Tomato Jam And Olive Tapenade

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 2 cups peeled seeded and diced plum tomatoes
• 1 large garlic clove, peeled and chopped
• 1 cup carrot juice (recommended ( trader joe's)
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon zest
• 1 tablespoon ground fennel (optional)
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• 1 cup pitted french oil-cured black olive
• 1 garlic clove
• 1/2 cup freshly chopped fresh parsley leaves
• 1/2 cup pitted green olives
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 baguette
• 1 fresh garlic clove

Recipe

• 1 to make the jam: combine all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until well combined. transfer the mixture to a saucepan and over low-medium heat, reduce by.
• 2 1/3, stirring occasionally. cool to room temperature before serving.
• 3 to make the tapenade: combine all the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until coarsely mixed. set aside.
• 4 to make the crostini: preheat oven to 350 degrees f. thinly slice the baguette crosswise, and line up on a cookie sheet. toast in the oven until golden brown, about 7 to 10 minutes. remove from the oven. slice the garlic clove in half and rub each toast with the cut side of the garlic. serve with tomato jam and olive tapenade.
• 5 note:i'm going to give a brief description with how to blanch tomatoes (for those who don't know how). bring a medium to large.
• 6 saucepan of water to a boil. add the plum.
• 7 tomatoes. boil for a couple of minutes (not so long that they become soft and mushy).while the water is boiling, have a large bowl.
• 8 filled with ice. inside the larger bowl,.
• 9 have a smaller bowl that is filled with ice cold water (to make it this cold, refrigerate.
• 10 the smaller bowl filled with water). remove tomatoes gently (so as not to bruise or mash them) with a soup ladle. put them into cold water and allow them to cool down. when cool enough to handle, skins should slip off easily when you peel them.