Thursday, August 22, 2024

Tomatoes...Dessert Style

 

Yes, you can have tomatoes for dessert. Cherry tomatoes, prepared essentially as you do with candied apples. Natalie Keng, who wrote the new cookbook Egg Rolls and Sweet Tea, stopped by Tonia's Kitchen to discuss her Candied Tomato Bites. Natalie told Tonia this is street food in its essence. We all know that cherry tomatoes are already sweet to begin with, and now Natalie told Tonia, you can take that sweet essence and bring it up a notch, using both corn syrup and molasses. Both of those ingredients really work with the cherry tomato to make it a wonderful, wholesome dessert bite!