Gary Rhodes - Sweet Cherry Tomatoes With Melting Mozzarella

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 350 -450 g cherry tomatoes
• 2 -3 ounces buffalo mozzarella
• olive oil, for dressing
• coarse sea salt
• fresh ground black pepper, to taste
• brown sugar, for sprinkling
• 4 lemon wedges
• 50 g basil leaves
• 100 ml olive oil

Recipe

• 1 preheat the grill.
• 2 halve the cherry tomatoes horizontally, placing them on a very shallow large serving dish or plate.
• 3 slice the mozzarella reasonably thinly.
• 4 to make the basil oil, place the basil leaves in a small processor.
• 5 warm the olive oil and pour over the leaves.
• 6 season with salt and pepper and blend the basil to a purée.
• 7 strain through a sieve and set aside.
• 8 drizzle olive oil over the tomatoes, placing a nugget of sea salt on each half.
• 9 grind some pepper on the top and sprinkle with sugar.
• 10 place under a hot grill.
• 11 once they begin to sizzle, remove from grill and place mozzarella on top of the tomatoes.
• 12 replace dish under the grill, until cheese has melted.
• 13 serve with basil oil and bread.