Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Baked feta with tomato
One pan: tomato and oil, feta in the middle, until the cheese slumps. Bread to scoop.
The sheet · 4 as a side · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. One pan: tomato and oil, feta in the middle, until the cheese slumps. Bread to scoop.
What it needs
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- feta
- tomato
- olive oil
- garlic
Method
- A whole block of feta, not crumbles, in the middle of a dish with the tomatoes around it and a great deal of olive oil.
- Hot oven until the tomatoes burst and the feta slumps and takes color at the edges. Thirty minutes.
- Garlic in for the last ten only — a whole half hour turns it bitter.
- Crush and stir it all together while it is hot so the cheese and the tomato juice emulsify. That is the sauce; pasta or bread is the delivery.
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- feta
- Salt and tang in crumbles, so it seasons while it garnishes.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
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