Tomato and Goat’s Cheese Crumble
"This savoury crumble is a twist on the more usual quintessential English dessert crumbles. It’s a really tasty supper dish and comes from the BBC Good Food “101 Veggie Dishes” book. There are no herbs listed in the original, or here, but feel free to add some if you like. This is equally good served with a green salad or vegetables. Recipe posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
photo by Kumquat the Cats fr
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 2 1⁄4 lbs tomatoes (mixed varieties, including cherry)
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 ounces goat's cheese (firm or soft)
- 2 ounces pine nuts
- 4 ounces fresh white breadcrumbs
- 2 ounces parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- salt and pepper
directions
- Pre-heat the oven to 375 F, 190 C/ gas mark 5.
- Roughly chop the tomatoes, leaving the cherry ones whole; heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pad, add the chopped tomatoes and seasoning and cook for 10 minutes (stirring occasionally) until softened; remove from the heat and stir in cherry tomatoes.
- Spoon half the tomato mix into an oven proof dish (1 litre/1 ¾ pints size) and crumble half of the goat’s cheese on top; repeat the layers.
- Heat remaining olive oil in a frying pan and lightly fry the pine nuts and breadcrumbs; remove from the heat and stir in half the parmesan; scatter breadcrumb mix over the tomatoes and cheese, then top with the rest of the parmesan.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden.
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This recipe was really delightful, a treat for sure. I halved the ingredients and used 2 whole red tomatoes and 1 pint yellow cherry tomatoes fresh from the farmer's market (I love cooking with fresh tomatoes!). I also toasted 2 slices of sourdough bread which I then threw into the blender to process into fine crumbs and added a sprinkling of dried basil. The crunchy breadcrumbs and tomatoes were terrific together. (I also cut back on the oil to 2 teaspoons and used low fat cheese.) I baked it for a full 25 minutes. You might want to let it stand a little longer though, those cherry tomatoes were hot. Ouch! But they sure tasted good! Thanks very much, Caroline.
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Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.