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Cherry tomatoes
« on: September 18, 2010, 15:56 »
Have got oodles of tiny red cherry tomatoes and need to do something with them.  I'm blowed if I'm going to skin them all though  :ohmy:

In my experience cooked tomato skins are not nice.  I have a mouli thing from Lakeland which will puree them but I'm not over keen on simple passata; prefer more chunks.

Any suggestions for what I could do with them?

NB. I can roast some but don't know what to do with them afterwards and I still have the skins dilemma.
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2010, 15:59 »
Had a bowlful going past their best so I just whizzed em up roughly with a stick blender and used them as a sauce base - no  fiddling or sieving or skinning.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2010, 16:02 »
That sounds like my type of cooking!  At what point in the cooking did you whizz them?

(I'm having a clueless day today!!)

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2010, 16:16 »
Or you could roast them without stirring, then pinch the skins off when thay cool. Just done a load for the freezer, the only ones that mushed were the very ripe ones. :)

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2010, 17:17 »
I just made a lasgagne for late lunch ::) and I used, as the tomato component, a mixture of very small, ripe tomatoes and home-made oven concentrate. It was great, we didn't notice tomato skins as there were so many other veg. in there too.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2010, 18:03 »
Hadn't thought about squeezing the skins off after roasting, that's definitely an idea too.  I could then just combine the remainder of the toms with pre-cooked onion / herbs etc.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2010, 20:57 »
Weve just made onion and tomatoe, just chopped and fried them both, very nice as a dip or in a sauce, and dead simple, even i managed it :D :lol:
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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2010, 21:19 »
Chopped tomatoes, cucumber and onions - equal quantities - into some white vinegar but not too much.  Nice on Sunday lunch with Yorkshire puddings my Mum used to say.  I suppose you could be a few herbs in or use a flavoured vinegar but keep is simple I think.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2010, 22:14 »
Used some cherry toms for a chutney - cooked in the slow cooker.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2010, 22:21 »
I used mine to make the Cevenol recipe for roast tomato soup.  Delish, and way faster with my whizzy new passata machine, but it did take 1kg tomatoes to produce 2 bowls of soup.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2010, 14:04 »
That sounds like my type of cooking!  At what point in the cooking did you whizz them?

(I'm having a clueless day today!!)

I whizzed em raw - skins et al.  It was a day later I made the sauce. Have done this technical cookery before then just put the resulting mush into old milk cartons and freeze. Can use for soup or sauce! Master Chef it  certainly isn't but better than having them go to waste.

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2010, 20:17 »
Well, I roasted them and then added them to garlic, onion and herbs which had been separately cooked.  Cooked through a bit, then whizzed up a bit.

Divided into three individual lots of pasta sauce so job's a good 'un.  Thanks all.  :D

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2010, 20:26 »
Next time when roasting your toms try roasting your onions and garlic as well, just quarter the onions and spray them with oil. They go nicely gold and sweet flavoured.
Then blitz the lot........sorted :)

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Re: Cherry tomatoes
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2010, 21:14 »
I did think of that, but the tomatoes were already in the oven, there wasn't room on the trays, and I hadn't detached the toms from the stalks / vines before roasting.

Never mind, there's always next year!



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