Tomatoes on Toast with Aged Lancashire Cheese

Name: Tomatoes on Toast with Aged Lancashire Cheese
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: wood sorrel leaves or chives, to garnish; 4 slices of sourdough bread, 1 cm thick; 4 large ripe tomatoes; 1 tablespoon rapeseed oil, plus extra to drizzle; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 garlic clove, peeled and roughly crushed; a few sprigs of thyme, leaves only; 100-120 g mature Lancashire cheese

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Seasonal Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2008

About

This simple snack is delicious, particularly if you use one of the sweet, tasty heritage varieties or a large juicy beefsteak tomato, though any flavourful tomatoes will do. I’d also recommend a sourdough base and a great cheese, such as the one produced by the Kirkhams in Lancashire.

Ingredients

4 large ripe tomatoes
1 tablespoon rapeseed oil, plus extra to drizzle
1 garlic clove

Europe
United Kingdom
Snack
Summer
Vegetarian
August

Method

Cut about 6 slices from the centre of each tomato, around ½ cm thick, and put to one side.

Chop up the rest of the tomatoes and place in a saucepan with the rapeseed oil, garlic and thyme leaves. Season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring, over a low heat for 2-3 minutes until the tomat