Roasted Campari tomatoes with basil
Simple but very flavorful. Serve these as a side or add them on top of a dish that you would ordinarily use a tomato sauce to. Great on an alfredo style pasta.
Servings: 2
Equipment
- Baking dish
Ingredients
- 1 Pint Cherry or Campari tomatoes
- 1 Tbsp Calabrian chili paste Calabrian Chili is very hot, you can add more if you like.
- 1 Tsp Minced garlic
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 8 Basil leaves
- Water
Instructions
- Wash tomatoes and place in a baking dish.
- Add water to yield about 1/4" deep in your baking dish.
- Combine garlic and chili paste. Sprinkle on top of tomatoes. Finish with salt and pepper.
- Bake for 15 minutes in a 350° oven.
- Toss in the juices, move to plates and top with fresh basil.
Notes
This is a Snap Pea Sheep recipe.
Calabrian chili has a flavor all it's own. I purchased chili flakes and chili pods online through Amazon and Yummy Bazaar. Tutto Calabria is one brand I found. Tutto Calabria products are packed in oil so for a long time I just used red chili flakes or chili pods.
Chili pods can be soaked in water to soften then be used sliced or diced. The pods can also be put into a grinder to make ground chili powder.
When I found the Trader Joe's brand, it was cheap, flavorful and seemed to have a very little amount of oil.
Calabrian chili's are a type of pepperoncini pepper and seem to be exclusively from Italy.