Tomato Leather

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An interesting thing I tried over the weekend. Take a can of crushed tomatoes, add salt and pepper as necessary, then pour it all on a baking sheet and bake it in the oven at 170 degrees for 12 hours or until dry and dark. You end up with a snack that tastes like sun-dried tomatoes and handles like a fruit rollup. Cook it longer or get a cookie cutter and cut circles out of the sheet and bake at a slightly higher temperature and you’ve got tomato chips.

Unlike potato chips, these have zero fat, only as much salt as you put in (or that came in the can), and are darned tasty. For extra fun, add in exceptionally finely chopped basil before drying.

Tomato Leather

Delicious, healthy, and dirt cheap to make. Especially good if you like the taste of sun-dried tomatoes.


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13 responses to “Tomato Leather”

  1. Fred H Schlegel Avatar

    Cool. Sounds like a great idea for this weekends baking. I wonder if this would work well in a solar oven over the course of a day….

  2. Fred H Schlegel Avatar

    Cool. Sounds like a great idea for this weekends baking. I wonder if this would work well in a solar oven over the course of a day….

  3. Fred H Schlegel Avatar

    Cool. Sounds like a great idea for this weekends baking. I wonder if this would work well in a solar oven over the course of a day….

  4. whitneyhoffman Avatar
    whitneyhoffman

    Add garlic, and you have dried tomato sauce; balsamic vinegar and basil, and then cheese, and you have portable caprese salad

  5. whitneyhoffman Avatar
    whitneyhoffman

    Add garlic, and you have dried tomato sauce; balsamic vinegar and basil, and then cheese, and you have portable caprese salad

  6. whitneyhoffman Avatar
    whitneyhoffman

    Add garlic, and you have dried tomato sauce; balsamic vinegar and basil, and then cheese, and you have portable caprese salad

  7. John C Kim Avatar

    Wait – do these chips have a leathery feel or are they crispy?

  8. Christopher S. Penn Avatar

    They can be either. Depends how long you dry them.

  9. Christopher S. Penn Avatar

    They can be either. Depends how long you dry them.

  10. John C Kim Avatar

    Wait – do these chips have a leathery feel or are they crispy?

  11. Christopher S. Penn Avatar

    They can be either. Depends how long you dry them.

  12. John C Kim Avatar

    Wait – do these chips have a leathery feel or are they crispy?

  13. Christopher S. Penn Avatar

    They can be either. Depends how long you dry them.

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