Cooking guide

Best tomatoes for roasting

Roasting is how you turn ripe tomatoes into something deeper, sweeter and more useful.

Best choices

Cherry tomatoes roast quickly and become sweet. Plum tomatoes give a meatier sauce base. Beef tomatoes work well sliced and roasted with herbs.

Basic method

  1. Cut larger tomatoes in half.
  2. Add oil, salt, pepper and herbs.
  3. Roast until the edges darken and the juices thicken.
  4. Serve whole, blend into sauce or stir through pasta.

Why it works

Roasting drives off water and concentrates the flavour. That makes it perfect for tomatoes that are ripe, soft or too juicy for sandwiches.