Yes !!! This really has been the summer of the tomato, I'll stop banging on about them soon as they're nearly all gone ( one more harvest this week should do it ). In the meantime there is a never ending supply of them and you can realistically only eat so many.
A thought crossed my mind - can I make tomato puree- I use it a lot in recipes and I really hate to waste food, why not ??
Ingredients
Tomatoes
I didn't even weigh my tomatoes as it doesn't matter as it's the only ingredient, I gave mine a thorough wash and chopped them up into my slow cooker.
I didn't de skin or de seed as I knew that I was going to sieve after cooking.
So far so easy - I cooked these in the slow cooker for 6 hours on a low setting, I then put them through the blender and sieved until smooth. Back into a saucepan and cooked to reduce.
Now this I would change next time, it took a while to reduce and towards the end it got pretty spattery, floopin tomato paste everywhere, while the end product was amazing, next time I'd pop the mixture back into the slow cooker and let that reduce it all down - much cheaper too!!
This tastes absolutely delicious - is it worth the faff - I think so, especially if you have a glut of tomatoes. Honestly you can buy tomato puree in a tube for a quid but homemade is great right !