Oven-dried tomatoes in olive oil

Name: Oven-dried tomatoes in olive oil
Yield: Makes one 500 ml jar
Ingredients: 100 ml extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for topping up the jar; 2 bay leaves; 500 g plum tomatoes

Preparation info

Makes
one
500 ml jar

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Vegetables

By Peter Gordon

Published 2007

About

These give you a similar result to sun-blushed tomatoes, but they’re much less sweet and they’re a good way of using an excess of tomatoes. Try serving them tossed through pasta, in salads, with cheese, and even chopped and added to a simple risotto.

Ingredients

500 g plum tomatoes
2 bay leaves
100 ml extra-virgi

Side dish
Preserve
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 120°C/gas ½ and line a roasting dish with baking parchment.

Cut the tomatoes across in half and scoop out and discard the seeds. Cut each half across again in half. Place the bay leaves in the dish and sit the tomatoes in it. Drizzle with the