These roasted tomatoes are 30 seconds to make and go with almost anything.
Take lots of whole small tomatoes, and put them in a roasting pan (small if you can, so everything snugs up close). Scatter over 2tbsps oil, 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1tsp ground cumin, 1tsp sugar, a little salt and pepper. Add lots of unpeeled garlic cloves if you like garlic. Maybe chili or some harissa if you like it. Thyme if you want it a bit herby. Put the pan into a fairly hot oven (Gas Mark 6, 200 degrees C, 400 F). Leave for 40-45 minutes, till it’s kind of blistered and blackened around the edges. Squish a bit. (Take out the garlic peel, the cloves will be squishy.)
You can: - Serve on toast. With cheese if you like. - Stir into pasta - Put on a baked potato - Eat with houmous, and alongside grilled meat if you like that - Eat with cooked green things like spinach or raw green things like watercress or rocket (arugula) - Serve with plain yoghurt, possibly with green things mixed in. - Eat with rice and any of the options above.
Seriously, it’s very adaptable, and super tasty. And it’s ideal for home-from-work, no faffing food.
Favourite quick recipe
These roasted tomatoes are 30 seconds to make and go with almost anything.
Take lots of whole small tomatoes, and put them in a roasting pan (small if you can, so everything snugs up close). Scatter over 2tbsps oil, 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1tsp ground cumin, 1tsp sugar, a little salt and pepper. Add lots of unpeeled garlic cloves if you like garlic. Maybe chili or some harissa if you like it. Thyme if you want it a bit herby. Put the pan into a fairly hot oven (Gas Mark 6, 200 degrees C, 400 F). Leave for 40-45 minutes, till it’s kind of blistered and blackened around the edges. Squish a bit. (Take out the garlic peel, the cloves will be squishy.)
You can:
- Serve on toast. With cheese if you like.
- Stir into pasta
- Put on a baked potato
- Eat with houmous, and alongside grilled meat if you like that
- Eat with cooked green things like spinach or raw green things like watercress or rocket (arugula)
- Serve with plain yoghurt, possibly with green things mixed in.
- Eat with rice and any of the options above.
Seriously, it’s very adaptable, and super tasty. And it’s ideal for home-from-work, no faffing food.