Summer and tomatoes make a wondrous combination. Roasted Roma Tomatoes should be a must in your to-prepare list this season. Using simple and fresh ingredients, Roasted Roma Tomatoes are a perfect sideline for main courses like pizza, steaks and grilled chicken.
Providing rich flavor and taste, Roasted Roma Tomatoes require no effort in making and yet provide an excellent subsidiary. Here is an easy recipe for you to follow to make Roasted Roma Tomatoes. They only take a couple of minutes to prepare and then you can leave them in the oven for hours to cook slowly.
Health Benefits
Tomatoes are full of vitamins, calcium, and iron. So if you are low on these nutrients, Roma Roasted Tomatoes are an excellent form of fulfilling your requirements without compromising on the flavor and taste.
They provide you body with anti-oxidant, lycopene that protects the cells from cancerous oxidants. The best thing is that Roasted Roma Tomatoes have extremely low calories (28.9) so you don’t have to feel guilty after eating them. Moreover, the garlic used in the dish has immense health benefits.
They have potent medicinal properties beneficial for day sickness, flu, blood pressure and cardiac diseases. So overall, eating Roasted Roma Tomatoes is highly healthy dish that is full of nutrition.
Ingredients
cup of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil: 1/4
tablespoon of thyme leaves, fresh: 1
cloves of garlic (finely minced): 2
teaspoon of kosher salt: 1/4
roma tomatoes, cut into halves lengthwise: 10
How To Make Piquant Roasted Roma Tomatoes
- Set the oven to 275 degrees F to preheat.
- Taking a medium bowl, combine extra virgin olive oil, thyme, garlic, and salt.
- Add tomatoes to the mixture and mix until they are fully coated.
- On a baking sheet, place tomatoes, halves cut side up.
- Pour the remaining mixture of oil, thyme, garlic and salt on the top of the tomatoes.
- Transfer the baking sheet to the oven and let the tomatoes cook for two and a half hours. Time of baking may differ depending on the size of tomatoes.
- Remove from oven and let the tomatoes cool completely before serving.
Trivia
- Tomato was once known as the “Apple of Paradise.”
- Roma tomatoes are essentially grown for canned tomatoes and tomato paste due to their size and nature.
- Roma tomatoes are also known as Italian tomatoes or Italian plum tomatoes.
- Roma tomatoes are disease resistant and grow to an average of four to six feet.
- Roasted Roma Tomatoes are easy to cook because the tomatoes used in the dish are not juicy and they have thicker and drier flesh which makes it easier to prepare an individual dish out of it.
- Roma tomatoes were developed in 1955 using the process of hybridization. Roma tomatoes are believed to be a product of cross plantation of Pan American tomato with San Marzano.
They are believed to be brought into the United States by the Italian immigrants.