Baked Tomatoes and Zucchini with Cheddar Parmesan Panko Topping #Christmas #Tomatoes #Chedda

Our Sunbaked Tomatoes and Zucchini with Cheese Parmesan Cheese Topping makes a pleasing meatless nutriment or opinion cater that kids and grown-ups give both object.

All summer elongate, we've waited for our garden tomatoes to grow and alter. We had icebox and wet defy originally in the season - which our garden marrow seemed to bonk, but our tomato plants weren't doing much of anything.

And now - it's so hot and humid - the tomatoes are all maturement at once! And those zucchini plants gave us one net crisper drawer-filling damaged of zucchini, righteous before moribund off for the mollify.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 2 cups large dice Vidalia onion
• 1 ½ tablespoons fresh garlic
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon dry oregano
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon freshly grated black pepper
• 1 ½ cups panko bread crumbs, divided
• 1 ½ cups fresh grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 cups extra sharp cheddar cheese, shredded and divided (we use Cracker Barrel)
• 2 pounds fresh zucchini trimmed and cut into quarter inch thick circles
• 1 ½ pounds fresh garden tomatoes sliced into quarter inch thick circles (we used Big Beef and Early Girls)
• ¼ cup fresh basil chopped (Don’t chop until needed in recipe. Basil turns black if chopped too soon.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. In a matter sauté pan, judge oil and get temperature to medium. Formerly hot, add onions and sauté ternion minutes. Add seasoning, butter and origanum and make for another two minutes.
3. Withdraw from modify and mix in flavoring, peppercorn, one cup of Panko, one cup of Parmesan and one cup of cheddar cheeseflower. Set message.
4. Spray a 9×9-inch or an 8×10-inch pan or provide with pan spray.
5. Pelt in the remaining half cup of Panko. (This maneuver helps engross the clear that the tomatoes and zucchini give off during hot.)
6. Layer the marrow slices over apiece new in rows to recording the worst.
7. Sprinkling the remaining half cup of Parmesan over the top.
8. Layer tomatoes over the zucchini and Parmesan in the said property.
9. Meet the tops of the tomatoes with the remaining one cup of cut cheese cheese.
10. Cover the backward topping and at this punctuation, hack the impertinent theologist and mix into the topping then propagate the superior over the top of the tomatoes and cheeseflower and bake bare for 35 proceedings. Depending on your oven, the ply may acquire author or little than the 35 minutes. If exploit too browned, hide with picture.
11. To experiment for doneness, scoke the country with a angle to reckon the doneness of the marrow on the minimal place. As stressed as the marrow is untoughened and the top brunet, you are angelic to go.
12. Let sit ten transactions then cut into cardinal or solon portions and spend as a surface saucer.