Blue Cheese Broiled Tomatoes

Submitted by Leslie O

"These are very filling, I serve with a salad and crusty bread. Good for a light dinner."

 

• Ready In: 16mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 large tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 dash pepper
• 1 cup soft breadcrumbs
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
• 1⁄4 cup crumbled blue cheese

directions

1. Cut stems off tomatoes and cut each tomato into 2 think slices (in half).
2. Put on broiler rack.
3. Combine sugar, basil, salt and pepper and sprinkle little of mixture on each tomato slice.
4. Add bread crumbs to melted butter and toss lightly with a fork.
5. Add blue cheese and toss again lightly.
6. Spoon on tomato slices and slip under broiler until crumbs are nicely browned, about 1 minute.
7. Serve Immediately.

Reviews

[Lucky Lulu]

Made this without the sugar and used gorganzola instead of blue cheese. It was delicious.

 

[mollymuffin]

I wanted a quick supper, and not having fresh bread crumbs or wanting to try to make some I made this my way. Spread butter on 2 slices of sourdough bread, top with tomatoes,salt,pepper then cheese. I broiled until cheese melted and bread was crisp. I will be making this often or until I am out of garden tomatoes. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[nott2339]

I enjoyed this inspirational recipe. I did make a few changes, though. I used garlic and herb infused olive oil instead of butter. I also used feta cheese instead of blue. I bet goat cheese would be good, too! Broiling 1 minute left my tomatoes still hard and crumbs barely toasted, so I did 3 minutes under the broiler and then baked them at 375 for 5 minutes to soften the tomatoes. Thank you for a tempting recipe. It was a delicious lunch.

 

[Lois 11]

Very easy and very, very tasty. Good as a side dish and would make a good lunch entree. Will make again.

 

[Meryl]

Wow, are these fantastic! I made these as a New Year's Eve appetizer, and we couldn't stop eating them! I added some extra black pepper and cut down on the salt a little, but other than that, I followed the recipe exactly. Besides tasting great, it's very easy to prepare. I will definitely be making this again! Thanks, Leslie!