Baked tomatoes: they can be cooked in different ways in the oven

Any baked vegetables are very multifunctional. They can act as a side dish, are an excellent snack. And with a certain stuffing is a completely independent (and very tasty!) Dish. Most housewives are well aware of this issue. However, most often they are baked either eggplant or pepper. But baked tomatoes in the oven make these vegetables quite successful competition. And they are prepared quickly enough.

Whole Tomatoes

Most often in the oven prepare sliced or stuffed tomatoes. If you are interested in baked tomatoes entirely in the oven, you will have to pay attention to small fruits. Large in the process of processing softened, lose shape (down to the mushy state) and thus can not be baked. So in this way baked cherry tomatoes in the oven are most often prepared. They are small, have a dense, but a fleshy structure, which is fundamentally important in this case. So, tomatoes are bought as small as possible and they are laid out in the form where they will be baked. For each vegetable put a pinch of pressed garlic - so small that one slice is enough for 300 g of tomatoes. Preparation is made of a teaspoon of acacia honey, half a stalk of balsamic vinegar and the same amount of olive oil (to replace undesirable) of oil. Vegetables are watered with this sauce and sprinkled with sea salt, chopped thyme and ground pepper. Very tasty whole baked tomatoes are obtained. In the oven, they will stay half an hour at 180 degrees.

Baked tomatoes with spinach

With the embodiment of this recipe will have to tinker, but the result is a hassle. Here, too, cherries or other small tomatoes are required - a little less than a half kilo. The pan is covered with greased parchment, vegetables are cut into it, cut into halves. To make amazingly delicious baked tomatoes in the oven, the recipe advises you to sprinkle them with olive oil and immediately pepper, salt. Bake them for a short time - up to 20 minutes. Shortly before cooking, about 300 grams of spinach are fried in the same frying pan (for a minute, not longer). The greens are put on a wide dish, on it - baked tomatoes in the oven. Tomatoes are divided into cubes of feta cheese (60 g), toasted pine nuts (grams 15), and the whole design is poured with a dressing made from the juice of half an orange, its peelings, spoons of sugar, finely chopped small red onion, a large spoonful of mustard, the same The amount of lemon juice, salt and pepper. You can eat!

English breakfast: tomatoes and eggs

Inhabitants of foggy Albion consume baked tomatoes in the oven for breakfast. To do this, large tomatoes are gutted: the tip is cut off, the core is carefully removed, and the resulting "cups" are put on a baking tray. In each of them, an egg is hammered into, into which a piece of oil is neatly attached. Do not forget about salt and pepper! In the oven, such tomatoes are sent for 20 minutes; The temperature is set at 200 degrees. Want to get real English baked tomatoes - in the oven before taking them out, brown your bacon slices and serve with vegetables on a slice of black bread.

Green Sauce for Baked Tomatoes

Even more interesting dish can be obtained if you cook stuffed tomatoes, baked in the oven. You can start tomatoes with different products. For example, crumble the eggplant, quickly fry it, combine it with the tomato pulp, taken out to get "containers", with spices (Italian herbs perfectly suited) and a little more to put out the filling. It is laid out on tomatoes, which should be covered with cut tops. A delicious flavor of such baked tomatoes in the oven is due to the green sauce. It is made from basil, spinach and garlic, passed through a blender. The resulting puree boils on a slow fire for about six minutes, until excess water evaporates (the sauce should be thick). Prepared tomatoes are sent for half an hour to the oven. It is not heated very much - up to 150 degrees. Even when served, they are watered with sauce. Bear in mind that they need to be hot.

Lovers of meat

Do not want to get by only vegetarian food - buy or make minced beef. It must be combined with boiled rice in a ratio of 2: 1, add chopped onions, thyme, garlic and middins taken from tomatoes. To stuffed tomatoes, baked in the oven, do not break up in the oven, they need to be cut with a needle or toothpick. Tomatoes are put in a form, closed with "caps", cut from them, shifted by thyme. At the bottom of the baking tray, a little water is poured. In a quarter of an hour, baked vegetables are ready (if you set the temperature at 180 degrees).

Mushroom filling

Simply and quickly prepared stuffed tomatoes, baked in the oven and stuffed with champignons. Mushrooms (300 grams are enough for a dozen tomatoes) are finely crumbled and roasted with two chopped onions and two slices of garlic. To the ready "stuffing" is added finely chopped greens and seasonings. The filling is put in tomatoes, hard cheese is rubbed on top and a spoon of mayonnaise is poured. The oven heats up to 180 degrees. Medium-sized tomatoes will be prepared for a quarter of an hour. If you find large copies, increase the time to twenty minutes. When you are going to put the baked tomatoes in the oven on the table, put sour cream on them and sprinkle them with greens.