Sweet tomato Gin Tonic

Ingredients

Tomato marmalade

  • 2 pounds tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 20 ounces sugar
  • vanilla bean

Tomato Gin Tonic

  • 1/2 cup tomato marmalade
  • 6 tablespoons gin
  • 2 cups tonic, chilled
  • 2 lemon slices
  • 2 sprigs of dill or other herb

Instructions

Tomato marmelade

  1. Score an x on the bottom of the tomatoes, then boil them for 90 seconds. Rinse in cold water briefly and remove the skins.
  2. Chop the tomatoes.
  3. Cut and scrape the vanilla bean.
  4. Add sugar, vanilla bean and pod, and chopped tomatoes to a pot and simmer on medium high for 10 min, stirring frequently.
  5. Take off the heat, add lemon juice.
  6. Let the marmalade cool, remove the vanilla pod, lastly set the marmalade in a jar in the fridge.

Tomato Gin Tonic

  1. Place 2 tbs of tomato marmalade at the bottom of each glass.
  2. Add 1/2 cup tonic per glass, and 3 tbs gin, stir briefly. Top with a lemon slice and a sprig of dill or other Scandinvian herb (pictured is Röllika).

Enjoy!