blue plates topped with slices of toast and sliced tomato, scattered with green herbs

BBQ tomatoes

Name: BBQ tomatoes
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 2 as a starter
Ingredients: 200g beef bone with marrow, cut lengthways; 2 thick slices of sourdough, grilled; 1 Vesuvian Bull’s Heart tomato, room temperature, thickly sliced; flat-leaf parsley, chopped, to serve; fennel pollen, to serve

Preparation and cooking time
- Total time25 mins
Easy
Serves 2 as a starter

Ingredients

200g beef bone with marrow, cut lengthways
2 thick slices of sourdough, grilled
1 Vesuvian Bull’s Heart tomato, room temperature, thickly sliced
flat-leaf parsley, chopped, to serve
fennel pollen, to serve

Method

STEP 1
Heat the BBQ and allow the flames to die down and the coals to turn white. Season the bone marrow, put it cut-side down on the BBQ for 8-10 minutes, or cut-side up in a 200C/fan 180C/gas 6 oven for 6-15 minutes (depending on thickness) until the marrow is beginning to melt and is crisp and golden on the edges.
STEP 2
Scrape half of the hot marrow on the grilled bread, top with a thick slice of tomato, then with the rest of the marrow. Season with salt, a scattering of parsley and a pinch of pollen.