7 Ways to Use Up Your Garden Tomatoes

There are lots of easy ways to use up extra garden fresh tomatoes, here are 7 creative recipes you will love. 

vine ripe tomatoes and herbs and a blue and white towel

7 Creative Ways to Use Up Garden Tomatoes

Are you overrun with fresh garden tomatoes? Tired of tomato sandwiches, and caprese salad? Today I am sharing 7 ways to use up your garden tomatoes that you will love.

Growing vegetables and creating a garden is hard work! Nurturing your plants and protecting them from disease, deer, rabbits, and whatever else Mother Nature throws at you is a daily occurrence. The past few weeks you have been reaping the rewards of your hard work. You’ve probably enjoyed tomatoes fresh from the vine, made a tomato pie or two, made gaspacho, shared some with friends and family and now you have more than you can handle.

Try a few of these fresh tomatoes recipes, I think you will enjoy them.

Marinated-tomatoes-basil in a jar with a galvanized bucket of tomatoes behind it

1. Marinated cherry tomatoes with fresh herbs.

This recipe is easy to make and a delicious addition to salads, pizzas and charcuterie boards. Make extra to share with your family and friends.

Roasted Green tomato soup in 2 white bowls.

2. Roasted Green Tomato Soup.

Everybody has had a Friday green tomato but have you had green tomato soup? Roasted green tomato soup is unlike any tomato soup that you have ever had and it might just become your new favorite!

Roasted-tomatoes on a pan with a bowl of salt and pepper on the side

3. Pan Roasted Tomatoes and Herbs. 

These pan roasted tomatoes are not only an easy way to put up some of your tomatoes, they are the gift that keeps on giving. Use them to make tomato soup, to add to your chili, to braise meat, as a sauce and whatever else you can think of. I make pans and pans of these tomatoes and freeze them to use all winter long.

a while bowl filled with pasta topped with tomato sauce.

4. Summer Pasta Sauce. 

This quick and easy summer pasta sauce is a family favorite. All you need are a few ingredients and in minutes you have a delicious dinner.

two glass jars filled with cherry tomatoes

5. Pickled cherry tomatoes. 

Perfect for salads, appetizers, charcuterie, sandwiches and more.

tomato zucchini stack salad with a jar of pesto.

6. Grilled zucchini and tomato stack salad with feta cheese. 

This scrumptious salad uses both garden zucchini and tomatoes and is delicious for lunch and dinner!

A wood board with tomato focaccia bread and a plate.

7. Herbed Focaccia Bread.

If it is not too hot in your neck of the woods this herbed focaccia bread is delicious with a salad and charcuterie.

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW

I hope that you found a recipe to make and enjoy with your extra garden tomatoes.

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4 Comments

  1. I’ve not had tomatoes in a while. Steve brought over some cherry tomatoes from the church garden. I miss larger tomatoes sliced up along with fresh cucumbers with a meal!
    Brenda

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