Roasted Tomatoes with Herbs
There were some lovely fresh tomatoes in the store the other day so I grabbed a couple figuring I’d use them up one way or another. We grilled a marinated flank steak for dinner and I decided some roasted tomatoes would make a great side. Actually, these tomatoes are how we start our homemade tomato sauce that we always use on pizza. I’ve never eaten them just roasted like this before, but I will definitely be doing it again. They look fancy, but are so easy!
Fresh tomatoes
Ingredients
- Fresh tomatoes
- Olive oil for drizzling
- A few fresh basil leaves
- A few sprigs of fresh thyme
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
Just a few fresh herbs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F).
- Slice the tomatoes in half and then make a few slits into the cut side.
- Stuff the slits with basil leaves and sprinkle on a few small sprigs of thyme.
- Place the tomatoes on a parchment lined baking tray.
Ready for the oven
- Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Perfect with grilled steak
Roasted Tomatoes with Herbs
Ingredients
- Fresh tomatoes
- Olive oil for drizzling
- A few fresh basil leaves
- A few sprigs of fresh thyme
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F).
- Slice the tomatoes in half and then make a few slits into the cut side.
- Stuff the slits with basil leaves and sprinkle on a few small sprigs of thyme.
- Place the tomatoes on a parchment lined baking tray.
- Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
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Sounds like a perfect summer side dish to me!
Nothing beats fresh summer tomatoes 🙂 Thanks for stopping by Nicole!
Hi Lisa – I’ve got tomatoes in the oven now for your soup. You mentioned above that this is how you start your sauce. Do you have a recipe of sorts for that? The garden is beginning to produce and I need to get cooking! And have you canned any of your sauce? Thank you!!
Hi Marcie,
No, I’ve never trying canning tomatoes or sauce before (but I’ve got homemade pickles going for the first time 🙂 ). The sauce is really simple and the recipe (of sorts) is here: http://swisspaleo.ch/the-holy-grail-a-good-paleo-pizza/ It’s basically just roast tomatoes but we throw in several cloves of garlic to roast with the tomatoes and then whiz it all together in a food processor at the end. It’s extra delicious if you also roast some bell pepper and onions to add to it (we don’t usually whiz those; we just add them in chunks). Do you have a dehydrator? You could make “sun dried” tomatoes to last through the winter as well. Enjoy 🙂