Cold Tomato in Dried Plum Sauce 冰鎮話梅車裡茄

 

* ideal summer appertizer!

Ingredients:

Cherry Tomatoes or Detterino Tomatoes

Dried Plums 

Rock Sugar

Lemon Slices (optional)

Method:

1. Clean and rinse tomatoes.

2. Gently cut a cross on the skin of tomatoes.

3. Boil a pot of water. Once boiled, put in all tomatoes and cook for 30-60 seconds. Then remove all to pot of ice water. Gently remove all skins.

4. In another pot, put 1 bowl of dried plums, 1 tbsp of rock sugar and 2 glasses of water, bring to a boil and adjust tasting yourself. It's very personal how sweet or sour you want this base sauce for the tomatoes. Cooked for 10 mins. Then cool it down and sieve out the plums.

5. Put all de-skin tomatoes in this plum soup in an air tight box and put to fridge overnight. You can also add 1-2 slices of lemon in this plum soup too.

6. Upon serving, just place tomatoes on a plate without the plum soup.

Enjoy!