Sun-dried tomatoes?

[daydreambeliever]

I am in the process of trying to be raw and so I'm researching recipes, especially alternatives to some of my favorite dishes.

I absolutely love cooked tomato dishes like spaghetti, pizza, chili, things that require ketchup, etc.

I loath the flavor of raw tomatoes. One drop of raw tomato on something completely ruins that area of the dish.

So I'm wondering what sun-dried tomatoes taste like? Do they taste like raw tomatoes since they are raw or do they taste more like cooked tomatoes? Some of the raw dishes that I am seeing look really good if only raw tomatoes tasted good to me.

[margoss]

I loooovvve SDT. I make a small amt of raw-ketchup with it and put it in foods..I soak them sometimes.

[SevenKindsOfCookie]

Sun dried tomatoes has a unique flavor, very strong and salty, so I'd say neither one. But it's more of a cooked flavor. In fact, it's often used together with fresh tomatoes in a sauce to make it taste more like a cooked one.

[Mad Mex]

sundriedtomatoes are my favourite snack for inbetween.

I use them soaked and blended as a dressing, as salsa, as filling and and.

But the easiest way to use them, SDT with an almond in the mouth....

Mine are not salty, because the ones I get are homemade and this person does not use salt for drying.

Saludos,

Marcel :cool:

[RawKnitster]

I like to made my own "Sun-Dried" tomatoes in the dehydrator. Tastes a lot fresher than store bought SD.

No matter what kind of tomatoes you use to make sauces (SD, fresh, or a combo), if you have a dehydrator to warm it up and dry out some of the water, it will taste like a cooked tomato sauce. I coat zuchinni or yellow squash noodles with marinara, spread it out in a casserole dish or plate no more than an inch thick, and dehydrate it at 110 degrees for a couple hours. Hard to believe how much it tastes like cooked spaghetti. :)