Honeyed tomatoes

Tomates au miel

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    in a mixture of starters
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The North African Kitchen

By Fiona Dunlop

Published 2008

  • About

This confit is like a sweet tomato jam, very dense and sugary. It can be stored in a sealed jar in the refrigerator and spooned out occasionally. Beware of eating too much as it is very rich. Like all such little starters, it is eaten with four or five others and dipped into with a fork or flatbread.

Ingredients

  • 2 kg (4 lb 4 oz) tomatoes
  • 175

Method

  1. Make a cross at the base of each tomato and plunge them into boiling water for 30 seconds. Transfer to cold water. Drain and remove the loosened skins. Halve, remove the juice and seeds, dice, then place in a wide pan with a drizzle of the vegetable oil. Stir continuously over a low heat until the mixture starts to simmer, then add the rest of the oil, the cinnamon, suga