tomatoes Archives

Chicken recipes

Spicy chicken livers on toast

20 minutes

Beef recipes

Bolognese with gnocchi

2 1/2 hours

Festival food

Italian toasted cheese, ham and tomato sandwich

5 minutes

Battered and

Fried green tomatoes with buttermilk dressing

5 minutes

Tart recipes

Tomato tarte tatin

20 minutes

Italian recipes

Mussels in roasted tomato and fennel sauce on pasta

40 minutes

Atchar recipes

Home-made tikka paneer with tumeric brinjals, chapattis and date atchar

30 minutes

Tomatoes baked in cream and thyme

20 minutes

Salad recipes

Fresh tomato-and-fennel salad with Parmesan cream

10 minutes

Soup recipes

Sweet paprika soup

35–45 minutes

Roast tomato soup with cheesy phyllo sandwiches

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cooking Time 1 1/4 hours

Ingredients

16 ripe tomatoes, halved
6 T extra virgin olive oil
2 T sugar
4 garlic heads, halved
2 rosemary sprigs
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
2 T tomato paste
500 ml vegetable stock
30 g fresh Italian parsley, to garnish

For the cheesy phyllo sandwiches:

6 phyllo pastry sheets
2 T butter, melted
1 x 500 g Woolworths fresh cheese sauce sachet

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C.

Place the tomatoes on a baking tray, cut side up. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sugar, then add the garlic and rosemary and season to taste. Roast for 45 minutes.

Transfer the roast tomatoes (setting 8 halves aside to garnish), 3 heads garlic, rosemary and juices to a large saucepan. Add the tomato paste and vegetable stock.

Bring to a simmer, then blend until smooth.

To make the cheesy phyllo sandwiches, place 1 sheet phyllo pastry on a baking tray and brush with a little butter. Top with 2 more sheets of pastry, also brushing with butter.

Pour the cheese sauce* over the pastry and layer the remaining sheets of phyllo pastry, also brushing with butter, on top of the cheese sauce.

Bake for 30 minutes or until golden.

Top the soup with the remaining tomato and garlic and serve with the cheesy phyllo sandwiches. Garnish with parsley.

*Cook's note: you can also make your own cheese sauce from scratch.

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Roast tomato soup with cheesy phyllo sandwiches

Roast tomato soup with cheesy phyllo sandwiches

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