Description
Twelve baguette toasts with lemon ricotta and warm balsamic-roasted red grapes.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups Seedless red grapes, stemmed
- 2 tablespoons Extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Fresh rosemary, finely chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon Fine salt
- 1/8 teaspoon Black pepper
- 12 slices Baguette, sliced about 1/2 inch thick
- 1 cup Whole-milk ricotta, drained if watery
- 1 teaspoon Finely grated lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon Fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400°F. Dry 2 cups stemmed red grapes and toss on a parchment-lined rimmed sheet with 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1 tsp chopped rosemary, 1/8 tsp fine salt and 1/8 tsp pepper. Roast approximately 20–25 minutes, until some skins wrinkle and a few split but grapes remain recognizable.
- While grapes roast, brush 12 half-inch baguette slices with the remaining 1 tbsp olive oil and arrange on a second sheet. Toast in the same 400°F oven for about 8–10 minutes, turning once if necessary, until crisp and lightly golden. Watch both sheets and rotate if the oven browns unevenly.
- Stir 1 cup drained whole-milk ricotta with 1 tsp lemon zest, 1 tsp lemon juice and the remaining 1/8 tsp fine salt until smooth. Let the grapes cool roughly 5 minutes so they are warm rather than scalding hot.
- Spread about 1 heaping tbsp lemon ricotta on each toast, then distribute the roasted grapes and their restrained pan juices over 12 pieces. Serve promptly for a crisp base. Measure leftover grapes or ricotta in the kitchen test and revise the assembly if necessary.
Notes
Recipe-development draft; not kitchen-tested. Timing and yield are estimates. Nutrition has not been calculated.
Additional chilling, resting or cooling time: 5 minutes, included in the total.
Untested estimate: grapes roast up to 25 minutes, bread toasts 8–10 minutes during part of the grape bake, five-minute cooling; oven preheat excluded.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Chilling, resting or cooling: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Appetizers
Nutrition
- Serving Size: One assembled crostino