Baked Tomatoes

Name: Baked Tomatoes
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp capers; 5 sprigs flat-leaf Italian parsley; 1 medium clove garlic; 227 grams 1/2 loaf Italian bread (about; 3 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil, or more as needed; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 larges tomatoes or 4 small ones

Baked Tomatoes is a vegan side dish. This recipe makes 4 servings with 422 calories, 5g of protein, and 31g of fat each. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour. If you have bread, tomatoes, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 250°F.

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Cut away and discard the crust from the loaf of bread and cut the loaf in half lengthwise.

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Bread

Crust

Bake for 5 minutes on each side.

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Let cool for 10 to 15 minutes.

Raise the oven temperature to 350°F on convection heat or to 375°F in an oven without convection heat.

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Cut the bread into chunks small enough to fit easily in a food processor.

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Bread

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Place them in the food processor and pulse until you have fairly even crumbs that are not too fine. Set aside 1 cup of crumbs and reserve any extra for another use.

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Finely chop enough parsley leaves to measure about 2 tablespoons. Peel and finely chop the garlic.

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Parsley

Garlic

Put the parsley, garlic, bread crumbs, capers, salt, and olive oil in a mixing bowl.

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Breadcrumbs

Olive Oil

Parsley

Capers

Garlic

Salt

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Mix well until the ingredients are evenly distributed and the bread crumbs are well coated with the olive oil. If there doesn't seem to be enough olive oil to coat them all, add a little more.

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Olive Oil

Cut the tomatoes in half crosswise and scoop out all the seeds.

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Tomato

Seeds

Place the tomatoes, cut side up, on a baking sheet. Fill the cavities with a generous amount of the bread-crumb mixture, heaping it on top of each tomato half.

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Tomato

Bread

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Baking Sheet

Bake until a brown crust forms, about 20 minutes.

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Crust

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Serve hot or at room temperature.

From Hazan Family Favorites: Beloved Italian Recipes by Guiliano Hazan. Copyright © 2012 Giuliano Hazan; photographs copyright © 2012 Joseph De Leo. Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, an imprint of ABRAMS.