Cook 36 - Smoked Tomatoes
9th August, 2015 08:12 PM by BBQ Phil
Recently, I saw an episode of BBQ with Franklin (PBS), where a woman was making a BBQ sauce and she said she was using smoked tomatoes. Me being an absolutely tomato lover, I was intrigued by this and did some research on it and so, today, here we are.

I cut the tomatoes in half and de-seeded them. I then sprinkled some of my bbq rub that I'd made up for the lamb I was doing next and I left them out on plate to dry a little. The salt from the rub, also helped to draw out some of the moisture.

I'm almost out of my Samba wood chips, so I thought I'd use up the rest of those and fired off the pit at about 12:30pm. 20 minutes later and the tomatoes went on. At 2pm, I took them off.

I brought some crackers and cheese outside and sampled the smoked tomatoes. My god ... they were amazing and the smoke tasted identical to the wood chips I used. Nice and strong flavour. I put what was left aside and thought I'd make a BBQ sauce with the rest. Best laid plans and all that, I ended up snacking on them that night. I will be doing this again.

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