Garlic roasted tomatoes with mozzarella cheese
35 min
This delicious starter is sure to impress friends and family at your next gathering. Plum tomatoes are baked with olive oil then stuffed with buffalo mozzarella cheese and basil leaves and returned to the oven. A rustic, simple dish bursting with flavour and Italian through and through in its simplicity. Enjoy with a handful of fresh rocket leaves.
DanaT
4 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 12 plum tomatoes, halved and deseeded
- olive oil, to taste
- 6 cloves garlic, crushed
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 250g buffalo mozzarella cheese, chopped
- chopped fresh basil, to taste
- 6 handfuls rocket leaves
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:25min ›
Ready in:35min
- Preheat the oven to 120 C / Gas 1/2. Grease a baking tray.
- Place the tomatoes on the baking tray and drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with crushed garlic. Season.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes until the tomatoes are semi-dried.
- Remove the tomatoes from the oven and stuff with buffalo mozzarella cheese and chopped basil leaves.
- Bake the stuffed tomatoes in the oven for a few minutes until the mozzarella cheese begins to turn golden brown.
- Serve three tomato halves per person with a handful of fresh rocket leaves immediately.
Tip
To make this dish suitable for vegetarian diets, substitute the buffalo mozzarella cheese for vegetarian mozzarella cheese.
