17 Ways To Use Tomatoes

Totally inundated with tomatoes from your garden or a friend’s? There’s nothing like home-grown tomatoes, but it can take some ingenuity in figuring out how to use them before they start to spoil.Here are some ideas to get you started, plus a website with 45 recipes.

Slice them in salads

Put them in pasta dishes or zucchini noodles

Make salsa

Make gazpacho

Make chutney

Make tomato sauce

Make tomato soup

Use them on burgers and sandwiches

Put them on pizza or foccacia

Wash, cut up, and freeze them for your winter chili, etc.

Put them in guacamole

Roast or grill them

Make ratatouille

Check out FOOD 52’s recipes. I haven’t tried any of them yet, but several of them look great.

Other tips…

If not quite ripe, store them in a brown paper bag to accelerate ripening

Leave them unrefrigerated whenever possible. The flavor is better.

If you want to peel them, a serrated vegetable peeler works well.

Also check out…

Ways to use cucumbers .

Ways to use peaches.

Ways to use mint.