Recipes

Squashed Tomatoes

serves 6

Ingredients

• 2 ½ # fresh tomatoes, fully ripe but firm to the touch
• extra-virgin olive oil
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• ground or crumbled dried red chili, or chili flakes
• 6 slices country-style bread
• 1 garlic clove

1. Have ready a charcoal fire. Rinse and dry tomatoes and set them on the grill about 3 inches above the grill. Alternately, preheat a stovetop grill pan over medium high heat. Grill or roast tomatoes until they soften and the skins start to split open. Use tongs to remove tomatoes before they turn totally soft and slip through the grill. Transfer tomatoes to a serving dish and squash them lightly with a fork so that the juices run out a little. Immediately dress them generously with olive oil, salt, black pepper, and chili and mix the dressing into the tomato juices.
2. Toast the bread slices over the embers. Rub a cut clove of garlic over each slice. Spoon the tomato sauce over the toasts. Serve immediately.

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