Great breakfasts: Baked tomatoes with parmesan cheese, scrambled eggs, toast.
Easy Baked Tomatoes Recipe
Quiet mornings only last for a short while, but when the moment has arrived, we love making the most of the time that we have. Making breakfast and having a great meal to start the day is essential for us. This time allows us to slowly wake up together, make a meal and talk about how to plan our day. And adding some great coffee with the conversation can’t go wrong! Over the last few weeks, breakfast always had a platter of fresh slices of tomatoes, olive oil, fresh basil and some sea salt. It hard to ever get tired of this simple dish, but sometimes we’re craving tomatoes in a different form. Without compromising on the quality of a fresh garden tomato, the idea of a simple baked tomato for breakfast sounded wonderful.
With our onslaught of tomatoes lately, we asked you all to share some of your favorite tomato recipes with us. Thank you all for the amazing, delicious responses. Now we can eat tomatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner with all your input. We read over the list of recipes that you all shared and how convenient it was to find a link from Erina of Shut Up and Cook for baked tomatoes! This was just the push we needed to get our new breakfast agenda going with a different take on tomatoes. Her simple baked tomato recipe with pecorino , but with only parmigiano reggiano on hand, this worked just as wonderful. (Thanks Erina!)
Baked Tomatoes with Scrambled Eggs
Baked tomatoes have such a wonderful juicy, sweet soft texture and when the cheese crisps on top with fragrant herbs, it’s a meal in itself. Adding a nice serving of scrambled egg, crisp toast and great coffee takes this breakfast to a whole new and satisfying level. This is what you call a great breakfast. Baked tomatoes and scrambled eggs are to die for.
Adding to the excitement for us on this morning, we baked up some of our favorite purple cherokee heirloom tomatoes. Since our obsession with heirloom tomatoes started, these purple Cherokees have always been at the top of our list. Though they still need care and attention from diseases and pests, they fruit well and produce gorgeous, sweet and silky fruit. A few days ago we made Cherry tomato pizza, today was baked purple Cherokee tomatoes and tomorrow will be something new again! Thanks for your ideas and for keeping us busy with cooking up tomatoes. And let us know of any favorite breakfast recipes that you have!
hugs,
diane
More of our tomato recipes here.
Cut tomatoes in half & sprinkle with salt, pepper to taste
Generous topping of parmesan cheese, fresh thyme
ready for the oven
hot, warm and delicious
This recipe was originally published in 2012 and updated in 2019 with updated photos.
Baked Tomatoes with Parmesan Cheese & Fresh Herbs
Ingredients
- 2 medium ripe tomatoes
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 2 Tablespoons fresh thyme or herbs
Instructions
- Pre-Heat oven to 450°F. Cut tomatoes in half, place cut side up.
- Drizzle olive oil over tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Add grated parmesan cheese on top to cover the tomato. Then sprinkle fresh chopped herbs or sprigs on top of cheese.
- Bake tomatoes for about 10-15 minutes or until cheese has melted and/or when tomatoes are cooked to your preferred texture. We prefer our baked tomatoes rather soft, spreadable over bread. Yum!
Another beautiful post and mouth-watering recipe! Off to pin it onto my ‘to try’ board!
A great breakfast idea, indeed. And we usually have an abundance of tomatoes and I always try to find new ways to use them. This is definitely on the list too. So pretty as well. Thanks!
waking up slowly together, coffee, harvesting fresh tomatoes from the garden, whipping up eggs, toast . . . absolutely our kind of morning . . . THESE are the moments that define wealth – how very rich our lives are . . . beautiful
This looks so good! I’m a huge fan of starting the day off right with a fantastic breakfast. I cannot survive without breakfast!
Lovely idea for a perfect Summer supper with a green salad and homemade peach ice tea! We eat free-range fresh farm eggs once or twice per week….so this recipe will be perfect may use mozarella instead of Parmesan cheese or may be both! Greetings from So-cal !
Tomatoes are amazing w eggs.
It’s possible that I now need to raid the community garden and have breakfast for lunch….
Karen- Hi Karen! If you were closer you know we’d drop off a box of tomatoes for you. xoxo Hope your Summer is going well.
I wait for summer tomatoes all year long and when the going gets good, I almost make myself sick, I eat so many of them. I can’t wait to try them this way!
Cherokee purples are my absolute favorite – they’re 1/3 of our tomato section this year, and we JUST pulled the first one off last night. I can’t wait to make these once we have a few more.
Brandi- congrats on your first one! wishing you many more cherokee purples to come.
Simply gorgeous! I want this for breakfast now!
Now THIS is a fabulous way to use those tomatoes you have (I’m sure you’re finding lots of creative ways to cook with them). Love baked tomatoes with eggs!
Sounds like a wonderful breakfast to me!
Those tomatoes are beauties!! I’m craving this for breakfast right now.
That’s almost a full English breakfast, which I love having when we visit my husband’s family in the UK. You just need to add some baked beans, fried mushrooms, and black pudding. It’s making my mouth water just thinking of it! And I do like your addition of cheese on top of baked tomatoes–I usually just use olive oil, salt, and herbs. It’s night but I’m craving breakfast now, and it’s all your fault. 🙂
Abigail- oooh, fried mushrooms and baked beans sound wonderful. Never had black pudding before.
Those are some lovely tomatoes! I love that the seeds and pulp are so completely green against the rosy tomato flesh.
You should open a bed and breakfast and put this on the menu – I’d be your first guest. The breakfasts around here are no where near as pretty as yours, that’s for sure!