Tomatoes are not typically something you would find on BigFatBaker. Tomatoes have the reputation for being mainly a savory ingredient, but they are full of natural sugars! Here are a few other pages I found with delicious tomato sweets: Sour Salty Bitter Sweet, Tomato Tarte Tatin on bonappetit.com, and CDKitchen shares a collection of tomato cakes!
To use up my final farmer’s market tomatoes I decided to make something very unfamiliar to me…jam. I am not much of a canning person so it’s not often you find me making jam like things.
I don’t like to wait too long for food..
Thankfully this recipe was fairly quick and totally worth the wait!
If you have not seen or tasted tomato jam before I would say it’s something like ketchup’s crazy cousin. You can use it where you would normally use ketchup, but it is also tasty on so many other items. For instance, on crackers with cheese, sandwiches, wraps, or slathered on cornbread.
Tomato jam is a great basic recipe because you can customize it to your favorite flavors. The recipe calls for Serrano but you could always a jalapeño, habanero, or leave it out completely. Chopped basil would also be a great addition to this jam. You can also use what ever tomatoes you have access to. I used some lovely locally grown heirlooms as well as some locally grown garlic.
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Tomato Jam
Ingredients:
- 1 lb tomatoes, chopped
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 Serrano pepper, seeded and chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 cinnamon stick (I used 2 and found it to be a bit too much)
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 1/2 tbsp lime juice
To Make the Jam…
- Chop the tomatoes, Serrano, and garlic.
- Combine all the ingredients and simmer over medium/medium-low heat for about an hour, stir occasionally.
- Remove the cinnamon stick and check the consistency of the jam, if it is not quite cooked down to a jam like consistency continue cooking. You will know it is finished when it is thick and spreadable.
I was able to get about 1 1/2 cups of the finished jam.
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I have never thought to make jam out of tomatoes. But they are sweet, so why not!
I love tomato jam…it’s so good on sandwiches in place of the usual condiments. I like this version with the addition of the serrano pepper. I’m totally addicted to spice, so it’s right up my alley. Sounds great!
Oh yummy! What a great recipe and I love the mason jar!
That just sounds so good. Our garden is overflowing. This is a great recipe and perfect timing.
Yum. I’m a total tomato fan. This jam sound perfect and no doubt will make a great addition to eggs and golden hash browns in the morning or just about any other meal. Like how you added the serrano for spice.
Yum, great idea! I’ll have to remember that tomorrow morning for breakfast.
The jam sounds delicious! I do have a savoury jam recipe…will post sometime in the near future…I recently posted a tomato relish recipe though. Do check it out!