Cherry tomatoes are an apparent go-to ingredient for summertime meals, particularly when you’ve acquired a prolific plant in your backyard. However as Ann Taylor Pittman factors out in her recipe for Heat Puttanesca Pasta Salad, these little taste bombs are reliably scrumptious all yr spherical, in order that they’re a superb alternative throughout these months of the yr when full-size tomatoes are lackluster. Plus, since they’re already bite-sized, they usually do not require any chopping to be recipe-ready. And whereas cherry tomatoes are definitely scrumptious in every kind of uncooked purposes, cooking them is a surefire option to focus their flavors for a next-level dish. Throw them on the grill for a rooster Caprese salad, burst them in a pan on the range for a ragout to high polenta, or roast them within the oven for weeknight favorites like our straightforward sheet pan salmon. Have a good time the flexibility of candy cherry tomatoes all yr with this roundup of tasty recipes.
Grilled Rooster Caprese Salad with Basil Oil
A combo of grilled cherry tomatoes on the vine and quick-pickled yellow grape tomatoes provides double tomato taste to this iconic most important course summer season salad.
Spaghetti with Cherry Tomatoes Melted in Garlic Butter
Cherry tomatoes are an excellent shortcut to a scrumptious sauce for pasta, particularly in the summertime once they’re considerable. Naturally candy, they don’t take lengthy to blister and burst, and their juices create a luscious sauce when blended with somewhat little bit of garlicky butter and pasta water.
Raspberry, Orange, and Tomato Salad with Honey-Mirin French dressing
Virtually too fairly to eat, this subtle salad pairs tart raspberries, juicy mandarin orange slices, each purple and yellow cherry tomatoes, and peppery, crunchy radishes with a tangy mirin French dressing that will get an umami enhance from fish sauce.
Charred Corn and Tomato Tartines with Tofu Aïoli
Enhanced by smoked paprika, our eggless, tofu-based aïoli has the assertive garlic taste and creamy texture you anticipate from the condiment. Right here, it’s generously slathered on rustic sourdough slices piled excessive with grilled corn, peppers, and cherry tomatoes.
Creamy Polenta with Burst Cherry Tomato–and–Purple Wine Ragout
2018 F&W Finest New Chef Julia Sullivan’s savory tomato ragout is a contemporary basic, popping with shiny shade and taste. It is made with a multi-hued mixture of cherry tomatoes laced with ribbons of hearty greens. Garlic and basil punch up the scrumptious issue.
Sheet-Pan Salmon with Gin-Soaked Tomatoes
For this hands-off dinner, salmon fillets are baked slowly for meltingly tender outcomes. Tender roasted cherry tomatoes and shallots mingle fantastically with the botanical notes of gin and briny capers.
Inexperienced Bean, Butter Bean, and Tomato Salad
This enjoyable play on a basic summer season three bean salad combines inexperienced beans and butter beans with cherry tomatoes and olives, merely wearing rice vinegar and olive oil and served over a layer of flavor-packed romesco sauce.
Pan-Roasted Rooster Thighs with Lemon and Cherry Tomatoes
Tender cherry tomatoes present pops of sweetness when baked with bone-in, skin-on rooster thighs, lemon slices, and garlic.
Spicy Sausage Pasta with Tomatoes and Squash
Right here, tender orecchiette cooks with cherry tomatoes, spicy sausage, harissa, and dry white wine till a creamy sauce types and coats the pasta.
Heat Puttanesca Pasta Salad
Ann Taylor Pittman’s vibrant pasta salad consists of crispy prosciutto, aromatic herbs, anchovies, and punches of garlic, however cherry tomatoes are the actual star of the dish. She seasons them, then makes use of their juices to coat just-cooked casarecce earlier than tossing it with the remaining substances.
Ouzo Snapper with Fennel and Tomatoes
Gentle entire snapper is rubbed with licorice-scented ouzo and roasted over a mattress of cherry tomatoes, fennel, and candy onions on this easy but satisfying recipe. The produce additionally will get a splash of ouzo earlier than roasting, for a candy and barely acidic complement to the flaky fish.
Burst Cherry Tomatoes and Pancetta
This dish from 2018 F&W Finest New Chef Michael Gallina is an easy sauté with candy acidity from tomatoes, savoriness from pancetta, and aromatics from garlic and onion. It is a divine topping for ricotta toast and simply as scrumptious tossed with pasta.
Buffalo Mozzarella with Neat and Messy Roasted Tomatoes
Cookbook writer Rachel Roddy serves tomatoes roasted two methods, first at 300°F after which at 350°F, for a spread of scrumptious tomato taste in addition to a wonderful presentation paired with wealthy buffalo mozzarella.
Za’atar Baked Eggs
On this go-to breakfast and brunch dish from High Chef decide Gail Simmons, eggs are baked in a cherry tomato–pepper combine seasoned with the Mediterranean spice mix za’atar, then served with a cucumber yogurt sauce.
Fregola with Charred Onions and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Chef Jeff Banker roasts cherry tomatoes within the oven to accentuate their sweetness on this summer season salad with chewy, bead-shaped fregola pasta.
Tomato Pie Bars
Josh Miller’s tackle tomato pie begins with crushed saltine crackers and Parmesan cheese to provide these bars a crispy crust. The wealthy, savory filling is enhanced with mildly spicy curry powder and chipotle chile. A topping of juicy tomato slices brings the completed bars into good stability.
Halibut in Parchment with Corn and Tomatoes
High Chef winner and host Kristen Kish retains it easy by roasting halibut, corn, tomatoes, and inexperienced beans all in a single packet, permitting the flavors to merge into one recent, gentle, and scrumptious summer season meal.
Squid with Burst Cherry Tomatoes
Chef Tom Colicchio cooks cherry tomatoes low and gradual for extravagant juiciness and amped-up taste.