These Easy Sun-Dried Cherry Tomatoes are intensely fragrant, delicately sweet and will make you wonder why you ever bought shop bought sun-dried tomatoes in the first place.
Learn HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN OWN SUN-DRIED TOMATOES AT HOME in your own comfort, they can be used and enjoyed in any recipes any time of the year.
This recipe couldn't have coincided better with the 50 year anniversary of the first Moon Landing. I loved astronomy so much growing up and will never forget the day I went to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida back in 2008. I learned about the food that astronauts ate and how it was all dehydrated by various processes to stop it from going off. As a souvenir from the gift shop, we brought back some space food - freeze-dried strawberry ice cream was one of them if I remember correctly!
In perfect sync with this anniversary, we have made dehydrated Cherry Tomatoes. Now we all love sundried tomatoes at home, we add them to cheese and salad sandwiches with homemade chutneys, in pesto, sundried tomato rosemary focaccia and salads just to name a few. If you are blessed with glorious sunshine, then sun-drying the tomatoes seems the best option, but, like us, if you are not, you have to fall back on other (equally effective) methods. In the past, we used to oven-dry our tomatoes but this time, we used a food dehydrator.
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Easy Sun Dried Cherry Tomatoes
ingredients:
- *700g cherry tomatoes
- 200ml extra virgin olive oil or olive oil
- 1 tablespoon mixed dried herbs
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- Sea salt flakes
- Cosori original food dehydrator
- Knife
- bowl
- spoon
- jar
instructions:
How to cook Easy Sun Dried Cherry Tomatoes
- First, wash and pat dry tomatoes.
- Cut into two halves, you don't need to peel the skin of tomatoes in this recipe.
- Put in a big bowl, add salt, little oil, and some dried herbs.
- Mix gently.
- Read carefully manual instructions of your dehydrator first.
- Layout tomato halves on a supplied trays, leaving some room in between them.
- Cover it with the provided lid and turn the machine on.
- Set the temperature on 55C and time set for 10-11 hours.
- Check the tomatoes after 6-7 hours.
- Once dried, remove them and let it cool completely.
- Store it in the sterile jar, add garlic, herbs and salt if necessary.
- Now pour olive oil and make sure all the tomatoes are submerged in oil.
- Cover the lid tightly and leave in the refrigerator for a week or use in the required recipe.
NOTES:
Fresh herbs can be added too such as rosemary, basil, thyme or oregano.
We have used fresh basil for a photography purpose.
You may want to vacuum seal if don't want to preserve in oil.
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Melanie Varey says
A great piece of kit! Sun dried tomatoes are so versatile so well worth making. A great idea- thank you!