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Please make sure that you get the best of ingredients that you can for this recipe.
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First wash the tomatoes , the dry them with a paper towel.
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Cut of the top end of each tomato to form a flat base , leaving the stem end intact.
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Heat the olive oil on very low heat, add the tomatoes with the cut side down into the pan, carefully and one by one.
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Gently break the garlic into 2 halves add one half to the oil, use the other half at a later date.
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Cover the pan , cook them very slowly, about 35 minutes or so, making sure that the oil at no point starts to fry the tomatoes or the garlic.
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Make sure that the tomatoes keep their shape when transferring them to serving plate.
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Sprinkle with the cayenne pepper.
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Serve on their own with bread, meat, fish, pasta or potatoes of choice or as here with slices of soft goats cheese and a garnish of rosemary.
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You can pierce the skin slightly and peel it back, like leaves, to expose the cooked tomato .
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This makes it look prettier and easy to remove the skin if you don't want to eat it .
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The cooked garlic will have a sweet slightly smoked flavour and will be buttersoft and can be spread on bread.
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The leftover juice/oil can be served with the tomatoes to be soaked up by the bread , used to roast potatoes or can be used as a base for a sauce or gravy.
