Anyone know how to make SUNDRIED tomatoes?, preferably low fat, lol?!


Question: i brought some the other day from the deli, they were 97% fat free,,, and $21.99 a kilo,- [a bit much for the amount id love to eat each day],,, they were so yum,,, any idea how i could make some?,,,, thankyou


Answers: i brought some the other day from the deli, they were 97% fat free,,, and $21.99 a kilo,- [a bit much for the amount id love to eat each day],,, they were so yum,,, any idea how i could make some?,,,, thankyou

Ingredients
5 pounds (2.5 kg) Roma (oval) tomatoes
Fine sea Salt
Instructions
Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. (100 degrees C.; gas mark 1), or the lowest setting possible. Remove the oven racks.

Trim and discard the stem ends of the tomatoes. Halve each tomato lengthwise. Arrange the tomatoes, cut side up, side by side and crosswise on cake racks set on the oven racks. Do not allow the tomatoes to touch one another. Sprinkle lightly with salt.

Place in the oven and bake until the tomatoes are shriveled and feel dry, anywhere from 6 to 12 hours. Check the tomatoes from time to time: They should remain rather flexible, not at all brittle. Once dried, remove the tomatoes from the oven and allow them to thoroughly cool on cake racks. (Smaller tomatoes will dry more quickly than larger ones. Remove each tomato from the oven as it is dried.)

Transfer the tomatoes to zipper-lock bags. The tomatoes will last indefinitely.

I don't know. Buy more?

look online

I have made them.

I use a dehydrator to do them although if you live in the southwest US, you can use the sun to dry them. I usually use plum tomatoes and halve them and put them on the rack (I can stack 10 racks with about 20 tomatoes per rack). It takes almost 24 hours with my dehydrator.

You can also dry them on a rack in a very low oven if you don't have a dehydrator but they will dry faster because most ovens can't go as low as a dehydrator can.

The results in the dehydrator are far superior to the results you will get in an oven.

i would say cut tomatoes stick them in the sun let them dry....

or you could get a dehydrator and put them in there.... and dry them.... that way you could do it even when it rains.... :D

do a search on food dehydrators and you should find tons of them for sale... in the states you can get a good personal one for 30 to 60 dollars......

then you could make tons of dried tomatoes..... and other items....

call up my mother-in-law and ask for a few jars :P

google..:""sundried tomatoes"" and voila different ways to do it! I tried it out the tropical way ( out in the hot sun)and they had fungus growing on the fourth day!!lol

I dont know Rock mum but man..they are tastly i will be watching this Q :) yummmy.





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