Stekovics – Sun-Dried Tomato Tartare – 125g

The Stekovics Tomato Tartare is an intensely tomato-flavored cream that can be used in many ways in the kitchen. The ripe tomatoes of various old varieties are first quartered and then slowly dried in the oven overnight, which further intensifies their already special aroma. The dried tomatoes are mixed with plenty of fresh garlic, basil, rosemary, and sea salt, as well as fresh tomatoes and freshly pressed rapeseed oil, then puréed and filled into jars. The tomato tartare is great as a pesto for pasta, tastes delicious on crispy bread or mature cheeses, as a dip for raw vegetables or savory snacks, or to spice up cream cheese or feta.

Stekovics Tomato Tartare – from the Emperor of Tomatoes

Erich Stekovics is searching for 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; on Lake Neusiedl in Austria, he plants and cultivates countless old, almost forgotten varieties of tomatoes, peppers, chilies, garlic, and cucumbers, and from them, he creates delicious preserved goods in jars, such as this tomato tartare made from dried tomatoes.

What Erich Stekovics plants has flavor. And he is particularly fond of the old varieties of tomato and chili plants. And nobody can fool him quickly when it comes to that. Among his personal favorite varieties is the "Gänseschnabel" chili, which he preserves in the finest Beerenauslese vinegar.