Method #1: Dehydrating Tomato Puree
Makes 8 Cups of Paste
Ingredients
10 Roma Tomatoes
Thinly slice the tomatoes and lay out on dehydrator trays.
Dehydrate at 145
degrees F for about 8 hours, checking back every hour after 6 hours (due to
water content, dehydrating times vary). You may also add your favorite herbs into the dehydrator to flavor your paste.
Once completely dehydrated, run the tomatoes (with the herbs if you added any) through a food processor. The
resulting powder is a tomato base substitute you can use in place of paste. If
you would like to create a complete paste consistency, you can rehydrate the
powder with oil until it creates a paste.
One cup of powder is the equivalent of 12 oz of paste.
We recommend using this in our Pasta Sauce recipe.
