15 Tomato Salad Recipes You’ll Want To Make All Summer Long (2024)

This tomato salad can be served as a side or as a meal all on its own. It will delight you on all fronts: It's got leafy greens, juicy tomatoes, blue cheese, candied hazelnuts, and stove-top croutons, tossed in gingery balsamic vinaigrette.

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Don't confuse this colorful salad with guac—there's way more depth of flavor and variety of texture, which makes it one of our favorite summer sides of all time. You're totally welcome to still eat it with tortilla chips (just know it tastes amazing without 'em too).

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Think of burrata salad as caprese salad's fancy cousin. Peak-summer tomatoes are topped with this luscious cheese (think a shell of mozzarella filled with a soft, creamy filling) and garnished with a shower of peppery basil leaves and savory chives. 😍

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Panzanella is one of those recipes that truly tastes like summer. It's one that you want to make in peak season—when the tomatoes are extra juicy, the squash slightly sweet, and the basil extra cheap. To give this classic dish more flavor, we grill the bread, zucchini, and onion until charred, then toss those with the remaining ingredients.

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Caprese salad is one of the best ways to show off those juicy in-season farmer's market tomatoes, or your own backyard harvest. With good quality tomatoes and mozzarella, all you really need is some good olive oil, salt, and freshly cracked pepper. Even the lightest sprinkling of salt on a slice of tomato helps to bring out the sweetness and the natural umami, so don't hold back!

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Known as horiatiki, this traditional Greek salad is made with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, kalamata olives, thinly sliced red onion, and feta. The easy dressing is a mixture of red wine vinegar, fresh lemon juice, dried oregano, and extra-virgin olive oil. Simply said, it's the best.

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This pasta salad is classic, featuring a homemade basil-and-pine nut pesto, a generous amount of Parmesan, and juicy grape tomatoes. It's worth getting out your nicest olive oil for this recipe since the flavor will shine through.

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This stores well in the refrigerator and can be made up to one day in advance. If you're making it the day before your event, save the avocado till right before you head out to keep it extra fresh and green.

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This salad is the epitome of summer in a bowl. We love using orecchiette pasta here to soak up the simple extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing, but you can use whatever pasta shape you like!

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This versatile chickpea salad is a great summer side, but can easily be a full meal on its own! Adding a spoonful of Dijon mustard to your red wine vinaigrette makes it creamier in both taste and body—consider it your secret weapon in making a classic dressing just that much better.

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This Lebanese (or Syrian, depending who you ask 😉) salad is sure to improve whatever it's paired with. Bright, fresh herbs get friendly with sweet tomatoes and a sharp lemon dressing to create the salad equivalent of a breath of fresh air.

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Rather than toast the bread cubes on their own, you'll roast them alongside tomatoes, onion, and garlic for this summer salad. The tomatoes burst as they roast, mixing their juices with the bread and fresh arugula. Oh, and did we mention that the combination of roasted tomatoes, toasted bread coated with Parmesan, fragrant garlic, and mozzarella basically tastes like pizza? 😍

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Corn salad makes the perfect summer dish for picnics, potlucks, or BBQs. Just toss to combine, season to taste, and serve!

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This simple salad is one of our favorite ways to enjoy zucchini noodles, or "zoodles." It takes notes from our favorite caprese salad and celebrates all the best fresh produce of summer, without the carbs!

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Bacon and crunchy croutons make this feel more like a BLT sandwich than a salad—win!

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