Ultimate Fresh Tomato Recipes – Southern Bite

This cool, crisp, and tangy Tomato, Cucumber, and Onion Salad is quick, easy, and was a summer staple at our house. You can follow my recipe to a tee or make it your own! There’s lots of room for improvisation with this side dish.

This Southern Tomato Gravy recipe is a tangy, savory topping and a breakfast staple. It’s perfect over biscuits, eggs, and even shrimp and grits. And, you can use either fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes.

This Shortcut Tomato Focaccia uses a can of refrigerated pizza dough to create a quick and easy bread recipe that’s just as delicious as it is beautiful! This is a great recipe for those fresh cherry tomatoes!

The classic flavors of a Southern tomato sandwich combine in this quick Tomato Cracker Salad. It’s the perfect side dish for summer with refreshing and simple ingredients!

There’s something about the smooth and creamy pimento cheese and the tangy acidity of the tomato that pairs perfectly. You get that perfect pairing in my Tomato and Pimento Cheese Fritters. The crisp cornbread exterior is fried to golden perfection and the inside is filled with creamy, melty pimento cheese, sweet onions, garlic, and tangy tomatoes. Yum!

Got a hankering for some green tomatoes? Check out this recipe! The best parts of fried okra and fried green tomatoes combine in this delicious, yet easy, recipe for Okra and Green Tomato Fritters.

The name of this recipe alone makes my mouth water! This thick and rich tomato cobbler is flavored simply with onions and garlic but then it’s topped with super easy pimento cheese drop biscuits.

Here is the ultimate fresh tomato recipe! This delicious tomato pie is a real favorite at our house.  The fresh basil really put it over the top, but the dried basil works just as well if you don’t have fresh.  Y’all enjoy!

I can pretty much eat this recipe as a meal. It’s so filling! This Zucchini and Tomato bake is simple, easy, and delicious and just tastes like summer to me.  If you prefer, you can use yellow summer squash in place of the zucchini, but you’ll lose some of that pretty color.  Y’all enjoy!

Featuring those delicious grape or cherry tomatoes, Taco Pasta Salad is a light, adaptable, and delicious salad that is bursting with incredible flavors and surprisingly easy to make.You can tailor it to your liking and create your own signature version. Yum!

Enjoy my quick and easy Okra and Tomatoes recipe! This recipe comes straight from my cookbook and is the perfect side dish during your tomato harvest season. Or, if you don’t have enough fresh tomatoes you could add in canned tomatoes too!

If you need a fun and impressive dish to take to the next family gathering or potluck that’s also super easy, this Cornbread Salad is it! It’s a layered salad with cubed cornbread, corn, beans, peppers, onion, tomato, cheese, and ranch dressing!

This is the classic Southern recipe for perfect Fried Green Tomatoes! With cornmeal and some hot grease, you’ll turn green tomatoes into a delicious bite. They are super easy to make at home when you follow my simple instructions.

Grab a bag of tortilla chips, and try this refreshing Pickle de Gallo. Featuring fresh veggies, like tomatoes, onion, bell peppers, lots of yummy dill pickles, and more, the end result is a fresh, tangy, pickley pico de gallo!

This Summer Succotash is the perfect recipe to take advantage of with your summer vegetable bounty. Salty bacon, sweet corn, lima beans, okra, and tart tomatoes combine in a dish that tastes as good as it looks! I’ve included the measurements for frozen vegetables as well, so you can enjoy this dish all year round!

This simple and easy recipe for Pesto Pasta Salad combines orzo pasta with basil pesto, feta cheese, onions, olives, artichokes, and tomatoes for a cool summer side that’s perfect for your next BBQ.

This quick Easy Corn Salad recipe uses frozen corn as a shortcut to deliver delicious corn salad flavor in a fraction of the time. Corn, green chilies, green onions, tomatoes, and a creamy, tangy dressing combine to create this summer BBQ favorite!

This delicious Kitchen Sink Pasta Salad is filled with bowtie pasta, tomatoes, bell peppers, olive, artichokes, parmesan cheese, a light and tangy vinaigrette, and delicious polish sausage. This recipe could be a meal all in itself!

Got some grape tomatoes you need to use up? Check out my Sweet Corn Salad with Bacon recipe! This recipe combines the sweetness of fresh corn with the smokiness of bacon. Throw in some red onion, tomatoes, basil, and a creamy dressing made with mayo, lemon juice, and just a little bacon fat, and you’ve got a bright and colorful side dish that’s perfect for your next summer bbq, gathering, or potluck.

Proclaimed “one of the best fried green tomatoes” by Guy Fieri, host of Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games, this fried green tomato recipe includes a few whammy ingredients that make them quirky but crazy delicious!