Stekovics Oven Tomatoes – semi-dried tomatoes

The Stekovics oven tomatoes are semi-dried tomatoes, marinated in rapeseed oil with garlic, sea salt, and herbs like rosemary. Stekovics oven tomatoes are truly something special, even if their preparation is entirely simple. The fully ripe tomatoes of various old varieties are first quartered by hand and then slowly dried in the oven at low temperatures with a little salt and herbs. The special thing about them is the concentrated tomato aroma that develops as a result.

The Stekovics oven tomatoes are filled into jars by hand with plenty of fresh garlic, basil, rosemary, and sea salt, and then topped up with rapeseed oil. The semi-dried tomatoes are great with fried potatoes, pasta, or pizza. They taste delicious on crispy bread or with aged cheeses, on a snack platter or to enhance cream cheese or feta, and of course with mozzarella and burrata.

Erich Stekovics – the Emperor of Tomatoes

Erich Stekovics is in search of lost flavors. In his "paradise," he cultivates over 4000 tomato varieties and now well over 200 chili varieties. Erich Stekovics is the Emperor of Tomatoes; by Lake Neusiedl in Austria, he plants and cultivates countless old, almost forgotten varieties of tomatoes (Paradeiser), peppers, chilies, garlic, and cucumbers, and makes delicious preserves from them, marinated in wine vinegar in jars.

What Erich Stekovics plants has flavor. And he is particularly fond of the old varieties of tomato and chili plants. And no one can fool him easily when it comes to that. Among his personal favorite varieties is the chili variety "Gänseschnabel," which he preserves in the finest Beerenauslese vinegar.