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Semi dried tomatoes

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in Fruit & veg
Despite my best efforts, I have a glut of supermarket squish vittoria tomatoes.
All the recipes for sdt say cut them in half. Is this absolutely necessary? I ask because, as you'd expect, they are quite small.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    I would reckon so or they will not dry, but just rot... Sun will not be here for much longer so hurry... Good luck.
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Recipe here -
    https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/semi-dried-tomatoes

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Slice in half, sprinkle with basil and maybe a bit of salt then dry out in the oven at 100C fan.  That way they'll dehydrate but not burn.  When happy they've shrunk enough transfer to a sterilised jar then cover with olive oil.  Tap to remove air bubbles then cover tightly and stand in a pan of boiling water for 5 minutes.

    Lovely on lightly toasted ciabatta.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thanks @Obelixx no big deal slicing them ,I suppose. Just being lazy. I've got no basil but shed loads of oregano/ marjoram .one or the other maybe both.Never can tell.
    Saw that recipe @Pete.8 . Thanks.
    @diggersjo I'm doing them in the oven
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    Cheat, not the same thing :D
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @diggersjo cheating in gardening and cooking and getting  away with it is an essential  skill 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Far too many flies round here (cattle and horses for neighbours) so definitely oven dried.

    They need to be half dried, not dessicated @B3 and oregano would be fine.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Good @Obelixx. They're  already in the oven and I  don't fancy scraping the oregano off 🙄
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Obelixx will it make any difference  if I  use the cooking olive oil rather that the good stuff?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Any oil will be fine...it creates a seal from the air and that's all 😉 my granny used to make tonnes of tomato paste she always finished her jars with some olive or sunflower oil. 
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