Tomato Puddings

Preparation info
  • Serves

    10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

  • About

This is one of my favourite recipes for high summer, when tomatoes are most likely to be at their sweetest. I first read a description of it in Jennifer Paterson’s food column in The Spectator. It has evolved since then. Unlike summer pudding, the filling should not be cooked.

Ingredients

  • 3 lb / 1.35 kg ripe tomatoes
  • sea salt
  • freshly ground black pepper

Method

Peel the tomatoes, and cut them in half. Scoop out the seeds, juice and pulp and put in a food processor with the skins. Process the pulp and skin mixture, then rub it through a sieve to extract maximum juice and flavour. Pour half the resulting liquid on to the chopped tomato flesh. Taste the mixture, and then add just enough salt and pepper to season and a generous splash of olive oil. Mix th