Oven-Dried Tomatoes

Try it and you will be hooked

So here's the thing, since I was a kid, tomatoes and bananas would make me go eww. Slowly, that changed, I still don't like bananas, won't have them, but tomatoes, I kinda like their taste when they are cooked. I absolutely can't eat raw tomatoes even now. So why is a anti-tomato person like me writing a recipe about - tomatoes and nothing else? :p
That's because I absolutely love sun-dried tomatoes. The minute I see sun-dried tomatoes on the menu, I veer towards ordering that dish :) But they come at a steep price so I don't indulge in them as often as I would like to, so when I found a recipe for oven-dried tomatoes, I couldn't resist. The proof's in the pudding when I say that they were polished off in the next 20 minutes of them coming out of the oven, all by me :p  Some bits were almost wafer-like, as I had cut them up thinly, yumm. Hubby will have to wait for batch no 2 to sample the sour, salty, tangy red slices of irresistible tomatoes :) 


Alternative to Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Source: Purple Foodie
Ingredients: (serves 1 to 2)

• 3 firm tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon each of oregano, pepper and herb seasoning (optional)
• Salt to taste
• 5 pods of garlic finely chopped

Method:

• Pre-heat your oven to 100 C
• Slice the tomatoes finely, lay them on a kitchen towel to soak off the liquid
• Sprinkle salt on them and let them sit for about 20 minutes
• Add the pepper, oregano, herb seasoning, garlic, olive oil and toss in a bowl
• Spread the slices over your baking tray that has been lined with butter/parchment paper, top off with the garlic from the bowl
• Let it bake for about 1 1/2 hours or so till the slices wrinkle and dry up
• Peel them off and enjoy.

Tomato wafers anyone?