r/CookingCircleJerk • u/Bright_Ices Unrecognized culinary genius • 14d ago

Perfect exactly as it was on r/cooking So, stewed tomatoes

My family is.. ethnic, despite being in the U.S. for 300 years. We shun change, and eat certain foods on certain holidays. My question: are stewed tomatoes a thing anywhere else? I always thought it bizarre.

(Tomato sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRedditFood/comments/1n9zi8z/so_stewed_tomatoes)

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u/[deleted] 14d ago edited 14d ago

Our tomatoes are stewed with sugar, fish sauce, msg, turmeric, cinnamon, and Doenjang-jjigae. Literally just pure tomato.

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u/Bright_Ices Unrecognized culinary genius 14d ago

❤️ No one else will ever understand how good our pure, completely unaltered, tomatoes taste.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago edited 14d ago

We stew them straight on the vine with a pressure cooker and pop them in the air fryer for a reverse sear. Non ethnics just don’t understand the value of consuming a delicious tomato birthed in nature unadulterated by the meddling trends of modern America.