Tomatoes are round, soft fruits from garden plants, red when ripe and mild-flavored when cooked. Fresh tomatoes are cut into soups and stews; the skin slips away with gentle heat. Dried tomatoes shrink to wrinkled nuggets that rehydrate in broth, concentrating their flavor. Preserved tomatoes keep through winter, becoming sour and sticky, favored in winter cooking when fresh vegetables have vanished.
Tomatoes
Round soft garden fruit, cooked in soups and stews, preserved dried.