We’re close to roaring into tomato season and I am so happy about it! Once you start seeing ripe red tomatoes popping up at your farmers’ market, grocery stores or better yet, you’re own garden, stock up and make this sticky jam. This tomato jam has a rich, concentrated tomato flavor accented by a little brown sugar, vinegar, ginger and a few smoky spices.
It’s forgiving even if you don’t have the ripest tomatoes because you are going to cook it for a loooong time, amp up the sweetness with brown sugar and supplement it with cherry tomatoes which are almost always ripe, sweet and delicious.
The need for a recipe for tomato jam came after I first tasted one of my favorite breakfast sandwiches from an awesome and trendy café here in Des Moines, St. Kilda. I love to eat out and then come home and try to recreate my favorites. This breakfast sandwich has a ginger pork sausage patty, arugula, bacon, a fried egg, avocado, red onion and this sweet and savory tomato jam. I have a little work to do on the final recipe before I share it with you all, but this tomato jam is a winner!
It’s great on biscuits, crackers blanketed with soft, spreadable cheese (like goat!), burgers, breakfast sandwiches, and a million other things. The options are endless! Please experiment and let me know what you loved.
Oh and that breakfast sandwich I went on and on about above…it’s coming.
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