Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
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Slow-roasted cherry tomatoes are intensely sweet and tangy. Add them to salads, pastas, pizza and more.
Last week, a gift arrived at my front door: a huge basket of sweet, homegrown cherry tomatoes from my neighbor Matt’s garden. Inspired by Ina Garten’s Roasted Tomato Caprese Salad, in which she roasts halved plum tomatoes in a vinaigrette mixture to concentrate their flavor, I decided to slow-roast them. Doused in a mixture of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and garlic, and cooked in a low-temperature oven for 2 hours, cherry tomatoes take on an intense, almost sun-dried tomato flavor while retaining their juicy texture. They taste like tomato candy! What’s more, they burst when you cut into them, creating a flavorful sauce for whatever you serve them with.
Roasted cherry tomatoes can be enjoyed in a variety of ways, such as:
- As a side dish with grilled fish or meat
- With burrata cheese
- As a pizza topping
- Over pasta or risotto
- As a bruschetta or cracker topping with burrata, ricotta, or goat cheese
- As an omelette filling
- As a crepe filling
- Over avocado toast
- Puréed and strained to make roasted tomato soup (good hot or cold)
What You’ll Need To Make Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
- 2 lbs (3 pints) cherry tomatoes
- ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1½ tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
Step-by-Step Instructions
Preheat the oven to 275°F and set an oven rack in the middle position. Line a baking sheet with wide heavy-duty aluminum foil.
Put the tomatoes on the lined baking sheet and add the olive oil, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, and garlic.
Using a rubber spatula, toss everything together.
Roast for 2 hours, until the tomatoes are soft and beginning to burst.
Serve hot or at room temperature. The tomatoes will keep in a covered container in the refrigerator for 4-5 days.
How To Freeze Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Roasted tomatoes can also be frozen for up to 3 months. It’s a good idea to divide them into individual portions to thaw as needed to add to pizza, pasta, omelets, crepes, etc.
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Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Slow-roasted cherry tomatoes are intensely sweet and tangy. Add them to salads, pastas, pizza and more.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs (3 pints) cherry tomatoes
- ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1½ tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 275°F and set an oven rack in the middle position. Line a baking sheet with wide heavy-duty aluminum foil.
- Directly on the lined baking sheet, using a rubber spatula, toss the tomatoes with the olive oil, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, and garlic. Roast for 2 hours, until the tomatoes are soft and beginning to burst. Serve hot or at room temperature.
- Make-Ahead/Freezer-Friendly Instructions: The tomatoes will keep in a covered container in the refrigerator for 4-5 days. They can also be frozen for up to 3 months. If freezing them, it's a good idea to divide them into individual portions to thaw as needed.
Nutrition Information
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- Per serving (6 servings)
- Serving size: about 1 cup
- Calories: 117
- Fat: 9 g
- Saturated fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 8 g
- Sugar: 6 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Sodium: 388 mg
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
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Gluten-Free Adaptable Note
To the best of my knowledge, all of the ingredients used in this recipe are gluten-free or widely available in gluten-free versions. There is hidden gluten in many foods; if you're following a gluten-free diet or cooking for someone with gluten allergies, always read the labels of your ingredients to verify that they are gluten-free.
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Fabulous but released so much liquid the toms were swimming in it. Which I wasn’t a huge fan of. Seem to leave a lot of tomato flavor behind in the pan
Absolutely fantastic. Will use this recipe for my whole harvest this year!
This tasted so good and I used it in many dishes. It always raised the level of deliciousness every time. I stored it in a mason jar in the fridge (always making sure it was well-covered in olive oil) and it kept 3 weeks! I did not add sugar, as the balsamic vinegar is already sweet enough for us. I’m getting ready to make it again with the September harvest rolling in. YUMMY!
Ridiculously easy and so delicious. Served it on sliced fresh mozzarella on top of pasta. My grandkids gobbled it down.
Just made this recipe and combined it with ziti pasta and mushrooms.
Wow! What a combo!!
Thanks, as always, Jenn.
Garo
Absolutely delicious and so easy! Served them as part of Jenn’s Burrata with roasted tomatoes at a dinner party and they were a big hit. I used a variety pack of cherry tomatoes (sold as Wild Wonders) and the mix of yellow and red was very pretty
Wonderful recipe. I added sliced onion to the mix, cooked the dish on my Pit Barrel Cooker and added a little Pecan wood for a light smoke. It turned out marvelous. Thanks for the great foundation.
So yum thank you! Easy too, just the slow oven time to plan. Will make this again
Hello I have an event coming up but and a current sale. Will freezing it change the texture and wholeness of the tomatoes.?
Hi Susan, It’s fine to freeze these. See the bottom of the recipe for freezer-friendly instructions. 🙂
We LOVE these! I thought we would, so made a double recipe, which we enjoyed on toast and on omelettes, and then froze the remainder in separate containers. Tonight we thawed a carton and loved the tomatoes spooned over ravioli.
Jenn, I’m so grateful that you almost always tell us how to store recipes, and which can be frozen, etc. So many recipes don’t include that VERY useful information (which is especially helpful for small families or singles.)