Simple, easy and healthy homemade roasted cherry tomatoes are great side dish. Use it on bruschetta, mash and add it to pasta or serve alongside roasted roasted meat. You’ll fall in love with its simplicity.
You Must Try This Oven Roasted Cherry Tomato Recipe
Roasting tomatoes in oven is one of the best things to do when you have tomatoes available fresh and abundant! Cherry tomatoes are great when roasted in oven. It gets mushed away releasing all its flavors, making it full of flavors.
This juicy, clean flavors in the tomatoes makes it get with roasted meat as side dish, you can scoop it over bruschetta and serve it as starter.
Plump fresh cherry tomatoes are great in it own. I could gobble up these cute tomatoes as it is. But if you can enhance its flavors and serve it in so many other ways, then why not try it! You should definitely give these roasted cherry tomatoes recipe a try.
What Do You Need To Make Roasted Tomatoes?
This is what you need:
Note-I missed fresh thyme in the ingredients shoot photo , but please note I have used it in the recipe. You should definitely use it, it enhances the flavors.
Tomatoes: freshest and ripe tomatoes is what you need. I have used cherry tomatoes on the vein and roasted directly. Feel free to remove tomatoes from vein before roasting.
You can also use ripe tomatoes tomatoes or heirloom tomatoes. Note you might have to adjust the roasting time for Roma or heirloom tomatoes.
Fresh Herbs: I used fresh thyme. I missed placing it in ingredients shoot. Don’t skip it. You can also use fresh basil leaves.
Garlic: tomatoes love garlic. Use it generously, accordingly. Do not skip garlic. You would love the flavor if garlic with tomato.
Olive oil: olive oil does two things, helps roast tomatoes without getting stuck to pan and enhance the flavors.
Seasoning: sea salt and freshly milled pepper as per taste.
How To Roast Cherry Tomatoes?
Rinse tomatoes well.
You can remove the veins and arrange tomatoes on baking tray before roasting.
Or leave tomatoes in it vein and roast it. You will remove veins later once tomatoes are roasted.
Cover baking tray with aluminium foil.
Arrange cherry tomatoes in one layer. Spread garlic cloves over tomatoes.
Spray/drizzle olive oil all over. Season with salt and pepper.
Spread fresh thyme all over the tomatoes.
Roast cherry tomatoes in pre-heated oven at 400 degree Fahrenheit for 20-25 minutes.
Remove tray from oven, let it sit for few minutes.
Carefully remove the veins off (note after roasting veins will be crispy and can break off into powder.)
To make it easy to remove tomatoes, use a fork and carefully pull off all squishy tomatoes and then remove veins discard it.
This roasted tomatoes can be served as side dish.
Can be used in bruschetta. Over pasta. Mash it into sauce and use it as pasta sauce. Serve alongside grilled meat.
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Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ripe cherry tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt adjust to taste
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper adjust to taste
- 5-10 sprigs fresh thyme
Instructions
- Rinse tomatoes well.
- You can remove the veins and arrange tomatoes on baking tray before roasting.
- Or leave tomatoes in it vein and roast it. You will remove veins later once tomatoes are roasted.
- Cover baking tray with aluminium foil.
- Arrange cherry tomatoes in one layer. Spread garlic cloves over tomatoes.
- Spray/drizzle olive oil all over. Season with salt and pepper.
- Spread fresh thyme all over the tomatoes.
- Roast cherry tomatoes in pre-heated oven at 400 degree Fahrenheit for 20-25 minutes.
- Remove tray from oven, let it sit for few minutes.
- Carefully remove the veins off (note after roasting veins will be crispy and can break off into powder.)
- To make it easy to remove tomatoes, use a fork and carefully pull off all squishy tomatoes and then remove veins discard it.
- This roasted tomatoes can be served as side dish.
- Can be used in bruschetta. Over pasta. Mash it into sauce and use it as pasta sauce. Serve alongside grilled meat.
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