Garlicky Roasted Tomatoes with Burrata
I may or may not have an obsessive personality. Taylor Swift on repeat? 100%. Scrolling TikTok for hours? You know it! Obsessing over a new recipe and eating it multiple times in a single week? Oh yeah!
Meet my latest food obsession: garlicky roasted tomatoes with burrata. If you’re like me and you crave burrata most days, then you have to get your hands on this recipe that you’ll be craving, whipping up and devouring all summer long. This recipe is so simple it hardly qualifies as a recipe at all. A simple guideline, if you will, is all it takes to achieve the most perfect appetizer or light lunch/dinner.
Step one of this recipe is getting your hands on some perfect, heirloom cherry or grape tomatoes. This is essential! Find yourself a farmer’s market or bougie grocery store and splurge on the fancy, most delicious looking tomatoes because this recipe deserves that kind of love. While you’re at it, buy yourself a bottle of rosé or sauvignon blanc and/or a bouquet of fresh flowers. This recipe screams “indulgence” and “self care”, so treat yoself!
Once you’ve fully romanticized cooking this recipe, all it takes is a few minor yet essential ingredients. A bunch of fresh garlic, really, really good olive oil (channel Ina Garten on this one), salt and pepper. Boom. Done. Roasted, literally.
These jammy and garlicky tomatoes would be good alone or spread on crusty bread, but of course we’re talking indulgence here with this recipe. Freshly chopped basil, creamy, dreamy burrata and garlicky crostini turn these perfect tomatoes into a show-stopping dish. All that’s left is to pour yourself that glass of wine, sit back, relax and savor this one, because you are about to become obsessed!
Garlicky Roasted Tomatoes with Burrata
Ingredients
1-2 cups cherry or grape heirloom tomatoes
2-3 cloves garlic, minced plus 1 whole garlic clove
Really good extra virgin olive oil
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
8 oz fresh burrata
Maldon sea salt
Fresh basil, julienned
Baguette, cut into 1/2 inch slices
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a small or medium-sized baking dish, toss tomatoes with minced garlic a good drizzle of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Roast for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, lay baguette slices evenly on a baking sheet. Drizzle or brush olive oil on one side of each piece of baguette. After 30 minutes of the tomatoes roasting, toast baguette along with the tomatoes another 10-12 minutes, until tomatoes are jammy and blistered, and baguette is just slightly golden brown.
Immediately rub whole garlic clove on warmed and toasted baguette slices. Serve tomatoes on individual plates or in the same baking dish. Sprinkle with julienned basil and serve with burrata. Drizzle burrata with more olive oil and Maldon sea salt. Enjoy!
