Creamy, peppered whipped ricotta is slathered on slices of toasted crostini and topped with jammy roasted cherry tomatoes to make a easy appetizer or simple breakfast or lunch.

Take into consideration these whipped ricotta crostini a toast to my journey to Venice, Italy, the place we spent virtually every afternoon wedged into small wine bar cafés to leisure, sip, and nosh on cicchetti, Italy’s mannequin of Spanish tapas. There, cicchetti crostini toasts can be found in as many kinds of toppings as there are gondoliers chopping by way of the canals. As we converse I’m holding points simple, starting with toasted slices of French bread rubbed with garlic for that acquainted bruschetta chunk. Subsequent, ricotta cheese is whipped with salty Parmesan cheese, kosher salt, and freshly ground black pepper for barely heat. Roasted tomatoes are the cherry on this appetizer sundae, delivering bursts of sweetness with sprinkles of thyme sending throughout the herbed earthy notes.

What’s In Whipped Ricotta Toast Crostini with Roasted Tomatoes

• Ricotta cheese — choose full-fat or low-fat, merely be sure that it’s fine quality
• Parmesan cheese — freshly grated always tastes best. Skip the kind throughout the inexperienced can.
• Sliced French bread, sourdough, or baguette — if serving as an appetizer choose a smaller-diameter loaf of bread
• Garlic clove
• Cherry tomatoes — when in season I always choose these from my yard. In every other case, I seek for one thing on the vine or these marketed as super sweet
• Additional virgin olive oil
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• Latest thyme leaves

How one can Make Whipped Ricotta

Whip the ricotta in a meals processor until simple. Since it’s a small batch, I make the most of my hand blender processor attachment to whisk the ricotta and grated Parmesan cheese simple. Must you don’t have one, a every day meals processor works successfully, or use {an electrical} hand mixer.

Style the ricotta cheese with additional pepper for additional chunk. As always, add additional seasoning to meet your model.

Roast Cherry Tomatoes

From my simple Roasted Tomato Sauce to this Burrata with Roasted Tomatoes Caprese Salad, roasting is my favorite methodology for getting that extra-sweet summertime style from jammy tomatoes it does not matter what time of 12 months. Get the whole meal deal on making roasted tomatoes proper right here.

Drizzle with oil, season with freshly ground black pepper and kosher salt, and roast the tomatoes at 425°F for 10 minutes. Cook dinner dinner merely until the skins begin to shrivel and the tomatoes start to pop so that they’re mild and jammy nevertheless retain their kind.

Make clean-up easy. I roast my tomatoes on a foil-lined baking sheet throughout the toaster oven.

Toast the Crostini

Toast the bread on a baking sheet. I like this system becaues it makes one side extra crispy nevertheless the totally different side not pretty as rather a lot. That method my mouth isn’t raw after I eat.

Rub the toasts with latest garlic. There’s rather a lot style on this step! Take a complete clove of garlic and rub on the crisped side the place it acts like a grater for the garlic.

How one can Assemble Whipped Ricotta Crostini

• Slather the garlic-rubbed toasts with whipped ricotta
• Prime the ricotta with a pile of roasted tomato
• Sprinkle with latest thyme leaves
• Season with additional freshly ground black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil

Additions or Substitutions

• Use one different form of bread corresponding to sourdough or ciabatta
• Instead of thyme, excessive with latest basil, mint, tarragon, marjoram, or chopped latest chives
• Add a contact of sweetness with a drizzle of balsamic glaze, thinned jam, or honey. Or try scorching honey for barely extra one factor.

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