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What's Cooking: Green Tomato Marmalade with Chef Tom Bivins

What's Cooking -- September 9, 2011

Chef Tom Bivins from the New England Culinary Institute joins us this morning to show us an easy recipe you can make with those under-ripe tomatoes.

Green Tomato Marmalade

Yield: 2 cups

Ingredients:

2 lbs. green tomatoes, chopped

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup lemon juice

½ cinnamon stick

2 allspice berries

Salt to taste

Place cinnamon stick and allspice berries in sachet.  Combine the tomatoes, sugar and lemon juice.  Refrigerate overnight. 

Next day, heat to simmer in non-reactive pan.  Add the sachet bag.  Simmer over low heat, stirring often until reduced to about 2 cups.  Remove from heat, discard sachet and season with salt.  Cool and refrigerate or can in hot jars and process in hot water bath for 10 minutes.

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