Simple Oven Roasted Tomatoes

Our bonus mid-week Sunday Scratchups recipe is in honor of these tomatoes keep coming and what do I do with them? Well, here’s another option: Simple Oven Roasted Tomatoes are so easy, and slow roasting them in a low oven concentrates their sweetness until they taste almost like candy.

Junior High Guy goes nuts for these and insisted on bringing some in his lunch today, while I just like them in small doses (chopped up in salad or pasta, for instance) because there is so. much. flavor. going on!

Simple Oven Roasted Tomatoes

Ingredients

15-20 Roma tomatoes
Olive oil
Kosher salt
Fresh herbs of choice (I used basil and thyme from the garden)

Directions

Wash tomatoes, cut off and discard stem ends, then slice in half lengthwise. Place on rimmed cookie sheet, cut side up. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle lightly with Kosher salt. Wash and chop herbs, then sprinkle on tomatoes.

Roast in 200 degree oven for 6-8 hours, depending on how large your tomatoes are and how much juiciness you want left in them. Turn pan every hour or two so that tomatoes roast evenly. Here, I took mine out at six hours when they were darkened up and wrinkled but still had a little juiciness left in them, but that’s a personal preference.

So now what do you do with them?

You can eat your Oven Roasted Tomatoes plain as a side or a snack.

You can use them on bruschetta, or add a little fresh mozzarella and make a Caprese Bruschetta like I did here. You can chop them and use them in salad or pasta as you would use sun dried tomatoes. You can use them on pizza.

You can add them to an antipasto plate or use them in appetizers. Use your Simple Oven Roasted Tomatoes anywhere you’d like a concentrated and powerful punch of summer tomato flavor! Store tightly covered in your refrigerator — they’d probably also freeze well, although I honestly haven’t tried. Maybe I shall. 🙂

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Simple Oven Roasted Tomatoes are so easy, and slow roasting them in a low oven concentrates their sweetness until they taste almost like candy.

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Total Time 6 hours hours

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 15-20 Roma tomatoes
• Olive oil
• Kosher salt
• Fresh herbs of choice (I used basil and thyme from the garden)

Instructions

• Wash tomatoes, cut off and discard stem ends, then slice in half lengthwise.
• Place on rimmed cookie sheet, cut side up.
• Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle lightly with Kosher salt.
• Wash and chop herbs, then sprinkle on tomatoes.
• Roast in 200 degree oven for 6-8 hours, depending on how large your tomatoes are and how much juiciness you want left in them.
• Turn pan every hour or two so that tomatoes roast evenly.

Notes

Use your Simple Oven Roasted Tomatoes anywhere you’d like a concentrated and powerful punch of summer tomato flavor! Store tightly covered in your refrigerator — they’d probably also freeze well, although I honestly haven’t tried. Maybe I shall. ?

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