Confit tomatoes: the recipe in the air fryer

Confit tomatoes in the air fryer are a simple but tasty side dish, suitable for any recipe and ready in a few minutes.

The air fryer tomato recipe is a very quick version to prepare a great side dish. To make them, any variant of this genuine product is fine, from Piccadilly tomatoes to datterini tomatoes. To make them delicious you need a few ingredients, including salt, oil, oregano and the ever-present brown sugar. Usually, the oven is used to cook them and make them caramelized ; however, cooking requires very long times.

To overcome this problem, a very useful appliance comes to our rescue: the air fryer. With this tool, you can cook your confit cherry tomatoes in just 20 minutes . Let's see how to do it now!

Preparing the recipe for confit air fryer tomatoes

1. To begin, select some ripe and in excellent condition cherry tomatoes. Wash them under running water and dry them carefully with a clean cloth.
2. Cut each of them in half and combine them in a large bowl.
3. Season them with olive oil, pouring it slowly , then with salt and dried oregano.
4. Also sprinkle with brown sugar and mix everything, to distribute the ingredients evenly.
5. At this point, arrange the cherry tomatoes in the air fryer basket, cut side up.
6. Sprinkle some more brown sugar.
7. Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes ; if they are not caramelized enough, proceed for another 5 minutes at 200°C.
8. Once cooked, they are ready to use as a condiment.

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