Tomato recipes to use up a bumper crop

Early final week, a buddy of mine who tends an city farm in Silver Lake despatched me one of the best message I can hope for in summer time. “I’ve a basket of tomatoes for you!”

After a flurry of coronary heart emojis, my thoughts acquired to dreaming about all of the tomato recipes I’d make with this reward. When he arrived with the tomatoes, there was a beautiful number of yellow cherry-sized tomatoes, some ruby-red spherical specimens, and a Peruvian tomato that appeared like somebody glued a bunch of cherry tomatoes into one massive tomato.

This gesture jogged my memory of farmers again in Mississippi who would at all times present up at our doorstep in summer time to reward buckets of additional tomatoes. I do know this occurs all over the place all around the nation too, so I wished to suggest some recipes to make use of them up if you end up in the identical (lucky) state of affairs.

I instantly considered my Savory Cherry Tomato Clafoutis, which is extra like a frittata, to make use of up these sunny cherry tomatoes. A slice of that with espresso is one among my favourite breakfasts in summer time, whether or not eaten scorching or chilly the subsequent day.

A handful of barely bigger, Christmas-light-shaped tomatoes appeared excellent to confit and throw into my buddy Alexis deBoschnek’s Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta. Prepare dinner up a little bit of pasta, then simply stir within the tomatoes and the ricotta — I can’t consider a better summer time dish.

With the remainder of the bigger tomatoes, I need to exhibit their beautiful shade, so I’ll make Rodney Scott’s Marinated Tomatoes and Onions to maintain round to make use of as a type of pickle on the facet of meals all through the week. And I’ll use some wedges to make Jenny Dorsey’s Tomato & Egg Stir-Fry, which is one among my favourite pairings, the creamy eggs softening the intense acidity of the tomatoes.

And when I’ve just a few stragglers or trimmed fine details of tomatoes left on the finish of the week, I’ll make my Charred Gazpacho, which will get its flippantly smoky taste from some grilled bread. It takes just some minutes to whip up and shops effectively within the fridge for days — excellent for me to seize after I need a refreshing style of that reward of great tomatoes that began the week.

Savory Cherry Tomato Clafoutis

Farmers market cherry tomatoes — usually no larger than marbles — work completely right here, however so do grocery retailer grape and cherry varieties; simply use the smallest ones you’ll find. Serve this dish for breakfast or with a salad for lunch.
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Prepare dinner time: 35 minutes.

Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry

A traditional Chinese language preparation, tomatoes and eggs are cooked right here with scallions and garlic, after which served with a cumin-scented rice and easy garlicky greens. Make the greens and stir-fry whereas the rice is cooking so every thing comes collectively on the identical time.
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Prepare dinner time: half-hour.

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Marinated Tomatoes and Onions

Relying on the number of tomato you utilize, the flavour can be some mixture of candy, tangy and salty. That’s the identical mixture within the dressing right here. There’s a bit of sugar in each the French dressing and the rib rub that helps heighten the sweetness of the tomatoes and onion.
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Prepare dinner time: quarter-hour.

Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta

Tomato confit is nice on nearly every thing — topped on pizza, piled excessive on charred sourdough, swirled in with creamy polenta — however I discover it’s significantly good blended into pasta with heaps of ricotta. When you could have an abundance of tomatoes on the counter which have began to wither or have simply handed their peak taste, this can be a nice solution to resurrect them.
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Prepare dinner time: 20 minutes, plus 2 hours, largely unattended, for tomatoes.

Charred Gazpacho

The flavour of charred bread is the important thing to this vivid, bubbly gazpacho, so use one of the best you’ll find. I like utilizing candy cherry tomatoes right here as a result of you possibly can chuck them into the blender with no prep, however when you’ve got tremendous ripe beefsteak or heirloom tomatoes, give them a tough chop and use these as an alternative.
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Prepare dinner time: quarter-hour, plus 1 hour chilling.

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