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here on "Love and Best Dishes" with Paula Deen.
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I'm kinda fillin' in for my mom today.
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I've got a really very, very simple recipe
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that I think everybody's gonna like.
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If you like tomatoes, you'll like this recipe.
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And it's just so easy.
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We're gonna start with, I've got a can of plum tomatoes.
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They're peeled and just canned, you know,
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so no big deal there.
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They, they make these, they come in,
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I use these oftentimes for I, well, I'll tell you what.
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I do a really good five-bean chili,
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and I use these in my five-bean chili,
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and they come in sort of bigger cans,
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so you might have to...
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If you want to scale back on this recipe
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with, like, with the number of people
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that you're cooking for,
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you might have to buy two
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and use one and a half cans, or, you know,
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you might have to just play with it a little bit,
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but I don't think that they'll go to waste,
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because they're gonna be so very good,
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and something else that's fun for you
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that are into air-frying out there,
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we're gonna use our air fryer to make these, so here we go.
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I'm just gonna start by putting our tomatoes
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into an oven-safe baking dish
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and try to have enough of 'em that they all sort of touch,
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and don't have a lot of space in the dish.
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And this is a perfect amount.
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Who doesn't like tomatoes?
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Well, don't answer that.
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I know some people don't.
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I've got one of my kids, one of my daughters, just,
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I buy a package of little Roma tomatoes
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and she just eats them like raisins.
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And I don't stop her.
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What's gonna make these tomatoes good?
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and we're gonna use a whole stick of butter.
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So I'm just gonna cut some chunks of butter here
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and just drop 'em in.
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Before I do that, though,
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let me sprinkle a little salt on these tomatoes.
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These will sometimes come in unsalted too.
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You can get low-sodium variety of these tomatoes.
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And I think that these might have been unsalted.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and add some salt to 'em,
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and then I'm just gonna cut some butter
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and drop it right on top.
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This is a very, very simple recipe
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that's gonna be a big hit with your guests
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So if you're doing Italian one night,
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this'll be a great little addition.
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So we want these tomatoes to warm all the way through.
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So before we add our cheese, all right,
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which is gonna be the topper, is Parmesan cheese,
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ooh, one of my favorites,
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we're gonna pop this dish into the air fryer,
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I don't know, for five or ten minutes on about 350
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and just get these tomatoes warmed all the way through
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and get the butter melted and have them nestled
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in that melted butter down in the bottom.
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Then we'll come and add our Parmesan cheese,
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and we'll pop 'em back in the air fryer.
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So quick break right now while I put 'em in.
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Our tomatoes and butter look beautiful.
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The butter's beginning to bubble,
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and it's definitely melted,
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and the tomatoes look good.
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So now we're just gonna add our Parmesan cheese to the top.
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Mm. They smell so good already.
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There are probably a lot of different ways
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you could mix this dish up.
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So if you wanted to add anything to it,
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add some peppers or some onions or some meat, you know.
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I love the idea of getting creative,
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but this recipe is very simple.
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It's just tomatoes, butter, and Parmesan cheese.
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Yeah, what do they say?
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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So maybe don't try to get creative with it.
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So we're gonna turn our oven up full-blast here,
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pop it back in for, I don't know,
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let's check it in about five minutes.
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(air frying whooshing)
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So we'll be right back.
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Our tomatoes are outta the air fryer,
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and they look and smell fantastic.
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Theresa and I were talking about this a little bit
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This would be a great side dish
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if you made yourself a steak and a nice salad at the house,
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These tomatoes would be a perfect side dish.
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They look and smell so good.
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So I'm just gonna take one out here.
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- [Bobby] Mm-hm. So simple.
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Look at that beautiful...
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Oh my gosh. Look at that.
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That beautiful plum tomato.
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I'm just gonna take one and try it.
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Sho' is good. Oh, boy, look at that.
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Hope I don't burn myself right here on camera
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- [Theresa] Be careful.
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- [Theresa] I always like that little surprised look
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It's kind of like, you know it's gonna be good,
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but then you automatically go, wow.
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Better than I expected.
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Even though I love tomatoes.
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- [Theresa] But you could, like, Italian seasoning on that.
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You could put all kinds of things on them.
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- I wouldn't do anything to this.
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I wouldn't change that at all.
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That's a lot of butter, I know.
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But look, the butter is gonna,
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you're not gonna eat all the butter,
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and unless you use a straw and suck it out,
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you're not, you're just not gonna eat all the butter.
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These tomatoes are, oh my gosh, are they wonderful.
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So the trick here was,
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we put the tomatoes into the baking dish
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and put the butter on top,
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and we put it in the air fryer,
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and we let them cook for about 10,
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maybe 15 minutes at 350 until the butter began
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to sort of percolate and boil
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and the tomatoes got nice and warm and soft
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Then we came back, opened it up and added the cheese
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and popped it back in the air fryer for a few minutes,
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and, oh my gosh, what a great side dish.
