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13 Cherry Tomato Recipes That Are Bursting With Goodness

From pasta to dip, this collection of recipes has a place for every single cherry tomato in your garden.

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The Serious Eats Team

Updated June 14, 2024

Marinated mozzarella, cherry tomato, and basil salad inside a dish — Serious Eats / Diana Chistruga

If you have an abundance of cherry tomatoes, consider yourself lucky. This collection of recipes is bursting with flavor, just like those jewel-like tomatoes from your garden or farmers market. Whether you have 15 minutes or an hour, there's a cherry tomato recipe on this list to fit the occasion.

Creamy Bean Dip With Roasted Tomato Puttanesca Salad
Serious Eats / Sasha Marx
This creamy white bean spread with a bright puttanesca-inspired topping is the perfect snacking appetizer—no sharing required.
Creamy Bean Dip with Roasted Tomato Puttanesca Salad
Creamy Corn Dip With Feta, Mint, and Tomatoes
Serious Eats / Lorena Masso
Rich and satisfying, this hot corn dip relies on cream cheese, feta, and half-and-half for its luxuriously creamy texture and a topping of mint, olives, and cherry tomatoes for freshness.
Creamy Corn Dip With Feta, Mint, and Tomatoes
Tomato Raisins (Oven-Dried Whole Cherry Tomatoes)
Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik
This recipe for dehydrated cherry tomatoes yields jammy, plump, and concentrated tomatoes that are like sweet-savory tomato raisins.
Tomato Raisins (Oven-Dried Whole Cherry Tomatoes)
Pasta With Burst Cherry Tomatoes and XO Sauce
Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik
Here, sweet and bright cherry tomatoes quickly cook down and burst into a rich, emulsified fresh tomato sauce, thanks to their natural pectin content.
Pasta With Burst Cherry Tomatoes and XO Sauce
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Marinated Mozzarella, Cherry Tomato, and Basil Salad
Serious Eats / Diana Chistruga
This recipe is a flavorful rendition of a classic (but sometimes bland) dish.
Marinated Mozzarella, Cherry Tomato, and Basil Salad
Pizza With Cherry Tomatoes, Halloumi, Olives, and Mint
Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt
Topping pizza with halloumi is unconventional, but undeniably delicious.
Pizza With Cherry Tomatoes, Halloumi, Olives, and Mint
Seared Skirt Steak With Blistered Cherry Tomatoes and Polenta
Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt
Pan-seared steak doesn't really provide much sauce of its own. The solution: Toss some juicy cherry tomatoes and chiles into the skillet as the steak finishes cooking.
Seared Skirt Steak With Blistered Cherry Tomatoes and Polenta
Zucchini and Roasted Tomatoes With Pasta and Dried Olive Flavor Shake
Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt
Deeply flavored zucchini and roasted tomatoes are the star of this dish; pasta just plays a supporting role.
Zucchini and Roasted Tomatoes With Pasta and Dried Olive Flavor Shake
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Fast and Easy Pasta With Blistered Cherry Tomato Sauce
Serious Eats
With just a handful of ingredients, you can make a delicious fresh tomato sauce for pasta in 10 minutes flat.
Fast and Easy Pasta With Blistered Cherry Tomato Sauce
Grilled Lemon-Garlic Chicken and Tomato Kebabs With Basil Chimichurri
Serious Eats / Emily and Matthew Clifton
These chicken skewers spend just a few minutes in a lemony, garlicky mix before they're grilled. The hot chicken absorbs the flavor of the fresh basil chimichurri, and the grilled cherry tomatoes bring sweetness and acid.
Grilled Lemon Garlic Chicken and Tomato Kebabs With Basil Chimichurri
Parisian Gnocchi With Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, Corn, and Zucchini
Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt
Light and airy Parisian-style gnocchi are crisped in olive oil and served with oven-roasted cherry tomatoes, zucchini, and sweet corn.
Parisian Gnocchi With Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, Corn, and Zucchini
El Gallito (Pineapple-Chipotle Pitcher Cocktail)
Serious Eats / Kelly Puleio.
This rare treasure, an umami-rich sweet-salty-smoky chipotle number from balances juicy pineapple with grassy, green cilantro. A handful of cherry tomatoes tamps down the fruity flavor without pushing the drink into full-on Bloody Mary territory.
El Gallito (Pineapple Chipotle Pitcher Cocktail)
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Eggplant, Squash, and Cherry Tomato Hash With Baked Eggs
Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt
This dish is somewhere between a stew-like ratatouille and a chopped vegetable hash with eggplants, zucchini, and cherry tomatoes. With a generous amount of olive oil, it's not light breakfast fare, but it is delicious.
Eggplant, Squash, and Cherry Tomato Hash With Baked Eggs

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