Herby Tomato Confit

Learn about the process of cooking confit and this super savory condiment and all of it's many uses!

Herby Tomato Confit is a real treat and extremely simple to make! It’s a real ‘toss everything together in a big dish and cook’ type situation that takes about an hour and a half. This recipe leaves you with dozens of tender and plump tomatoes and a whole lot of savory tomato and herb infused olive oil that can easily be stored for weeks possibly even months.

Full recipe and breakdown is below along with a bunch of notes, recipe mods, macros, a weeknight meal hack, a write up on confit and more!

Cheers,
Joey

Table of Con(fit)tents:

• Whats the deal with Confit?
• Weeknight Meal Hack: A Quick Pasta Sauce at the Ready!
• Be Gentle and Cool to Store
• Youtube Video
• Recipe Mods and Notes
• Full Recipe
• Macros
• Comments

Whats the deal with Confit?

Whats the deal with confit? It doesn’t involve cons, and they certainly aren’t fit or paying fees?!?! (delivered in my very best Seinfeld impersonation)

Bit I digress! These days, confit sounds real fancy and is normally associated with French cuisine revolving around slowly cooked duck. However, confit was originally a much more humble term and more of a reliable preservation method than a gourmet cooking process.

To cook something confit, you are essentially slow cooking something that is submerged in a cooking fat. The fat is often derived from the ingredient itself if it’s a meat. Like cooking duck legs in duck fat. For vegetables, you’ll commonly see olive oil used instead.

Since the ingredients being cooked are submerged, you generally use a lot of oil in this process. Often several cups or even a liter! But it’s not inherently wasteful as that oil will have a ton of uses in itself (more to come later in the read). In fact, the oil is key to this preservation method and keeping your food away from oxygen which will cause your food to spoil.

The oil can also be used for other purposes as you make your way through your batch. Like a savory dipping sauce for bread, salad dressings and emulsions, past sauces, marinades, a condiment or topping for your protein of choice and more! Note: If you are going to use your left over oil for a purpose like this, I’d recommend using a decent quality olive oil to maximize flavor and reduce bitterness.

Outside of preservation, cooking confit has the added benefit of making your ingredients very tender and is also known to help draw out and concentrate flavors from the slower cooking process and fatty oils.

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