How to make sun dried tomatoes so you can preserve your tomato crop this year.

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This year I had an amazing crop of tomatoes. AMAZING. I was so pleased. But I’m the only one who really eats tomatoes so I decided to make sun dried tomatoes which are awesome for cooking with. In case you’ve never made them (this was my first time), here are some simple instructions for dehydrating tomatoes.

Supplies for Sun Dried Tomatoes

Food dehydrator
Tomatoes
Salt
Basil

How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes in a Dehydrator

Wash and dry your tomatoes.Cut your tomatoes in thin slices. Sprinkled with salt and basil “to taste.”

Place on trays in your dehydrator and set the temperature for 140 degrees Fahrenheit. I turned mine after four hours. This should take 8+ hours.

Mine ended up going longer than 8 hours but I just made sure to keep checking on them until I saw they were done- you’ll have more or less time depending on how juicy your tomato was. Roma tomatoes are supposed to work best.

These will keep in air tight jars for a while- as long as they are FULLY dehydrated. Moisture = no bueno.

Sun Dried Tomatoes

Learn how to make some easy sun dried tomatoes in your dehydrator.

Ingredients

Tomatoes
Salt
Basil

Instructions

Wash and dry your tomatoes.
Cut your tomatoes in thin slices.
Sprinkled with salt and dried basil.
Place on trays in your dehydrator and set the temperature for 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
Turn after four hours. This should take 8+ hours.

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Jamie Tomkins

Friday 2nd of September 2016

Great tips! I love making them this way and having them for future recipes. :) Thank you for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersParty

Tana mason

Wednesday 31st of August 2016

I love sun dried tomatoes!! Come on over and share this at our blog hop Wed-Sun we would love to have you!! https://www.floydfamilyhomestead.com/

Katy SkipTheBag

We just put about 6 tomato plants in the ground! This post will come in very handy. Posts like this are perfect for Waste Less Wednesday blog hop! http://www.skipthebag.com/2016/08/waste-less-wednesday-blog-hop-3.html Thanks!

Michelle Spilman

Danielle-I love sun dried tomatoes. I want a dehydrator like yours! It looks so nice!Also- your kiddos are darling!Thanks Michelle