7 %	250 g RDI=342 %	2,343 kcal RDI=117 %	9,812 kJ RDI=117 %

Whole recipe

How much will it cost?

For 4 Preserved tomatoes

3.50 €

Per Preserved tomatoes

0.90 €

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

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