To freeze your cherry tomatoes, you want to make sure that you purchase the fruit when it's in season, which is when they taste their best.
Then, wash the fruit, dry them, and spread them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Leave the cherry tomatoes in the freezer for a minimum of two hours.
The cherry tomatoes can be frozen as they are or, if you prefer, they can be cut in half, or quartered, and frozen skin side down on the baking sheet.
Once they're frozen, the fruit can be stored in an air-tight container or freezer bag and remain in the freezer for a maximum of 12 months.
When you're ready to cook, you can add your frozen cherry tomatoes to warm dishes — with no need to defrost them. The heat will turn both fresh and frozen tomatoes soft, so the temperature isn't an issue.
To create a dish with frozen cherry tomatoes, you can roast them straight from the freezer, no need to defrost them.
The roasted cherry tomatoes can be used in various ways, on most stove-top and baked dishes where one would use canned or even diced fresh tomatoes.
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