Oven Roast Tomato with Linguine for the mid week meal

This is a great, easy midweek meal. If you oven roast tomatoes, you'll find it is one of the best ways to bring out the sweetness. No fuss, just healthy and tasty.

This recipe takes about 30 minutes from start to serve.

You can add some cooked prawns, but you won’t really need them. It’s just a few tomatoes, olive oil, basil, garlic and pasta, that’s it!
If your starving when you get home, just use a potato peeler
to shave off some parmesan cheese to nibble on to keep you going.

Here’s the recipe:

Serves 2
Prep Time 5 mins
Cooking Time 30 mins
Ingredients

• 5 Large vine tomatoes
• 2 Cloves garlic, finely chopped
• Handful of fresh basil, roughly torn
• 3 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Parmesan cheese
• 250g Linguine

Method

• Score the tomatoes and put into a large bowl and pour boiling water over them
• Leave for 30 seconds, drain and run under cold water
• The skin will peel off easily
• Slice or chop the tomatoes, place into a medium roasting dish
• Mix the garlic and basil together in 2 tbsp of olive oil
• Pour over the tomatoes
• Bake in a preheated oven 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6 for 30 minutes
• Just before the end of cooking, bring a large saucepan of water to a rolling boil
• Add 1 Tbsp olive oil and drop in the pasta
• Cook for 1-2 minutes, drain
• Pour the pasta back into the saucepan, toss in the tomatoes and any oil remnants left in the tray, make sure the pasta is covered with the oil
• Season with lots of freshly ground black pepper
• Sprinkle on a few parmesan shavings
• Serve

Equipment

• Large saucepan
• Large bowl

Shopping List

• 5 Large vine tomatoes
• 2 Cloves garlic
• Handful of fresh basil
• 2 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Parmesan cheese

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