Oven Roasted Tomatoes

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Oven roasted tomatoes are a slow cooked tomato that intensifies the natural flavors in the tomatoes. These easy to make tomatoes can be made with any type of tomato you have on hand – roma, cherry, or your favorite tomato and a few simple ingredients.

Our garden tomatoes are ripening and they are so delicious. If you’ve never had a fresh picked, garden fresh tomato, you don’t know what you’re missing. We only have one small problem with our homegrown tomatoes – they all seem to ripen all at the same time.

We certainly eat as many fresh tomatoes as we can. We make Pesto Grilled Cheese sandwiches with fresh slices of tomatoes, add them to lettuce salads and make tomato salads. We also can tomatoes to store in our pantry. In addition to all these ways, I also love to make these oven roasted tomatoes and add them to sauces, pastas and top on grilled bread with goat cheese. These tomatoes are also perfect for making an oven roasted tomato sauce.

I just have to warn you, if you make these oven roasted tomatoes – your house is going to smell unbelievable! I’m not kidding. The roasting tomatoes along with roasting garlic and herbs just makes your whole house smell crazy good!

If you don’t have access to homegrown tomatoes, store bought tomatoes work too.

Why oven roast tomatoes?

Tomatoes are made up of approximately 95% water! Roasting the tomatoes slowly removes water from the tomatoes. Once a lot of the water is removed, all you have left is pure tomato flavor. These tomatoes are not fully dried like a sun dried tomato, these are still soft and pliable. You can easily add to any dish or I’ve even been known to eat them right off the baking sheet.

How to store

Oven roasted tomatoes can be stored in the refrigerator for up to one week and in the freezer for 30 days in the freezer. To freeze, store in a single layer in a freezer safe bag and freeze on a flat surface until fully frozen.

Variations

• Use sprigs of fresh thyme, rosemary or oregano
• Add a whole shallot or a head of garlic
• Drizzle with a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar before roasting
• Use roma tomatoes or cherry tomatoes

Oven roasted cherry tomatoes

We often have an abundance of cherry tomatoes in our garden and these work perfectly for oven roasting too. Cherry tomatoes have the same amazing flavor and take less time to cook than the roma tomatoes.

How to use oven roasted cherry tomatoes

My favorite way to use roasted cherry tomatoes is using on toasted bread with an herb cream cheese or goat cheese.

To make an herb cream cheese, simply take softened cream cheese and add freshly chopped parsley or thyme. For an extra flavor boost, squeeze in a clove or two of the roasted garlic.

Other delicious recipes

• Grilled Cherry Tomatoes
• Grilled Baby Potatoes
• Slow Cooked Tomato Soup
• Baked Chicken Penne Pasta – this recipe uses oven roasted tomatoes

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