Wondering what to do with all your summer tomatoes? This Tomato Jam is perfect! Sweet and savory it’s great on bread, with cheeses, burgers and sandwiches.
I LOVE tomatoes. Seriously. Love them. I could eat them every single day. I love tomato salads, I love tomato sauce, salsa and I even love mayo and tomato sandwiches. Basically tomatoes are my favorite.
It’s because of this love of tomatoes, that I decided to plant FIVE tomato plants this year. FIVE. To say that I went a little overboard is an understatement. Now I have got more tomatoes than I know what to do with.
It’s not a bad problem to have though.
Mostly I’ve just been salting them and eating them like candy. But after staring at an overwhelmingly full bowl of perfectly ripe summer tomatoes, I figured it was time to try a new recipe. Something that would use up a bunch of my tomatoes. And while tomato sauce is always an option, I wanted something a little different.
So I set my sights on this sweet and savory Tomato Jam Recipe made with sun ripened cherry tomatoes.
You will only need a handful of ingredients to make this recipe.
DES’ PRO TIP: If you choose larger tomatoes, simply dice them first, it will help them cook down.
Tomato Jam is easy to make. You simply combine all of the ingredients together in a heavy bottom pot and cook it down until it reaches a jam consistency. See! Easy peasy!
Since you will be cooking the tomato jam for a long period of time, about 2 hours and there is a lot of sugar, you’ll want to make sure that the jam doesn’t burn. To ensure that your tomato jam doesn’t burn use a dutch oven and stir the jam often.
You will know that the jam has finished cooking when you can run your spoon through it and it doesn’t run.
Because this is a refrigerator jam and not canned, it needs to be stored in the refrigerator and eaten within 10 days.
So if you find yourself with more tomatoes than you know what to do with, or if you just really love tomatoes like me, make this SavoryTomato Jam Recipe.
You’ll find that it is great on so many things. You can use it as a spread on sandwiches or burgers. Spoon it over fresh mozzarella and top with chopped basil for a twist on caprese salad, or simply eat it on a cracker.
You really can’t go wrong. It’s sweet n’ tangy summer bliss.
They have many of the same ingredients but they do have differences in taste and texture. Tomato jam is likely to have a sharper flavor than ketchup. Tomato jam is also chunkier than ketchup.
Yes! Both terms can be used to describe it.
Jelly is made from the juice of the fruit. Jam is made from mashed fruit.
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Note: This recipe was originally posted in 2019. It was updated in 2022.
Myrissa Flowers
December 7, 2021 at 8:28 amWould love to try this next year! Could I can it?
Deseree
December 7, 2021 at 7:35 pmI’m not sure about canning because I don’t any experience with it. I know you need to have precise recipes for safety and I’m not sure this meets the requirements.
Barbara Jacobs
August 6, 2021 at 3:00 pmGreat flaver and consistency. Would it ruin it if I put it through a sieve to get rid of the peel from the cherry tomatoes? We had to pick them out.
Great on pork chops!
Deseree
August 7, 2021 at 2:27 pmBarbara, I am glad you liked it and I will definitely have to try it on pork chops! If it was a fine sieve, I don’t think it would mess with it too much.
Michelle Goth
August 24, 2019 at 12:06 pmI would LOVE to put this on a BLT. WOW!
Deseree
August 24, 2019 at 6:35 pmThat would be AMAZING.
Catalina
August 22, 2019 at 5:14 amI want to make this jam. It must be so delicious!
Michelle
August 22, 2019 at 4:33 amI love summer tomatoes too, but my cherry tomato plants didn’t do fabulous this year. My Sungolds are going crazy though! I’m thinking I could make this with those!
Deseree
August 22, 2019 at 1:05 pmMy sungolds are crazy too! I bet you could! You could pretty much use any tomato you have on hand :)
Erin | Dinners,Dishes and Dessert
August 21, 2019 at 11:54 pmThis looks absolutely delicious! Yummy!
Dorothy Reinhold
August 21, 2019 at 6:08 pmI have been looking for something tasty to make with all of these tomatoes. This sounds irresistable!
Amanda
August 21, 2019 at 4:42 pmI have so many things I wanna try this on !
Brandy O'Neill
August 21, 2019 at 3:44 pmI was looking for a new recipe for all my tomatoes! This is a must make!