Italian Seasoning to add into the oil while storingoptional
Instructions
I tried them in two ways.
First Method:
Preheat the oven to the lowest setting in your oven. My oven has the lowest temp at 110 C. Firstly arranged a parchment paper on the baking tin. I just chopped the Vine tomatoes into wedges, arranged them in line .Sprinkle some salt and pepper . Place a few pieces of finely chopped garlic pieces and then generously drizzle some olive oil on them. Bake for 3-3.5 hours , until the desired level of dryness is achieved. Cool them completely and transfer in to clean jar. Fill the jar with olive oil until the dried tomatoes are completely submerged.
Keep the jar refrigerated. Tomatoes will last approximately for 2 - 2.5 weeks.
Second Method:
Chop the Vine tomatoes into wedges and de seed them. Sprinkle some salt and set it aside for about 30 minutes. Since a good amount of juice from the tomato comes off, the time taken to dry will be quicker than the previous method. Now arrange the tomato wedges on the parchment paper in a baking tin. Sprinkle some pepper and drizzle generously good amount of olive oil. Arrange some pieces of garlic on the tomato wedges. Bake them for about 2- 3 hours until the desired level of dryness is achieved. Cool them completely and transfer in to clean jar. Fill the jar with olive oil until the dried tomatoes are completely submerged.
Keep the jar refrigerated. Tomatoes will last approximately for 2 - 2.5 weeks.
Notes
Seasoning added to your tomatoes and oil is entirely personal choice. Some people enjoy Basil. Italian seasonings and oregano. Some people do not enjoy garlic in their food, in that case kindly omit them .