Oven Roasted Tomatoes

It’s fourth dimension for roughly other episode of our ‘garden-to-table’ feature.  Today we’ll oven roast Roma-Grape tomatoes.  This diversity of tomatoes is novel to me this summer, too new to our garden.  They are larger than your typical grape tomato plant too smaller than a Roma.  The season however, is unforgettable. 

I chop-chop went out to the garden too picked all the ripe tomatoes too brought them inward for a bath.  I had to locomote quick because it’s too hence incredibly hot this week!  We had a rut index of 121 today.  Yuck – I’m gear upwardly for Fall.

When roasting tomatoes locomote certain to while them inward a means that the cutting side volition remain upwardly during cooking.

Preheat the oven to 225 degrees too spread the tomatoes on a baking sheet.  Drizzle amongst a picayune olive crude oil (I used a Mr. Misto spritzer), sprinkle amongst a dash of sugar, a skillful pinch of ocean salt, freshly terra firma pepper, julienned fresh basil leaves too almost four minced cloves of garlic. 

Bake for four hours too let to cool.  Refrigerate until gear upwardly to use.  It’s real difficult non to consume them all fresh from the oven.

So straightaway you lot may be wondering what to create amongst all those roasted tomatoes?  I’m too hence glad you lot asked!  How almost a squeamish panini made amongst white cheddar cheese, leftover grilled chicken, fresh basil leaves on left over garlic staff of life from a dinner party?  Works for me!

The tomatoes bring too hence much season too are terrific warmed on a panini.

If you lot silent bring to a greater extent than roasted tomatoes you lot tin add together them to a squeamish weekend breakfast frittata.

Or 1 of my favorites, Bow Tie Pasta amongst Tomatoes, Asparagus too Boursin Cheese.

Maybe add together them to a deep dish vege pizza?

Or you lot could add together them to this incredible, addictive, focaccia amongst caramelized onions, rosemary too tomatoes. 

There’s a few ideas for this weekend!  But I realize if your conditions is every bit hot every bit ours you lot may locomote happy to drib a few tomatoes inward a squeamish cool, crispy salad. 

Oven Roasted Tomatoes

(adapted from a recipe posted on Tasty Kitchen by barefootbell)

Whole cherry, grape or Roma Grape tomatoes (I used almost four cups)
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive crude oil (more or less every bit needed to lightly comprehend tomatoes)
1 teaspoon saccharide
1 teaspoon ocean salt
freshly terra firma pepper
8 fresh basil leaves, julienned

Preheat oven to 225 degrees.  Wash tomatoes too while them inward one-half too hence the cutting side volition confront during baking.  Place them on a baking canvass too spritz or drizzle amongst olive oil.  Sprinkle amongst sugar, salt, pepper, minced garlic too fresh basil.  Bake for four hours or until shriveled only non dry.  Store leftovers inward the refrigerator.  Add them to sandwiches, soups, pizza, pasta or eggs. 

Thanks too hence much for stopping by!  Have a terrific weekend too cheque dorsum on Mon for Pie No. 30!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com