Baked Potatoes and Tomatoes
- 1 pound tomatoes, peeled and cut into pieces
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- Salt
- 1/41/2 teaspoon ground chili pepper or flakes
- 8 cloves garlic, peeled and left whole
- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 pounds waxy new potatoes, peeled and quartered or cut in half
- 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
- Put the tomatoes in a baking dish.
- Sprinkle with sugar, salt, and chili pepper.
- Add the rest of the ingredients, mix well, and sprinkle in a little more salt.
- Bake in a preheated 375F oven for 5060 minutes.
- There is a similar dish in Morocco called batata hzina, which means sad potatoes.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon cumin and 1/2 teaspoon ginger to the above.
- Sweet potatoes are treated in the same way.
- For a Turkish dish for 6, fry 2 chopped onions in 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil till soft.
- Add 2 more tablespoons oil and mix with 1 1/2 pounds new potatoes, peeled, boiled, and quartered.
- Add 46 chopped garlic cloves, 1 teaspoon cumin, the peeled and chopped tomatoes, a handful of black olives, 3 sprigs oregano, and 1/21 teaspoon dried red-pepper flakes.
- Bake 4560 minutes at 400F.
tomatoes, sugar, salt, ground chili pepper, garlic, extravirgin olive oil, waxy new potatoes, flatleaf
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/baked-potatoes-and-tomatoes-373468 (may not work)