Easy stuffed tomatoes recipe | Good Food

Stuffed tomato on toast

6 really big tomatoes
2 balls of mozzarella
12 basil leaves
4 pieces cooked red peppers
from a jar
2 tbsp pesto
or red pesto
6 slices ciabatta
or crusty bread, toasted and brushed with olive oil

Method

step 1
Ask a grown-up to turn the oven to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. Cut the tops off tomatoes (keep tops) and scoop the insides into a sieve set over a bowl.
step 2
Cut the mozzarella into chunks and snip or tear up the basil leaves.
step 3
Sit the tomatoes in a baking dish. Add a few chunks of mozzarella into each tomato.
step 4
Put a few torn basil leaves into each one.
step 5
Tear or snip the red pepper into pieces, then add a piece to each tomato. Add more mozzarella, basil and pepper in layers until each tomato is full.
step 6
Put a blob of pesto in each tomato, then put the tops back on. Pour over the juices from the tomato insides. Ask a grown-up to put them in the oven for 20 mins.