I want to know....can we preserve tomatoes....

they are often sun/oven dried and stored in oil.. is that what you mean ?

Steve

It can be frozen, i use garden tomatoes well uptil Christmas. Though you cannot use it for salads. I use it mainly for curries, the skin comes out easily if you wash it under warm tap water.

....you can do lots of things to make your toms go a long way. Pickles and chutneys are just a couple. Ive never heard of preserving whole red tomatoes though unless you chop/dice/puree and then freeze them. What exactly are you wanting to do? Ive done many of the pickles and chutneys from Mamtas site with both red and green tomatoes.

Cheers

Steve

I too freeze surplus whole tomatoes from the garden. Just wash and dry them and put in a bag. They remain separate and you can take out as many as you want from the bag.

Pur?ed and chopped tomatoes can also be frozen. They can also be bottled, but if you have a good size freezer, there is no need to go to all that trouble.

hi...thnx to all for your suggestions....i think the best option is to freeze whole tomatoes......i want to ask, how long we can keep them?

[how long we can keep them?]

How long are you hoping to? Certainly a year IME.

Yes, I have kept mine for nearly a year and they were fine.

I must try doing my own sun-dried tomatoes this summer.

I wonder whether there's the same precaution as there is with sun-dried figs? With those, I have to put them in the freezer for several days, to kill off fly eggs.

Phil

I like the idea of preserving tomatoes and did not know it could be donbe so easily. I will certainly freeze whole tomatoes this year.

However I would also like to ask: Can tomatoes be dried in an oven to produce something like 'sun dried tomatoes' and are there any special precautions which need to be followed? Does anybody have a recipe/instructions for drying tomatoes? Can they be flavoured like the bought ones?

Thanks in anticipation. Sativum.

sativum, I have never done it myself, because I am not sure how safe it is.