Roasted tomatoes with Italian flavours

Recipes / Fish

Serve these stuffed tomatoes with barbecued fish, lamb or steak and a salad of bitter greens for a wonderfully simple summer meal.

Recipe «Roasted tomatoes with Italian flavours» presented in category Recipes / Fish, to prepare this dish you will need no more minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 8 large truss tomatoes, 1/2 red capsicum, chargrilled, peeled, thinly sliced, 8 anchovies in extra virgin olive oil, drained, halved, 2 tbsp salted capers, rinsed, drained, 12 kalamata olives, halved, pitted , 50g mini Roma tomatoes or yellow teardrop tomatoes, quartered, 50g small grape tomatoes, 1 large clove garlic, halved, thinly sliced , 2 tbsp torn basil leaves, 150g day-old rustic-style bread, 60g provolone or pecorino, finely chopped, Extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle.

Ingredients:

  • 8 large truss tomatoes 
  • 1/2 red capsicum, chargrilled, peeled, thinly sliced 
  • 8 anchovies in extra virgin olive oil, drained, halved 
  • 2 tbsp salted capers, rinsed, drained 
  • 12 kalamata olives, halved, pitted 
  • 50g mini Roma tomatoes or yellow teardrop tomatoes, quartered 
  • 50g small grape tomatoes 
  • 1 large clove garlic, halved, thinly sliced 
  • 2 tbsp torn basil leaves 
  • 150g day-old rustic-style bread 
  • 60g provolone or pecorino, finely chopped 
  • Extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle 

Instructions

  1. Snip tomatoes to separate, keeping 2cm of stalk attached, then cut in half. Scoop out seeds and centre membrane and discard. Scatter hollows with 1 teaspoon sea salt, place cut-side down over a plate and leave for 20 minutes (salting helps extract extra moisture).
  2. Preheat oven to 200°C. Place tomato halves, cut-side up, in a large roasting pan. Fill with capsicum, anchovies, capers, olives, tomatoes, garlic and basil leaves. Pull bread from crust in small pieces and tuck among other ingredients. Scatter with provolone. Drizzle with olive oil and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Bake, loosely covered with foil, for 15 minutes, then uncover and bake for a further 15 minutes or until tomatoes are tender and bread golden. Serve warm or at room temperature, drizzled with a little more olive oil.