Roast Tomatoes with Attitude

by Sally on September 29, 2009

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Roast Tomatoes with Attitude

To date I’ve roasted my tomatoes ‘ ballroom’ style.  Graceful, elegant, melodically flavoured with olive oil, salt, pepper and a sprinkling of sugar.

Today they come over all Latin, cha cha cha’d with chilli, garlic, lime juice and basil.

I got the idea from Frugal Family. In a little rumba riff I used red instead of green chilli which gave it an extra high kick.

So to make this hip swayingly hot tomato dish :

  • Put about 25 cherry tomatoes, 1 small red chilli and 1 clove of garlic both very finely chopped and 12 torn basil leaves in a shallow pyrex oven dish
  • Squeeze the juice of 1 lime over the tomatoes ( put the lime in the microwave for 15 seconds beforehand and you’ll be able to squeeze every last drop from it )
  • Put in the oven for 30 minutes at 150C.

Serve as a pasta sauce or with fresh crusty baguette or flat bread and just scoop out of the bowl.

Be warned – it will leave more than your toes twinkling !

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