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Found this gem in a 1978 ladies’ auxiliary cookbook from an old neighbor. Every time I serve it for late summer suppers, the plate is wiped clean.

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There is something mighty satisfying about a simple skillet supper that lets garden tomatoes do the talking, and this old-fashioned 5-ingredient tomato dish is just the sort of recipe that earned its place in church and auxiliary cookbooks across the Midwest. It takes only a handful of pantry staples, yet it cooks down into a rich, homey skillet of blistered tomatoes and savory sauce that tastes like late August in the country, when the vines are heavy and nobody wants to waste a single ripe one.

Serve these skillet tomatoes alongside fried chicken, pork chops, meatloaf, or a slice of ham, and be sure to have plenty of bread, biscuits, or buttered toast nearby for sopping up the sauce. They also sit nicely next to mashed potatoes, rice, or buttered egg noodles, and for a light supper you can spoon them over cottage cheese or pile them onto toasted country bread.

Skillet 5-Ingredient Tomatoes

Servings: 4

Blistered tomatoes in savory sauce in a cast iron skillet
Blistered tomatoes in savory sauce in a cast iron skillet

Ingredients

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