I love this time of the year, besides the beautiful weather, the fresh fruits and vegetables in the Flea Market are just glorious. Whenever I go to the Flea Market I will fill up my bags with lots of goodies, uncontrollably (it reminds me of Denise Fletcher at Quickies on the Dinner Table, grocery shopping is her catnip). When I get home, I’m like a kid that just came home from trick-o-treating, taking out all my candies from the bag, which one I will eat first and which one I will save for last. I thought this time I bought a lot of grape tomatoes (I love to snack on them actually). Maybe I’ll add them in salad or roast them in the oven or just eat them raw with a little bit of kosher or sea salt.
Then I remember I have this recipe from few years ago from Kathleen Daelemans’ show Cooking Thin in Food TV Network. I love the versatility of this recipe, not only that it’s easy to prepare, there are only few ingredients and it can be served as bruschetta, in pasta or with white fish.
I apologize about my pictures, they’re not as great.
At this point, this can be served as bruschetta or with pasta
Serves 4
2 pints grape tomatoes
2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
15 garlic cloves, peeled
Sea salt
Cracked black pepper
1/2 cup loosely packed basil leaves, torn into halves and thirds
1 to 1 1/4 pounds white fleshed fish
Sliced French baguette (optional)
Boiled pasta (optional)
Or nestle the white fish with the tomatoes and put back in the oven until fish fillets are translucent.
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
In a 9 by 13-inch baking pan, combine tomatoes, oil, garlic, salt, pepper and 1/2 the basil. Roast for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, gently stir. Nestle fish in pan with tomatoes, place back in oven and continue roasting 7 to 10 minutes more or until fish is no longer translucent and tomatoes are just beginning to burst. Remove from oven. Divide fish among serving plates. Add remaining basil to tomatoes. Taste and adjust seasonings. Spoon over fish in equal portions.
I love roasted grape tomatoes - they become even sweeter after roasting. Perfect over fish - nice recipe! Enjoy the 4th of July Holiday!
ReplyDeleteI do the same thing when I go to the farmers market! I love laying out all my goodies and looking at it. Sometimes I even take a picture.
ReplyDeleteOh yep...this is wonderful to make some bruschetta for weekend! It's about lunch time here, and this makes me really hungry!
ReplyDeleteI love grape tomatoes... this is a great summer dish as it's so light and flavorful!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are great and make me want to eat this now! For breakfast.
ReplyDeleteThis looks absolutely wonderful!
ReplyDeletelove basil, tomatoes with fish, roasted is just perfect
ReplyDeleteI like that you served with fish Madin! What a great combination. I like to snack on grape tomatoes too. They are sweet and delish!
ReplyDeleteNo need to apologize for the photo. It looks great and I'm sure it tastes great too!
A beautiful and versatile dish. Absolutely perfect, your pictures are lovely and that fish looks so flaky. Yum!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely recipe. Love the combination of flavors. Great job.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
A beautiful and healthy dish!
ReplyDeleteHi, this is my 1st time here, hop over from Elin's blog. You have a nice and wonderful blog, will visit you more often from now. This is a lovely and healthy recipe.
ReplyDeleteoh this is a great recipe, a lil like mine today great minds think a like I am so going to make this yummy
ReplyDeletehave a great weekend
Rebecca
Fantastic dish...love all of these flavors:) Great recipe!
ReplyDeleteOMG!!! Madin, you KNOW I can so relate to your grocery shopping condition ROFL I feel exactly the same way. My husband thinks I need psychiatric help because I'd rather shop at a market than jewellery or shoe store!! Oh my!
ReplyDeleteThis dish looks wonderful! I love fish and I also love roasted vegetables and none more than tomatoes or cauliflower! This would be a gorgeous lunch or dinner to me!! Just lovely :)
Btw - thanks for the mention and I hope you have a fantastic Fourth of July!
the ingredients sounds great! Love anything combining tomatoes and garlic!
ReplyDeleteI find this time of year overwhelming. What to eat with tomatoes and stone fruit in abundance!! And then I want to cook all sorts of things with these ingredients and then don't because really they taste best as is, fresh and with very little enhancements but oil, salt and pepper.
ReplyDeleteYum! I love grape tomatoes! This looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteFabulous recipe! Thanks Madin!
ReplyDelete-Edwin
The pictures looks so pretty and healthy! I want one of those now.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the Farmers' Markets and can't wait to do my rounds. This dish sounds delightful and healthful! Have a Happy Fourth!
ReplyDeleteI love this time of year too. We are lucky though to have a farmer's market that is open all year round. This dish looks so lovely with the tomatoes roasted like that. Simple, fresh ingredients make all the difference!
ReplyDeleteMadin, This looks delicious! I know what you mean about the excitement about coming home from the flea market! This morning I went to a farmer's market and found a few interesting vegetables. I can't wait to cook them!
ReplyDeleteSimple and fresh. Perfect for this time of year when basil can be grown in the garden!
ReplyDeleteWow... that looks awesome, what a lovely way to cook fish.
ReplyDeleteVery healthy and delicious fish recipe.
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Mmm...looks very delicious! I love the nice smell from the basil. Thanks very much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI think this looks great, very delicious and can I try some?
ReplyDeletegreat recipe love the color and adding fish make a perfect healthy dinner
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Oh Madin, I think the grape tomatoes recipe is great. I like it juicy...plus the fish! I can anytime wallop a few bowls of rice. haha.... (Errr...I think I've to tighten my waist belt first!)Btw, I love shopping at the Flea market too. Hope you're having a wonderful time, dear.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Kristy
This looks fabulous! The flavor combination is really nice.
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate to going to the farmer's market and returning home like a kid with a bag full of candy.
Those tomatoes look so very good!! What a great way to cook fish! It must be so moist and tasty cooked over those tomatoes!
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing and your photo looks great!
Dennis
I love that the fish is roasted on top of the tomatoes! Way to infuse flavor and keep the fish super moist :)
ReplyDeleteOoh Madin, this sounds so delicious and different too. I bet this would be extra wonderful over pasta! I would totally try this, but with the oil spill seafood is off for a while here in FL.
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a nice 4th, Madin!
The fish looks great with the roasted tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteI'm currently obsessed with tomatoes Madin! Especially grape ones. This looks excellent! My mouth is watering for them tossed with pasta. So delicious.
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful! I love tomatoes and basil. They just marry quite well.
ReplyDeleteGrape tomatoes? I've never heard of that before. But I do love roasted tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteHi Madin! I love this dish! Nice photos too! Fish and tomato goes so well together and yes i love snacking on those cherry tomatoes with a little salt too.
ReplyDeleteHere is the post with the flank steak tomato dish as promise: http://cookng.blogspot.com/2010/07/tomato-beef.html
We also make this sauce with a whole fried fish! super family favorite :)
thank you,
Lisa
CookNg Sisters
What a simple, lovely recipe. I am new to your blog, so I took some time this morning to read your earlier posts. I'm so glad I did. Your recipes are wonderful and I love the friendly tone of your blog. I'll be back often. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteI think your pictures look GREAT! Keep on Cooking, Madin!
ReplyDeletexoxox
kd
http://www.kathleendaelemans.com
It looks delicious and an easy recipe too! I'm new here and know I will be returning to see what's cooking! Great blog!
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