During summer when tomato is abundant, you may be out of ideas on what else you can do with the stock of tomatoes that are piling up. These fruits would not last for more than one week on their prime ripe condition, so you better act fast to create amazing dishes. Of course you can always make yourself canned tomato sauce, tomato paste or tomato pickles that can make these fruits last longer. However, fresh tomatoes are always a treat. It is one of those reasons why we cannot wait for the summer to come. This fruit is so versatile that you can make the while dishes from them. You can make tomatoes into snacks, appetizers, main dishes, desserts, soups, salads and even drink.
Tomatoes can be created into dozens of delicious meals. Not only that those meals are delicious, but they are also healthy. After all, those tiny succulent fruits have so many vitamins as well as minerals that can be very useful for our bodies. Two of the most prominent vitamins are the Vitamin A and Vitamin C. In addition, there is the mineral called lycopene that can help to reduce one of the scariest disease on the planet, cancer. Lycopene can help to reduce many types of cancers such as the prostate cancer. It reduces the risk significantly. According to studies on the related field, the lycopene can reduce to 35% of the risk.
Italia is one of the courtiers in the world that apply tomatoes in so many of their traditional dishes. Pasta is not going to be pasta without the tomato sauce. Can you really imagine that there was a time in the Italian history that they were not using tomatoes in the food because they thought that the fruit was poisonous? Instead the used the tomatoes for table decorations because they simply could not resist to use them even though they were poisonous.
Anyway, now that the Italians are blessed with tomatoes, we can use them in more dishes that we can think of. Forget the pasta because there are more recipes than that. Most likely that you have heard of the bruschetta, even though you may not able to pronounce the word correctly. Well, the right pronunciation for the word is brusketta. Combine bruschetta with tomatoes and you will get a great tomato bruschetta that will make even the children satisfy. This recipe is a great way to capture the real sweetness of summer tomatoes. Added with garlic and basil and the recipe would be perfect.
