Recipe for roasted cherry tomatoes with pasta: 59 photos
FAQ
Here are some ideas for making use of a lot of cherry tomatoes.
- Freeze them. Cherry tomatoes freeze beautifully whole. ...
- Pickle them. ...
- Oven or pan roast them with olive oil, salt, and pepper. ...
- Consider oven drying them into intense morsels that can be used like any other sundried tomato (click here).
Most recipes that use cherry tomatoes call for raw ones, but they can also be steamed, sauteed, or roasted. Cooking them can reduce the amount of vitamin C they contain, but it may actually boost the other antioxidants your body can absorb.
The main reason roasted tomatoes end up soggy is because they are overcrowded on the pan. Make sure to use a baking sheet large enough to accommodate all the tomatoes with a little breathing room. Roasted tomatoes are juicier than other roasted vegetables, so some liquid is OK (and it's concentrated and yummy-tasting).
Lean into the Wrinkles by Blistering Tomatoes. It's perfect for just this situation: It doesn't matter if they start out slightly soft and wrinkled because that's how you want them to end up anyway. And searing them with high heat concentrates and deepens the tomato's flavors!
It's so simple to freeze whole cherry tomatoes that it hardly warrants instructions; just wash, dry, and freeze! Wash and dry cherry tomatoes. Lay the tomatoes out in a single layer on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, and freeze for about two hours, or until frozen solid.