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Best Summer Cherry Tomato Salad

Last updated May 10, 2021. Originally posted May 10, 2021 By Jyothi Rajesh 29 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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  • 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
5 from 25 votes

Best Summer Cherry Tomato Salad

Jyothi Rajesh
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!
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Prep Time 10 mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings
Calories 147

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.

Video

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: 147kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 3gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 28mgPotassium: 556mgFiber: 2gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 1210IUVitamin C: 56mgCalcium: 32mgIron: 2mg
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  1. Pam says

    August 27, 2022 at 3:47 am

    5 stars
    Wonderfully easy, very tasty! Wish you had more reviews as you deserve thousands of 5 stars 🌟 🤩

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      August 29, 2022 at 9:41 am

      You are so kind. Thank you very much Pam! I’m so glad you loved this salad!

      Reply
  2. Nick says

    July 14, 2022 at 5:31 am

    5 stars
    So good! If you can, during the summer, grow your own cherry tomatoes. Added a little feta, and accidentally added the red pepper, and that added a nice kick 🙂

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      July 21, 2022 at 2:34 pm

      I’m so glad you loved the recipe

      Reply
  3. Barbara says

    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 says

      September 06, 2021 at 11:54 am

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

      Reply
  4. Joyce G says

    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 says

      August 19, 2021 at 11:09 pm

      So glad you loved the salad! Thank you!

      Reply
  5. Morrisa says

    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 says

      June 18, 2021 at 9:43 am

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

      Reply
  6. Bev says

    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 says

      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
  7. Marie says

    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 says

      August 21, 2020 at 9:45 am

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

      Reply
  8. Ginny McMeans says

    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 says

      June 09, 2020 at 7:20 am

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

      Reply
  9. Daniela Gerson says

    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 says

      June 09, 2020 at 7:19 am

      Glad you liked it

      Reply
  10. Marwin Brown says

    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 says

      June 08, 2020 at 9:58 am

      Glad you liked it

      Reply
      • Jamie says

        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 says

        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!

  11. Heidy M` says

    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
  12. Paige says

    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
  13. Tatiana says

    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
  14. Amanda says

    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
  15. Dana says

    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
  16. Ben says

    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
  17. Monica says

    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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