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Make your own 'sun-dried' tomatoes'!
Sun-dried tomatoes are the tastiest ingredients in an authentic Italian pasta dish. When on holiday in Italy, you can sometimes see them being made: long tables full of tomatoes lying out in the sun to dry.
Drying your own tomatoes in for instance the Northern European sun is not going to work: even in the summer months, the sun is not strong enough and the air is too humid. Yet you can still enjoy 'sun-dried' tomatoes of your own. You can make them using your oven.
Preheat the oven to the very coolest temperature. The recipe for 1 jar: Cut 6 Roma tomatoes in half and lay them on a baking tray greased with olive oil, open sides facing up. Mix 10 g castor sugar, 10g sea salt and 10g black pepper. Sprinkle this mixture on the tomatoes and roast them in the oven for 3 to 4 hours. The tomatoes will have a deliciously earthy and sweet flavour, and can be stored in a jar with olive oil for a number of months.
No time to make them yourself? Why not try the sun-dried tomatoes by Grand'Italia. They were dried in Italy. Just taste that Italian sun!
Drying your own tomatoes in for instance the Northern European sun is not going to work: even in the summer months, the sun is not strong enough and the air is too humid. Yet you can still enjoy 'sun-dried' tomatoes of your own. You can make them using your oven.
Preheat the oven to the very coolest temperature. The recipe for 1 jar: Cut 6 Roma tomatoes in half and lay them on a baking tray greased with olive oil, open sides facing up. Mix 10 g castor sugar, 10g sea salt and 10g black pepper. Sprinkle this mixture on the tomatoes and roast them in the oven for 3 to 4 hours. The tomatoes will have a deliciously earthy and sweet flavour, and can be stored in a jar with olive oil for a number of months.
No time to make them yourself? Why not try the sun-dried tomatoes by Grand'Italia. They were dried in Italy. Just taste that Italian sun!
