Recipes with tomatoes

Gnocchi gratin Mozzarella

This mozzarella gratin dish is perfect for summer days, like today. you can prepare it in advance, and grill just before lunch. Tomato, basil and melted mozzarella are the very essence of Mediterranenan summer flavors.

Pappa al pomodoro soup

A recipe form the Starters and soup cookbook, also filed in Budget Friendly, Gluten Free, Healty Choice, Italian Classics, Kid's Favourites.

This tomato soup, typical from Tuscany is one of my favorite soups indeed. Here in Italy it’s a sort of institution: we have nursery rhymes about it, and a song that the last 10 generations know. It’s slightly acidic taste, due to tomatoes, is tempered by burrata cheese and basil.

Linguine asparagus and shrimp

A recipe form the Pasta and rice cookbook, also filed in Healty Choice, Italian Classics, Occasions.

Sometimes there’s nothing better than seafood pasta… in those cases seafood pasta doesn’t get much better than this. Try this asparagus and shrimps linguine recipe, enjoy a fresh glass of white wine… you’ll be happy, then.

Vegan vegetable ring

A recipe form the Starters and soup cookbook, also filed in Budget Friendly, Gluten Free, Healty Choice, Vegan.

A really easy to make vegan recipe, that needs a minimum cooking, and will fit the most demanding palates, including those who did not embrace the vegan choice. A plate rich in fiber and vegetable protein.

Caponata

A recipe form the Starters and soup cookbook, also filed in Budget Friendly, Italian Classics, Vegan.

Caponata is a typical Sicilian recipe with pleasant Mediterranean tastes: tomato, eggplants, basil, capers pine nuts and olives. It can be prepared in advance and stored for days in the refrigerator in an airtight container. It’s a fantastic appetizer or side dish, that you’ll love.

Italian bruschetta recipe

A recipe form the Starters and soup cookbook, also filed in Budget Friendly, Finger Food & Bitesize, Italian Classics, Ready Steady.

The success of this recipes depends totally on quality of the few ingredients required: fresh, juicy tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil are paramount! If you are bbq-ing a great idea is grilling the bread slices over the bbq. In some Italian families, bruschetta just isn’t right unless the bread has been grilled over the bbq.

Eggplants Parmigiana Original Recipe

A recipe form the Starters and soup cookbook, also filed in Italian Classics, Kid's Favourites, Occasions.

Eggplants Parmigiana is a classic Sicilian casserole, that will satisfy even the most picky eaters. The funny think is that it can be considered a vegetarian dish… but is can satiate a tiger…

Crunchy roasted pesto tomatoes

A recipe form the Sides cookbook, also filed in Budget Friendly, Italian Classics, Kid's Favourites.

Preheat oven at 200°C/ 400F/ Gas 6 Cut tomato in halves, long width, and scoop out the seed and the pulp, that you’ll keep apart. Put basil leaves, Parmesan cheese, pine nuts, garlic, half of the tomato pulp and 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a food processor and blend roughly. Add […]