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5-Ingredient Tomato Confit served with bread.

5-Ingredient Grape Tomato Confit

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Learn how to use a simple French cooking method to preserve your fresh tomatoes and turn them into a succulent, out-of-this-world delicious, and versatile tomato confit. Only 5 ingredients required!
Course Appetizers, Basics and Bases, Sauces and Dressings
Cuisine European
Diet Vegetarian
Keyword 5 Ingredients or Less, Tomato, Tomato Confit
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Servings 8 servings
Author Marley Goldin

Ingredients

  • 1 pint grape tomatoes 1 pint grape tomatoes = approx. 2 cups
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon honey
  • 1 teaspoon salt
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Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 250°F. Rinse and dry your tomatoes and peel your garlic.
    1 pint grape tomatoes, 3 cloves garlic
  • To a 1.5-quart baking dish, add the olive oil, salt, and honey and use a fork to whisk. The honey and olive oil may not readily combine, but that's okay, just distribute it throughout the oil as best as you can.
    ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil, 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon salt
    Olive oil, honey, and salt mixed together in a baking dish.
  • Add the tomatoes and garlic so that they are mostly submerged in the oil mixture.
    Grape tomatoes and whole garlic cloves submerged in olive oil mixed with honey and sea salt.
  • Place on the top rack of the oven for 1.5-2 hours until the outer skin is wrinkly, and the garlic is golden brown.
    Grape tomatoes and garlic cloves slow roasted in olive oil with honey and salt.
  • You can opt to keep your tomatoes and garlic whole for serving or use a fork to mash and mix the tomatoes into the oil to give you a more jam-like texture.! Serve on bread, tossed in pasta, in a salad, on top of baked brie, on top of fish... the options are endless!

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Notes

  • You can easily substitute any variation of tomato, just make sure to slice them into bite-sized pieces. 
  • You can sub in any type of sweetener like agave or sugar.