Helens Dried Tomatoes Recipe
Yield: 1 ServingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
-I use a Harvest Maid drier,
-and because it tastes best.,
-and set it somewhere,
-Use nice, firm ripe ones,
-between 120 and 130F. I,
-with no green in the,
-pick the tomatoes and,
-gel, unless you dont find
-handle them as little as,
-out till you cut them,
-possible, because Im
-, (grin).
-lazy,
Directions:
For cherry tomatoes, wash em, set them on a clean towel. Grab them one by
one, hack them in half and set the halves on the drier tray, cut side up.
If theres a bit of skin holding the halves together, leave it. You can
close the hinge when they dry and it looks nifty in the jar. Dry until they
are thoroughly dry. Theyll darken, but they shouldnt be brown. They
should be nearly brittle. None of this "leathery" nonsense. Leathery halves
dont keep. Bung them into old peanut butter jars, old jelly jars, any jar
that has a built-in rubbery seal in the lid. Except pickle jars. The smell
never really leaves a pickle jar lid. Poke a pinhole in the lid slap a
vacuum sealer strip on the hole, and pump the air out with the vacuum
sealer hand pump. Dont recall the brand name of the one I use, but it is
advertised in a lot of gardening magazines, costs about $30, and works like
a dream, needing no noisy electric motor. The Harvest Maids fan is noisy
enough, eh?
For Roma, or other paste tomatoes, I quarter them to speed drying. Dont
peel or seed them, either.
For fun, I slice large salad tomatoes and dry them (dry REALLY fast). I use
a V-slice mandoline (made by Boerner, I think) to slice them 1/4inch thick.
I dont peel or seed, as this is a fun snack, or something to put on pizza.
Eric always wants these. he calls them Tomato Chips. They tend to stick to
the trays, though and be hard to pop off intact. Try the screen that comes
with the machine, though that only means one tray worth of slices. Do NOT
coat the tray or the screen with Pam or oil! The tray will start to
disintegrate if contaminated by oils. Only the inside of the fruit-leather
tray liner can be coated safely.
Source from luhu.jp
one, hack them in half and set the halves on the drier tray, cut side up.
If theres a bit of skin holding the halves together, leave it. You can
close the hinge when they dry and it looks nifty in the jar. Dry until they
are thoroughly dry. Theyll darken, but they shouldnt be brown. They
should be nearly brittle. None of this "leathery" nonsense. Leathery halves
dont keep. Bung them into old peanut butter jars, old jelly jars, any jar
that has a built-in rubbery seal in the lid. Except pickle jars. The smell
never really leaves a pickle jar lid. Poke a pinhole in the lid slap a
vacuum sealer strip on the hole, and pump the air out with the vacuum
sealer hand pump. Dont recall the brand name of the one I use, but it is
advertised in a lot of gardening magazines, costs about $30, and works like
a dream, needing no noisy electric motor. The Harvest Maids fan is noisy
enough, eh?
For Roma, or other paste tomatoes, I quarter them to speed drying. Dont
peel or seed them, either.
For fun, I slice large salad tomatoes and dry them (dry REALLY fast). I use
a V-slice mandoline (made by Boerner, I think) to slice them 1/4inch thick.
I dont peel or seed, as this is a fun snack, or something to put on pizza.
Eric always wants these. he calls them Tomato Chips. They tend to stick to
the trays, though and be hard to pop off intact. Try the screen that comes
with the machine, though that only means one tray worth of slices. Do NOT
coat the tray or the screen with Pam or oil! The tray will start to
disintegrate if contaminated by oils. Only the inside of the fruit-leather
tray liner can be coated safely.
Source from luhu.jp