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    Home > Salads > Best Summer Cherry Tomato Salad

    Best Summer Cherry Tomato Salad

    Last updated May 10, 2021. Originally posted May 10, 2021 By Jyothi Rajesh 25 Comments

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    summer cherry tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with text overlay
    summer cherry tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with text overlay
    homemade fresh tomato salad in wooden salad bowl with text
    fresh cherry tomato salad in wooden bowl with text
    fresh cherry tomato salad in wooden bowl with text
    fresh tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with text
    fresh tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with text
    fresh tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with text
    summer cherry tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with text overlay

    Fresh tomato salad is simply the best summer salad you’ll ever make! This salad is ideal to be served with anything from the grill! It tastes absolutely delicious after it has been marinated for an hour. Can be served chilled or at room temperature!

    summer cherry tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with pepper mill on side
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    • Why Should You Try Tomato Onion Salad
    • Ingredients Needed
    • How To Cut Tomatoes For Salad?
    • Cherry Tomato Salad Recipe (Step-By-Step Pictorial)
    • Best Summer Cherry Tomato Salad

    Use up the best supply of excellent quality fresh tomatoes from your own garden or from the farmers markets! The recipe for this tomato onion basil salad is uncomplicated!

    All you need to do is simply slice red onions, half or quarter the cherry or grape tomatoes and finely chop fresh basil. Toss everything together with little red wine vinegar, EVOO and salt and pepper.

    Why Should You Try Tomato Onion Salad

    1. Uses fresh summer produce that are available in bountiful. Fresh summer cherry or grape tomatoes either from your own garden patch or from your favorite farmers market.
    2. The recipe is so simple you’ll think you are cheating!
    3. The flavors in the salad are simple but divine! Make sure to use the freshest ingredients for best optimal flavors!
    4. Fresh ripe cherry tomatoes, crunchy red onions, and fresh herbs like basil and mint will make the best side dish alongside any type of grilled meat!

    Ingredients Needed

    All you need for the salad is shown in below pic:

    ingredients for cherry tomato salad recipe

    Tomatoes: Best to use meaty tomatoes like cherry or grape tomatoes. You want to pick tomatoes which have less liquid! If you can’t find cherry tomatoes, ripe roma tomatoes can be used, make sure you cut them into chunks.

    EVOO: Your salad is only as good as your ingredients. Along with fresh cherry tomatoes, you need to make sure you use best quality extra virgin olive oil! Not the cheap ones! EVOO will impart optimal flavors to the salad.

    Red Wine Vinegar: Go for the best quality red wine vinegar you can get! Red wine vinegar stirred into the salad takes the edge of raw onions!

    Herbs: Summer salads are always packed with fresh herbs. Fresh basil leaves are best herb for tomato basil salad. You can include a little bit of fresh mint leaves as well if you like.

    How To Cut Tomatoes For Salad?

    Cherry Tomatoes – Remove the stem and then cut in half from length wise. Depending on their size you can cut tomatoes into halves or cut it into quarters.

    Feel free to mix different colors of tomatoes, red cherry tomatoes, yellow grape tomatoes.

    There is no thumb rule on the size of tomatoes you need to have for tomato salad recipe.  Any size of tomatoes will work.

    Other Tomatoes – If using large tomatoes like roma tomatoes score the tomatoes and cut into half lengthwise. Cut each half into 8 lengthwise pieces. Cut each of those into halves.

    Cherry Tomato Salad Recipe (Step-By-Step Pictorial)

    Chop cherry tomatoes into halves.

    chopping tomatoes into halves

    Slice red onions.

    thinly sliced red onions

    Place chopped tomatoes, sliced red onions in a salad mixing bowl.

    Drizzle with olive oil and red wine vinegar.

    Season with crushed peppers and salt to taste.

    Sprinkle fresh chopped basil leaves (I used a mix of mint and fresh basil leaves).

    adding all ingredients into salad mixing bowl

    Gently toss everything together.

    toss salad in bowl

    Let the salad sit at room temperature for about an hour before serving.

    Serve the salad with grilled chicken or any grilled meat.

    TRY OUR OTHER FAVORITE SUMMER TOMATO RECIPES:

    Garden Fresh Tomato Bruschetta

    Roasted Tomato Basil Salad

    Easy Tomato Rice

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    summer cherry tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl
    summer cherry tomato salad served in wooden salad bowl with pepper mill on side

    Best Summer Cherry Tomato Salad

    This fresh tomato salad is simply the best and easiest summer salad you’ll ever make! This salad is ideal to be served with anything from the grill! It tastes absolutely delicious after it has been marinated for an hour. Best served chilled!
    5 from 15 votes
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    Course: Side Dish
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Servings: 4 servings
    Calories: 147kcal
    Author: Jyothi Rajesh

    Ingredients

    • 2 pints fresh cherry tomatoes halved
    • 1 red onion thinly sliced
    • 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar good quality
    • 3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
    • 2 tablespoon fresh basil chopped fine
    • Salt and pepper to taste

    Instructions

    • Place chopped tomatoes, sliced red onions in a salad mixing bowl.
    • Drizzle with olive oil and red wine vinegar.
    • Season with crushed peppers and salt to taste.
    • Sprinkle fresh chopped basil leaves.
    • Gently toss everything together.
    • Let the salad sit at room temperature for about an hour before serving.
    • Serve the salad with your favorite grilled meat.

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    Notes

    • You can use a mix of tomatoes, red cherry tomatoes, yellow grape tomatoes.
    • For herbs you any or a mix of – fresh basil leaves, fresh mint leaves, fresh oregano.
    • Note: dried herbs will not do justice to the salad. Use only fresh herbs.
     
    Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 147kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 28mg | Potassium: 556mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 1210IU | Vitamin C: 56mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 2mg
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    Comments

    1. Barbara

      September 05, 2021 at 7:40 pm

      5 stars
      Easy and delicious. I sliced the onions on a mandolin so they would not overpower the tomatoes. Really good.

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        September 06, 2021 at 11:54 am

        Thank you very much Barbara, glad to know you loved the recipe!

        Reply
    2. Joyce G

      August 18, 2021 at 11:56 pm

      5 stars
      This was easy and soooo fresh! I have a container grape tomato plant and this was a perfect way to use some of those gems! Thank you!

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        August 19, 2021 at 11:09 pm

        So glad you loved the salad! Thank you!

        Reply
    3. Morrisa

      June 18, 2021 at 7:49 am

      5 stars
      It was a perfect balance of ingredients. It will work for a great side for brunch, lunch or dinner.

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        June 18, 2021 at 9:43 am

        So glad you are loving the recipe Morrisa! Thank you!

        Reply
    4. Bev

      August 30, 2020 at 3:46 am

      Step 3 says to add crushed peppers and salad? What does that mean, crushed peppers are not in the ingredient list.

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        August 30, 2020 at 9:57 am

        Oops sorry for the confusion, I meant add crushed pepper and *salt to taste. Pepper is mentioned in the ingredient list (it’s the last one – salt and pepper to taste)

        Reply
    5. Marie

      August 21, 2020 at 2:37 am

      Going to make this right now…Can’t wait!! I have a question about the nutritional information. Is that per serving or for the whole salad? I have a question about the nutritional information. Is that per serving or for the whole salad?Thank you!

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        August 21, 2020 at 9:45 am

        Marie – it’s values are for single servings. I served the batch for 4.

        Reply
    6. Ginny McMeans

      June 08, 2020 at 11:55 pm

      5 stars
      This truly was the best tomato summer salad. It was so fresh and clean and fast! Thank you!

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        June 09, 2020 at 7:20 am

        Glad to hear that you liked the salad. It’s our favorite summer salad

        Reply
    7. Daniela Gerson

      June 08, 2020 at 10:39 pm

      Love cherry tomatoes and these pics are awesome!!! Thanks so much for sharing :)! Super inspired to get my cherry tomato game on this summer!

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        June 09, 2020 at 7:19 am

        Glad you liked it

        Reply
    8. Marwin Brown

      June 08, 2020 at 6:16 am

      5 stars
      This looks like a light and tasty salad that is so easy to make. Can’t wait to try!

      Reply
      • Jyothi Rajesh

        June 08, 2020 at 9:58 am

        Glad you liked it

        Reply
        • Jamie

          December 17, 2021 at 1:38 am

          The ingredient Street salt and pepper and then when you put it together it reads crushed pepper and salt is that still black pepper or crushed red pepper?

        • Jyothi Rajesh

          December 17, 2021 at 8:58 am

          Sorry for the confusion. It is black pepper. There is no crushed red pepper used in this recipe. How it’s called with different terms across the world!

    9. Heidy M`

      June 07, 2020 at 10:32 pm

      5 stars
      Your fresh tomato salad was delightful and the flavor was outstanding. One of the things I love about living in a tropical climate is we can enjoy recipes like your fresh tomato salad all year round! This was a keeper and I will be making it again.

      Reply
    10. Paige

      June 06, 2020 at 3:23 am

      5 stars
      One of my favorite summer salads! This version looks great, and I’ll be sure to try it!

      Reply
    11. Tatiana

      June 05, 2020 at 10:28 pm

      5 stars
      I love how easy it is to make this salad! It’s fresh, flavorful, and just perfect for the summer! Great healthy idea for these quarantine days. 😀

      Reply
    12. Amanda

      June 05, 2020 at 9:04 pm

      5 stars
      I just love this salad! It’s so refreshing and quick to make, which is always appreciate during the summer months. This will definitely make a regular appearance throughout the season.

      Reply
    13. Dana

      June 05, 2020 at 7:01 pm

      5 stars
      This is such a great salad to share at potlucks! It’s incredibly easy to make but it’s also so very refreshing.

      Reply
    14. Ben

      June 05, 2020 at 5:15 pm

      5 stars
      I love how light this salad is and how easy it is to make. I can’t wait to try it.

      Reply
    15. Monica

      May 11, 2020 at 12:28 am

      5 stars
      This is so fresh and flavorful, and I love that it actually is better made a little in advance – perfect to prep for a summer BBQ so you don’t have to worry about it right as you’re assembling buns and toppings and everything else!

      Reply

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