Morning,
I had a pretty large tomato harvest the other day and I needed a way to use them up so I've decided to dry them. Full disclosure, they're not really sun dried as I'm using a food dehydrator.
To start, we need tomatoes of course. I had a good harvest of mostly cherry tomatoes of several varieties.
Gave them a quick wash, quartered or halved the larger ones as needed and loaded up on the dehydrator.
I left a lot of them whole, they will turn into something similar to raisins.
I managed to fill up the 6 levels my dehydrator has, sprinkled some salt and herbs on the tomatoes; some people sprinkle some olive oil on them as well but I haven't this time. I set it on 50 degrees to start with and let it do its job.
I left it on during the night, dropped the temperature to 40 C for this and by the morning I had the first ones ready.
Picked some herbs, a couple of chillies and got some garlic peeled for some extra flavour.
Added some peppercorns and filled the jars with olive oil.
Aaah, and these are some of those raisin like tomatoes, they're delicious.
Put the lids on and these bad boys are ready to be stored in the fridge.
That's about it, I'm waiting for the rest of the toms to be dried and I'll jar those up as well. I love sundried tomatoes so I'm definitely going to enjoy these.
Cheers for having a look!