Sundried tomatoes are one of my all time favorite foods. I’ve put them in all sorts of dishes and I will often be caught eating them strait from the jar. But they’re so expensive…even at costco a jar costs upwards of $9.
Anyway as a few of you know I’ve been searching for a new hobby. I knew I love food and cooking and the other day I had some salmon jerky…and ka-ching! I want to try making dehydrated foods.
I opted to buy a new machine since I got paid and it’s 2016 so why not treat myself right? I spent $64 at Canadian Tire for a Salton Food Dehydrator.
Firstly I knew I wanted to experiment since this is a new hobby and I want to have fun. Therefore I tried the tomatoes three different ways: 1) I cut them lengthwise in half 2) I cut them in half, not lengthwise and 3) I quartered them. With this I’ve created my own (very basic) recipe. Here it is:
Ingredients:
Tomatoes: I used cherry tomatoes because I love them
Optional: salt, pepper, basil, olive oil
Instructions:
Cut tomatoes, put in a bowl, toss in a small amount of olive oil, a pinch or two of salt, pepper, basil as desired. Next lay them in your dehydrator with the skin of the tomato down so the wet seedy part is facing upwards.
Very simple, I know.
They turned out wonderfully. However I did learn that the best cut of tomato is horizontally…quarters were much too small. Good luck!
Have you ever dehydrated food? Looking forward to hearing from you all.
nannygrannie 
I want one of these..I’ll definitely need some how too’s
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I can gladly give you some tips on how to use it 🙂
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We got a dehydrator for Christmas and I can’t wait to use it this year. Not that I have any ideas yet of what to do with it, but I think I’ll try your tomatoes when ours are ready
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Great idea! Dehydrated bananas are also delicious so you could try that too. Most fruit works really well 🙂 happy experimenting!
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They look really good!
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