Oven Roasted Tomatoes With Fresh Basil Or Garlic
Oven Roasted Tomatoes With Fresh Basil
Mamta Gupta
These simple tomatoes are delicious as a side dish with grilled meat or fish, on a slice of crusty bread. You can insert a clove of garlic in each tomato too, for extra flavour. If you do not have an oven, you can cook them under a grill or even in a frying pan, on low-medium heat. You can roast tomatoes this way with a garlic clove inserted, instead of basil. Other vegetables can also be roasted this way, see last two pictures.
Edited June 2023
Ingredients
2 medium tomatoes per person
3-4 fresh basil (Tulsi) leaves
3-4 tbsp. olive oil of good quality (Extra Virgin)
Coarse salt Freshly ground black pepper
Optional
1 garlic clove per tomato
A sprinkle some sugar gives better better caramelisation
A few drops of good quality of balsamic vinegar on each tomato
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200?C (15?C less in a fan oven) or 400?F or Gas mark 6.
Wash tomatoes and towel dry.
Make a ?cross? slit halfway into each tomato. Insert a garlic clove, if used, into the slit of each tomato. Now insert a few basil leaves into each tomato.
Place tomatoes on an oiled, oven dish.
Drizzle with olive oil generously.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper (and sugar, if used).
Cook in a hot oven until the skins shrivel, flesh softens and they look a little browned. This will take around 40 minutes.
Serve hot or cold.
