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55 ripe and ready recipes to celebrate summer tomatoes

A riot of colour, peak summer tomatoes are bursting with flavour. As Karen Martini advises: "If you can't find ripe, flavoursome tomatoes, leave those supermarket tomatoes that seem impervious to the changing of the seasons untouched. If you have to wait, then wait."

55 recipes
Heirloom tomatoes topped with "cowboy caviar".
EASY

Cowboy caviar salad with heirloom tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Fresh mozzarella salad with tomato dressing.
EASY

Mozzarella treccia with croutons and tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Bundles of joy: Tomato traybake with zucchini cheese parcels.

Zucchini cheese parcels with tomatoes and fresh herbs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Burrata cheese balls with heirloom tomatoes and basil oil.
EASY

Heirloom tomatoes with burrata cheese and basil oil recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Seared scotch fillet with mozzarella, peas and cherry tomatoes.
EASY

Seared scotch fillet with mozzarella, pea and tomato salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Tomato and olive tapenade tart.

Danielle Alvarez's tomato and olive tapenade tart

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Italian chicken with capsicum and summer tomatoes.

Italian chicken with capsicum and summer tomatoes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Tomato trio salad.

Three tomato salad with sunflower seed puree and whipped feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato salad with tzatziki.
EASY

Heirloom tomato salad with tzatziki

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Turmeric, ginger and coconut create a brightly coloured, flavour-packed dressing.

Chickpea and tomato salad with coconut dressing

  • Danielle Alvarez
Tomato and spiced feta tart.

Keep-things-spicy tomato and feta slab tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato spaghetti marinara.
EASY

Adam Liaw's tomato spaghetti marinara

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chilled Spanish tomato soup for summer.

Gazpacho with vegie 'confetti'

  • Neil Perry
Corn fritters with jalapeno butter.
EASY

Corn fritters with jalapeno butter and heirloom tomato salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Chicken parma in salad form, with bonus parmesan crisps.

Chicken parmigiana salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Cherry tomato lasagne with easy bechamel.

Cherry tomato lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli.

Katrina Meynink's Vietnamese tomato salad with poached chicken and crispy vermicelli

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Andrew McConnell's tomato salad with Japanese flavours.

Tomato salad with silken tofu and yuzu kosho

  • Andrew McConnell
Serve this tomato and chickpea curry with flaky roti bread (or croissants!).

Tomato and chickpea curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
This Christmas centrepiece comes together in no time at all.

Adam Liaw's roast ocean trout with summer tomato dressing

  • Adam Liaw
Heirloom caprese salad.
EASY

Heirloom caprese salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pasta with jammy slow-roasted tomatoes and creamy burrata cheese.

Pasta with peppery jammy tomatoes and burrata

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Warm weather-friendly ramen.
EASY

Chilled vegetable ramen for summer

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Three Blue Ducks' heirloom tomato gazpacho soup recipe.
EASY

Heirloom tomato gazpacho recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
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Tomato tarte tatin served with goat's curd and salad leaves.

Karen Martini's tomato tarte tatin with manchego, thyme and dried olives

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Neil Perry's goat's curd tartlets with heirloom tomato salad.

Goat's curd tart with heirloom tomato salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's pan-fried gnocchi with roast tomato sauce.

Pan-fried gnocchi with roast tomato and basil sauce and crispy pancetta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Italy with a detour to Spain: Chicken amatriciana one-tray wonder with chorizo and potatoes.
EASY

Chicken amatriciana traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Karen Martini chops the tomatoes into different sizes for textural variety.
EASY

Karen Martini's tomato salad with buffalo mozzarella, pickled onions and guindilla peppers

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
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EASY

Bruschetta with cherry tomatoes, basil, olives and feta

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Roast chicken for summer.

Herb butter roast chicken with summer vegetables recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rachel Khoo
A simple salad with creamy green goddess dressing.
EASY

Neil Perry's avocado and lettuce salad with green goddess dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Sun-ripened tomatoes are hard to beat, especially if you've grown them yourself.
EASY

Tomato salad with ricotta, dried olives and pinenuts

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Haloumi with basil and tomato

Haloumi with basil and tomato

  • < 30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce.
EASY

Pasta with no-cook puttanesca sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Pasta sciue sciue.
EASY

Pasta sciue sciue

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix

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