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Preserved tomatoes

Name: Preserved tomatoes
Prep time: 56 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 10 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 12^th 2026

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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: 645 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

1 hour

Resting

10 min.

Cooking

4 hours

All in all

5 hours 10 min.

Preparation 1 hour

Resting 10 min.

Cooking 4 hours

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Step by step recipe

Step 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.

Step 2 - ⌛ 10 min.

Drain and dry on a cloth or some papier absorbant.

Step 3 - ⌛ 5 min.

Peel 1 garlic clove.

Step 4 - ⌛ 5 min.

Cut garlic into thin strips.

Step 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.

Step 6 - ⌛ 5 min.

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

Step 7 - ⌛ 5 min.

Brush with olive oil.

Step 8 - ⌛ 1 min.

Then add pepper.

Step 9

Arrange all the tomatoes in this way.

Step 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.

Step 11

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

Step 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.

Step 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: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	1 g RDI=1 %	3 g RDI=1 %	36 g RDI=49 %	337 kcal RDI=17 %	1,411 kJ RDI=17 %
Per piece	1 g RDI=2 %	5 g RDI=2 %	57 g RDI=79 %	539 kcal RDI=27 %	2,259 kJ RDI=27 %
Whole recipe	5 g RDI=7 %	19 g RDI=7 %	229 g RDI=314 %	2,158 kcal RDI=108 %	9,034 kJ RDI=108 %

Whole recipe

How much will it cost?

For 4 Preserved tomatoes

3.40 €

Per Preserved tomatoes

0.85 €

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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