The following recipe and excerpt for confit cherry tomatoes & labneh on toast are from “In For Dinner” by Rosie Kellett. It’s available for purchase on Amazon.
This is my favorite way to preserve summer cherry tomatoes. It’s such a treat to be able to enjoy a sugary-sweet cherry tomato, even when they are no longer in season, on top of thick, creamy labneh and perfectly toasted bread. It’s a vibe any time of day, but as a slow Sunday breakfast this toast really shines. Once confited, these tomatoes will keep for up to 1 month in the fridge. Once you have made the labneh and confited the tomatoes, you can whip up this meal in seconds, so it’s a great one to prep for the week and come to when you are short of time. It’s not just break- fast: the tomatoes are good on everything from savory pancakes to eggs, pasta to couscous and polenta—use them far and wide! When you have eaten all the tomatoes you may well have some confit oil left over—hold on to this, as it is brilliant to add to salad dressings or use as a cooking oil, adding extra flavor to everything it touches.
Confit Cherry Tomatoes & Labneh on Toast
Ingredients
Instructions
- Put the cherry tomatoes, olive oil, and a pinch of sea salt into a medium saucepan over the lowest heat possible and leave to confit for at least 1 hour, and anywhere up to 3 hours.
- To make the labneh, mix the yogurt with the lemon zest and 1/2 tsp sea salt.
- Place a sieve over a bowl and line the sieve with a large, clean piece of cheesecloth or a fresh kitchen towel. Pour the yogurt mix into the lined sieve and tuck the mixture in with the excess cloth.
- Leave to drain like this in the fridge overnight. In the morning the bowl will have collected all the milky excess liquid from the yogurt (which you can discard), and you will have a thick labneh in the lined sieve.
- When you are ready to serve, toast the bread and rub it lightly with the garlic clove. Top with the labneh and then the tomatoes, drizzling over some extra confit oil and sprinkling with salt and pepper.
In For Dinner Copyright © 2025 by Rosie Kellett. Photographs copyright © 2025 by Benedikte Klüver. Illustrations copyright © 2025 by Alice Kell. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
