The recipe
Minimize 350g of tomatoes in half and put them in a roasting tin. Season with salt, pepper, a number of sprigs of thyme and a crushed clove of garlic. Set the oven at 200C/gasoline mark 6.
Peel 4 medium-sized banana shallots or small onions, then minimize every in half after which into thick segments. Add them to the tomatoes. Pour 3 tbsp of olive oil over the tomatoes and shallots, then bake within the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
Minimize a 250g lump of halloumi into 2 thick slices. Take away the roasting tin from the oven, then tuck the halloumi among the many tomatoes and shallots. Return to the oven for quarter-hour. Shred 10 giant basilleaves into small items, then tuck them into the tomatoes whereas the roasting tin is out of the oven – the heat will launch the perfume from the basil – and serve. Serves 2
Feta is an accessible various for halloumi. Go straightforward on the salt whenever you’re seasoning it to start out.
That is a type of recipes I prefer to pile on to sizzling toast (particularly when constituted of ciabatta), spooning over the juices from the roasting tin as I am going.
You might introduce a number of slices of courgette. Tuck them in among the many tomatoes earlier than the dish goes within the oven.
The shallot segments must be really mushy and beginning to caramelise on the edges. Should you can’t discover any of the big torpedo-shaped banana shallots, then use small onions as an alternative. The essential level is for them to be mushy, tender and candy, so test their progress frequently.
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