Excellent! Just plan to make more while your at it, especially when you have an abundance of cherry or grape tomatoes!
Maple Syrup-Roasted Tomatoes
Maple syrup intensifies the sweetness of tomatoes in this recipe for Tomate Confite au Sirop d'Érable. Serve these with toothpicks as an appetizer or on salads, pizza, and pastas. This recipe first appeared in The Sweet Life, a story about Quebec's second-largest maple syrup-producing region, Bas-St-Laurent.
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Credit: Landon Nordeman
16 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
2 tbsp. maple syrup
2 tbsp. olive oil
3 sprigs fresh thyme, stemmed
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Heat oven to 250°. Arrange tomato halves cut side up on an aluminum foil—lined baking sheet. Whisk together syrup, oil, thyme, garlic, and salt and pepper in a bowl and then drizzle over tomatoes. Bake until tomatoes are half-dried and concentrated, 3–4 hours.
