Alastair Little

Pomodori Secchi

Oven-dried Tomatoes

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Alastair Little's Italian Kitchen
Alastair Little's Italian Kitchen

By Alastair Little

Published 1996

  • About

Dissatisfaction with the quality of sun-dried tomatoes available led to experimentation with home-drying. The results are splendid. Such a simple, easy but slightly lengthy process has an almost alchemical effect on the tomatoes.

Ingredients

  • 20 ripe plum tomatoes
  • salt and pepper
  • sugar

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2. Lightly moisten a baking sheet.

Halve the tomatoes and scoop out the seeds. Arrange the tomato halves, flat side up, in a single layer on the baking sheet. Sprinkle carefully with coarse salt, coarse pepper and a very small amount of sugar