Cherry Tomato Salad » Dasana Veg Recipe

The easiest summer salad to throw together at home is this awesome cherry tomato salad. This cherry tomato salad recipe is vibrant, tangy, refreshing and oh-so-good! This salad is very healthy and uses plant-based ingredients. So, also vegetarian.

Salad for summer

I make it a point that at home, we eat a lot of salad, especially in the summer. Not only as a quick, filling breakfast, but also as a light meal or full meal for lunch and dinner. Like this sprout salad, which we usually eat as a light dinner.

Why salad? Plus, because they’re so easy to put together, they’re energizing and light on the stomach. Sometimes, you may be late from work. For times like this, salad is the best meal that you can quickly toss and eat to your heart’s content.

At home, I spend most of my time working on salad recipes. You may never know which ingredients pair well with which, resulting in a crunchy, delicious salad. This cherry tomato salad is a favorite of not only me but everyone else in the house.

About the cherry tomato salad

Like other salad recipes, this cherry tomato salad can become your favorite, pretty quickly. These are many reasons why we love this salad.

First, it’s easy and hassle-free to make, with flavors that hit the right spots on your palate

Since this cherry tomato salad doesn’t involve any heat cooking, you’re getting fresh and raw ingredients. It is also gluten-free and vegetarian.

Whether you’re eating Indian, American, European, Middle Eastern or continental cuisine, this cherry tomato recipe fits everywhere as a healthy side dish.

It is light on your stomach, gut-friendly and easy to digest. You can play around with this recipe and make it your own by swapping or adding whatever herbs, spices, spices you like.

The ingredients you need

Here’s a break-up of all the ingredients that make this cherry tomato salad recipe, absolutely a rockstar!

• Cherry tomatoes – You can even use grape tomatoes or small tomatoes.
• today – I used two of my favorite herbs, in dried form – basil and parsley. I’m personally a little partial to basil. Therefore, it has been used. You can add any other dry or fresh herbs of your choice.
• Extra virgin olive oil – I used Evo for that peppery and grassy flavor. If you have any other plain olive oil or neutral flavored oil, add it. But the salad tastes best with olive oil.
• Vinegar – I gave my cherry tomato salad, a sour, acidic flavor ‘mother’ using an organic apple cider vinegar. It is simply the kind that is raw, unrefined and unrefined apple cider vinegar.

  The ‘mother’ here is the gut-friendly bacteria that is actually used when making apple cider vinegar, but is removed in many packaged apple cider vinegars because they give a cloudy appearance. Check it out online or in store, you’ll find it. However, you can use red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar instead.

• Sweetener – A little bit of raw sugar to balance the sourness and make it harmonious in the salad. You can skip adding it or use other substitutes like honey, palm or coconut sugar.
• garlic – I always go for garlic. So use it in this recipe too. It gives a slight tanginess to the salad.

Step by step guide

How to Make Cherry Tomato Salad

Prepare the tomatoes and make the salad dressing

1. Wash 200 grams of cherry tomatoes well. Discard all the water and keep the tomatoes for a few minutes so that they dry naturally.

You can spread the tomatoes on a tray or board to dry. You can even wipe the tomatoes with a clean cotton napkin.

Usually, I wash the tomatoes an hour before and then spread them on a plate. When the water dries up, I cover it with a lid and keep it in a container.

2. Halve the cherry tomatoes that are larger in size and leave the smaller ones intact.

3. In a mixing bowl, take 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar. You can use red wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar or white vinegar instead.

4. Sprinkle with ½ teaspoon dried basil and ½ teaspoon dried parsley. You can even add ½ tablespoon chopped fresh basil and ½ tablespoon chopped fresh parsley.

Add ¼ teaspoon sugar or add as needed and ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper or black pepper powder.

Also season with ¼ teaspoon salt or to taste.

5. Add 1 small peeled garlic clove that has been minced or crushed.

6. Rub quickly so that the spices, herbs, oil, sugar, salt and vinegar are evenly mixed.

Make the cherry tomato salad

7. Add half the cherry tomatoes.

8. Toss and mix so the dressing coats the cherry tomatoes.

9. Serve the cherry tomato salad immediately. Salads, especially tomato salad, are served fresh. If you are unable to do this, refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours and then serve.

However, upon refrigeration, the flavor of the salad changes. When serving, you can even add some grated vegan parmesan cheese.

Expert tips

1. Cherry tomatoes can be substituted with small tomatoes or grape tomatoes. You can also use regular tomatoes, but cut them into small cubes.
2. The amount of herbs can be increased or decreased as per your preference. You can add herbs of your choice.
3. Add spices of your choice. I like black pepper, but you can add white pepper, cayenne pepper, ground cumin, or whatever spices you like.
4. You can skip adding sugar altogether. Use other sweeteners such as coconut sugar, palm sugar and honey instead of regular sugar.
5. Olive oil is essential in this recipe, so don’t swap it for any other oil.

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This cherry tomato salad recipe from the archives, originally published in April 2019, was updated and republished in February 2023.