Instead of complaining when you have mediocre or damaged tomato harvest, you can actually turn it into something as tasty as the great yield could be. Do you know how? The answer is easy, all you need to do is to turn the tomatoes into oven roasted tomatoes. This process guarantees to turn those unwanted tomatoes into something tasty and wonderful.
In another case, sometimes, our tomato harvests can be more than we expect. When this happens, we may be running out of ideas on how to turn them into something else than we already did. Of course the most common choices are to turn these tomatoes into tomato sauce or tomato paste. After all, them may great companion in the kitchen and there should not be any kitchen in the world that can cook without the great tomato sauce. But if you have done the sauce as well as giving out the tomatoes to neighbors, then what else could you do if not roasting them.
Roasting the tomatoes will remove the juice from the tomato, this way, their flavors would be concentrated. So imagine if you have a very sweet tomato harvest and you roast them into an even sweeter tomato. You can enjoy them right away or you can simply store them in the freezer so that you can also use them for the season after.
Okay, so let us start on the simple roasting process. Although the juicy heirloom tomato would be perfect for the oven tomato roasted, but any tomatoes can do. If you do not have any tomato plants in the garden, then you can simply visit the nearest grocery store or supermarkets. Sometimes, you can find tomatoes on sale when they are almost overripe and they sell very cheap. This too can make great oven roasted tomatoes.
Chop the tomatoes into two and then make a slice of thirds from the halved tomatoes. Put them in a single later, careful not to put them on top of each other, on a baking dish. Coat these slices by using extra virgin olive oil. Then sprinkle them with spices, salt and pepper to taste. As for the spices, you can use dried oregano and fresh rosemary. If you have extra space on the baking dish, then you can use it for garlic cloves.
Put the baking sheet into an oven that was preheated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The time needed to fully roast them may vary because that will depend on different factors such as the type of tomato, the amount of its juice and also the thickness of the slices. However, in average, it may take about 2 to 3 hours.
