Simple Parmesan Tomatoes

Submitted by Recipe Reader

"A light and easy delicious side dish."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 8 plum tomatoes
• 1 cup plain breadcrumbs
• 1⁄3 cup parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 teaspoon thyme leaves
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cut tomatoes in half lengthwise. Squeeze or scoop out some pulp and seeds with a spoon. Turn upside down on paper towels to drain.
3. Place tomatoes cut side up in oven safe dish, and season with salt and pepper.
4. In a bowl, combine bread crumbs, parmesan, thyme, garlic and olive oil. Season with pepper.
5. Spoon crumb mixture over each tomato half and bake 10 minutes.

Reviews

[K9 Owned]

So simple but so very, very good! I have wanted to make these for some time but held out until my garden tomatoes were ready. I am gla I did. An excellent treatment for fresh tomatoes!

 

[2Bleu]

We used fresh tomatoes that our neighbor had given us from her garden. This is a great side dish for something nice and different, and very easy to put together.

 

[CookingONTheSide]

This is a great side dish, especially if you love tomatoes! I can't wait to try this with my garden-fresh tomatoes! I did add some sweet onions to this, but that's it! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Susiecat too]

This is easy and good. I added a little bit of dried basil, too. I think next time I might keep the tomato pulp and chop it in with the breadcrumb mixture, because although the breadcrumb mix is tasty, it is dry. I will hold on to this recipe and try it again when my garden starts to produce this year's tomato crop -- a dream for now, since the garden is under inches of snow and ice as I type this. Thanks, Recipe Reader, for a really good, classic recipe.

 

[riffraff]

The only addition I made was some minced onion. A great side dish to just about anything. Super simple and low in fat and calories!