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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.

359 K 4.5/5 (28 reviews)

5 hours 6 min. difficulté

Easy

3.50 €

4 Preserved tomatoes

9 Ingredients

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: 665 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 60 min.

Resting: 10 min.

Cooking: 4 hours

All in all: 5 hours 6 min.

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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 (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	4 RDI=2 %	20 RDI=2 %	250 RDI=40 %	2,340 RDI=120 %	9,810 RDI: 120 %
Per 100 g	0	2 RDI=0 %	40 RDI=6 %	350 RDI=20 %	1,480 RDI: 20 %
Per piece	1 RDI=0 %	4 RDI=0 %	60 RDI=9 %	590 RDI=30 %	2,450 RDI: 30 %

How much will it cost?

For 4 Preserved tomatoes : 3.50 €
Per Preserved tomatoes : 0.90 €

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