I love changing up my traditional recipes by using summer vegetables from the garden. This easy and quick to make Roasted Tomato Carbonaro uses fresh picked cherry tomatoes.
Ingredients:
One pint of cherry tomatoes. If you are picking them fresh, approximately 15 or so.
3 Tablespoons canola or olive oil
1/2 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
1/2 Teaspoon fine ground Himalayan pink salt
Black Pepper to taste
3 cloves of elephant garlic, chopped fine
6 pieces turkey bacon
Dash of red pepper flakes (to taste)
1/2 cup Italian parsley
1/4 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 pound Spaghetti
Equipment:
1 piece of parchment paper to fit a baking pan
Baking sheet pan
Deep skillet
Stock pot to cook spaghetti
Directions:
Heat the oven to 350 degrees
Line the baking sheet with parchment paper
Wash tomatoes and put in bowl
Pour Olive oil into bowl of tomatoes and mix until tomatoes are covered in oil
Pour 1/2 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs onto the tomato mixture. Mix well so tomatoes are coated.
Put tomato mixture on baking pan, and if there are extra bread crumbs in the bowl, just toss them over the tomatoes.
Place in the preheated oven.
Let these bake until tomatoes caramelize, but do not let them disintegrate in the oven. The tomatoes will look shriveled. This could take 20 minutes or so.
Fill a pot with water to cook the spaghetti.
Lightly salt the water.
Once it is boiling, add the spaghetti.
Use a deep skillet and add a teaspoon of oil and cook the bacon until it is crispy.
Drain on paper towel.
Chop the bacon into small pieces.
Add garlic to the skillet and cook until it begins to change color.
Add two ladles of the boiling spaghetti water to the skillet with the garlic.
Stir very well and let the water evaporate.
Lower the heat and stir in the parsley.
When the tomatoes are done, remove from the oven.
Add the al dente spaghetti to the skillet and mix well. Do not drain or rinse the spaghetti.
Add the tomatoes and bacon to the mixture and continue mixing until all Is thoroughly blended.
If the mixture seems too dry, add a bit more spaghetti water to the skillet
Turn off the heat, sprinkle with the Parmesan and serve.
Enjoy
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