Miriel Enfield

My father is having some very serious health issues, and has been told to eat more cooked tomatoes. However, he hates tomatoes and feeding him is a bit like feeding a picky five-year-old.

Does anyone have a reasonably healthy dish with tomatoes, but that doesn't actually taste very tomato-y?

Redhead

This sounds like a great excuse to eat Pizza. Lots and lots of pizza.

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Ixnay on the "reasonably healthy" part for most pizzas.

Richie Waves

I'm not particularly fond of Tomatoes but I cant get enough Bruschetta salsa!

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Aodhan McDunnough

I like tomatoes fresh and chopped or sliced, stewed, sun-dried, as tomato soup, or tomato juice.

I totally hate them sauteed, and I barely tolerate them in tomato sauce or as ketchup.


Try sun-dried tomatoes for your dad. Those are really yummy.

Sela

maybe get a juicer and mix them with some fruit for a juice blend.

Miriel Enfield

That's actually one of the things I was thinking of. I found a whole wheat pizza crust recipe, and if we dialed back on the cheese and maybe added some veggies on top, it'd probably fit pretty well into his required diet.

Essence Lumin

This may or may not be useful but I love cooked tomatoes. Raw tomatoes yuck. They are very different tastes.

Siyu Suen

I was stewing over (tehe) tomatoey things and I remembered a couple of good ones.

Minestrone! There have to be a million and a half recipes for good ones out there, and if you chop the tomatoes finely it'll just be another lumpy thing in the soup. You can also use tomato juice or sauce.



Tomato bread... this may sound weird but it's actually amazing. I had some at this mom & pop gourmet restaurant in the middle of nowhere with chive and onion butter and it was a completely different bready experience. You can make it by adding either tomato juice in part substitution to water or by roasting fresh tomatoes and dicing them. Here are a couple of pretty complicated ones, I couldn't find a more minimalist one

Tomato Bread | Bread Recipes
basil-tomato-bread recipe from FatFree

I imagine you could definitely play with that though, especially if you have a bread machine!

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Syan Loring

Not sure if this would be considered too tomato-y or not, but I make a super easy shrimp bisque that uses a jar of marinara.

Saute a chopped red bell pepper and a half a chopped onion. Add one jar marinara and one jar of alfredo sauce. Thin down to whatever consistency you like your soup with some chicken stock. Warm it all up. Then add thawed pre-cooked pre-cleaned shrimp a couple of minutes before you're ready to serve to warm up the shrimp.

To me it's not tomato overload because the creaminess of the alfredo sauce dilutes it.

Winter Ventura

Spaghetti is a definite plus, in fact most italian dishes like lasagna shoudln't be overlooked. Hell, even Ketchup is a decent source of Lycopene.

Moving on from that.. Cooked Tomatoes have a rather strong flavour, so while it's impossible to "hide" them.. you can stick to dishes he likes. There are of course several variations on meatloaf that can involve tomatoes and tomato sauce.

Sun Dried tomatoes can have an almost spicy element to them, and are a wonderful addition to a bagle with cream cheese (actually take that a bit further with avacado, cucumber, maybe a little turkey, and you've got an amazing sandwich.

You'd be better off looking at other vegetables with similar chemical properties. (bell peppers, for example). You can do a lot of things with stir-frying that can take some of the edge off the veggies, and make them into fajita fare.

It's really all about preparation and spices.. and if you're literally just heating up stewed tomatoes, I'd have to agree that that would suck.

Especially when you could be having Chicken breast with melted mozerella cheese and tomato sauce, with some pasta.

Oh and by the way.. they do make pills of that chemical. You can get them at any health food store....

meanwhile:
A mixed salad once in a while wouldn't hurt anyone.

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Rose Alba Karuna

I am not fond of tomatoes myself but I do use them in many recipies.

One of my favorites is Pesto Boboli

First, I dehydrate a lot of tomatoes and then put them in a jar with olive oil. Dehydration makes them sweeter and the olive oil kills a lot of the "tomato type taste". I always have some on hand because they keep forever. You can buy dehydrated tomatoes off the grocery shelf too.

Second - I generally make my own Pesto sauce but you can find it pre-made on the grocery shelf.

One good recipe that I have is dried tomatoes on Boboli bread.

1 large Boboli bread
1/2 cup pine nuts
1/2 cup dryed tomatoes
1/2 cup pesto
1/2 cup grated parmasan or romano cheese

Bake bread at 350 degrees until bread is warmed through and cheese has melted. (About 15-20 minutes)

Pesto

1/2 cup pine nuts
1/2 cup of olive oil
2 cups fresh basil leaves
3 cloves of fresh garlic
1/2 cup of parmesan cheese

Blend all the above ingredients together in a blender. Pesto keeps forever too.

Another recipe that I enjoy that uses tomatoes is Pasta with Creamy Tomato Alfredo Sauce

Creamy Tomato Alfredo Sauce

1/2 cup butter
2 cloves of garlic (minced)
2 cups fat free half and half
1 cup of cream cheese
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 whole tomatoes - skinned and de-seeded
1 cup slice mushrooms
1 TBLS chopped fresh basil
1 TBLS chopped fresh oregno
1TBLS olive oil

First, boil some hot water and then dip the tomatoes into the hot water for about 20 seconds and then remove them from the water. This helps the skin peel off the tomatoes very easily. After the tomatoes are skinned and de-seeded,
cut them into small pieces (about 1/4 inchs).

Next, slice the garlic cloves and clean and slice the mushrooms.

Chop the basil and oregno.

Take a saucier pan (high sided frying pan) and heat the olive oil and butter on medium heat. Add the mushrooms and garlic and cook until the mushrooms become flexible. Add the basil and oregno and tomatoes. If you are particularly adventuresome add a 1/2 shot of Vodka or a bit of wine - otherwise add a bit of water or broth to help cook the tomatoes and mushrooms together.

Add the half & half and stir until it becomes heated through. Add the cream cheese - I use a wide wisk and break the cheese throught the half & half. Add the parmesan and stir.

This can be put over any type of pasta.

edited that I forgot to say salt and pepper to taste. For the Alfredo, I love fresh gound pepper in it.

Oh, and for Luc and Bard - sprinkle with Bacon to taste.

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Winter Ventura

I should mention, that if raw tomatoes are an option, there's an old standby.. Tomato Toast.

1 piece of white bread, lightly toasted.
Mayonaise
A couple of slices of tomato
Pepper and salt

Optional:
A slice of Monterey Jack cheese
fresh chopped onion

Eat open-faced. Repeat as desired. Amazingly addictive.

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eku Zhong

i think everyones right about the sundried tomatos
you can actually chop them up and hide them well in things like stews, meatloaf, hamburgers etc

i like to stuff chicken breast with some garlic paste, mozarella and chopped sundried tomatoes... rub the outside of the chicken breast with olive oil and sprinkle coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper.. i then grill them in the oven but you can fry them in a pan also

great to eat like that hot .. or the next day IF you have leftovers... slice the cold chicken up thinly and put in a nice green salad. very tasty and pretty too.

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1 pint glass
Fill half with V8 juice
Fill the other with beer, a good lager beer
Enjoy!

I know it sounds weird and gross, I thought the same thing, then I tried it.
It's great!

Johnnie Carling

detrius

Plant some heirloom tomatoes in your garden next spring, use these and you can feed your father anything.


Edit: Or even better - make your father grow some of those in his garden. He'll be much too proud to not eat them!

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