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Don't Overlook These Tomatoes At The Grocery Store - Bon Appetite
When it comes to canned tomatoes, we generally preach whole peeled or bust. Unlike crushed or diced tomatoes, our favorite brands of whole peeled tomatoes don’t include additional ingredients besides salt (there’s no calcium chloride, which helps tomato chunks stay firm, or “added purée,” which imparts a weird thickness).
But there’s one type of canned tomato we rarely talk about, and those are fire-roasted. The silence ends now: As it turns out, they have their time and place to shine.
Fire-roasted tomatoes are exactly what they sound like: the tomatoes are charred over a flame before they're diced and canned (sometimes, they're also enhanced with onion and garlic powder). Often, you can actually see the blackened flecks on the tomatoes. Contact with the flame brings out the tomatoes’ sweetness and, most notably, imparts a distinct smokiness. Essentially, it’s a shortcut to more flavor.
When it comes to canned tomatoes, we generally preach whole peeled or bust. Unlike crushed or diced tomatoes, our favorite brands of whole peeled tomatoes don’t include additional ingredients besides salt (there’s no calcium chloride, which helps tomato chunks stay firm, or “added purée,” which imparts a weird thickness).
But there’s one type of canned tomato we rarely talk about, and those are fire-roasted. The silence ends now: As it turns out, they have their time and place to shine.
Fire-roasted tomatoes are exactly what they sound like: the tomatoes are charred over a flame before they're diced and canned (sometimes, they're also enhanced with onion and garlic powder). Often, you can actually see the blackened flecks on the tomatoes. Contact with the flame brings out the tomatoes’ sweetness and, most notably, imparts a distinct smokiness. Essentially, it’s a shortcut to more flavor.