Homemade Tomato Powder
Enhance the flavor to your soups, meatloaf and spaghetti sauce with a bit of homemade tomato powder.
Servings: 1 cup
Ingredients
- tomato skins we used half bushel for 1 cup of powder
Instructions
- Make sure you wash and blanch your tomatoes to get the skins.
- When peeling your tomatoes, place the discarded skins in a separate bowl.
- Place the tomato skins in a colander to separate excess water.
- Place the tomato skins on the dehydrator tray on a single thin layer.
- Place the trays of tomato skins into the dehydrator and set the temperature to 155F/68C.
- The tomato skins will need to process for 8-12 hours, until they are crisp and dry.
- While the tomato skins process, work on the rest of your tomatoes (juice, stewed etc)
- If you run the tomatoes through the food processor, you can dehydrate the discarded portion of the tomato as noted above.
- Once the tomatoes are dry and crisp, you can remove from the dehydrator and place into a large bow.
- Place the dry tomato skins into a food processor and chop into pieces. This will look like flakes.
- Process all the tomatoes, it make take a few rounds in the food processor to complete.
- Place the tomato flakes into the coffee grinder and grind into a powder.
- Place the powder into a jar with a lid.