In article I read that kids eat sun dried tomatoes as a snack.
I’m other places I read that sun dried tomatoes need to be rehydrated before being eaten. I assume this applies to both those completely dry and those in oil.
So can they actually be eaten completely dry without rehydrating or what was the article referring to when it said kids eat them as a snack - did they mean those in oil?
Thanks.
I eat them (dried, no oil) as a snack. I'm fairly obsolete as being a child goes.
Depending what I'm making I may also rehydrate them to an extent (balsamic vinegar rather than water can be nice for that; again, depending what I'm making.)
I'm not overly fond of traditional cooked tomato sauce or paste, but ground-up dried tomatoes and balsamic vinegar makes a very nice tapenade if you can get past the traditional definition of tapenade.
Rather than canning loads of sauce or paste when tomatoes are ripening in hordes, I run my dehydrator like mad, so I have a fairly good quantity of dried on hand at most times.
Beef Jerky comes to mind. Like tomatoes, it too starts out full of moisture before being dried. It is then eaten in it's dried state. There are also a plethora of other dried fruits... from raisins, to various types of "fruit leather". Which is delicious and kind of like jerky made from fruit. Some dried goods are dryer than others though. Dried mushrooms for example. Which aren't very pleasant to eat due to their texture. There's dried banana chips come to think of it.
So the question of whether kids can eat sun-dried tomatoes as snacks, comes down to how tough they are to actually eat.
As for what type of sun-dried tomatoes the article was referring to, no one can really answer that without you providing a link to the article.
