Oven Dried Tomatoes

Pretty much the only thing my garden was good at producing this year was tomatoes. I didn't want to waste so much and at the same time try something easy. Just having a baby makes me a whole lot less ambitious. I figured this was my answer. And who doesn't love sun dried tomatoes? I tried two different ways, leaving the seeds in with a higher oven temperature and squeezing the seeds out with a lower oven temperature. They actually took about the same amount of time and it the only difference seems to be the seed-in high temp version came out a little darker in color. I was hoping they would dry out faster with the higher temperature but they didn't really. 

Oven Dried Tomatoes

Ingredients 

Couple pounds of Cherry tomatoes 

Salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 200 degrees. 

Halve the tomatoes and lay cut side up in one layer on a cookie sheet with edges aka jelly roll pan.

Sprinkle with salt. 

Bake for about 8 hrs. Checking every few hours removing any tomatoes from the pan that have dried and taken on a leathery feel. 

When all have dried place in freezer ziplock bag and freeze. 

 

Or if you don't want seeds, 

Squeeze out seeds from cut tomatoes. Lay cut side up

Bake at 150 from 6-8 hrs. Checking every couple hours.