Is your backyard garden bursting with fruits and veggies? Take advantage of your summer bounty with these easy to make and super flavorful garden-to-table recipes including pasta, salads, sandwiches, and more!
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The summer gardening season is winding down. Despite the pouring rainstorms and excessive heat, we've still managed to have a pretty successful garden this year. We've grown multiple green bean bushes, a large variety of herbs, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, so many different types of peppers, and more!
And now we're shifting into fall gardening season. We'll be growing a second round of some veggies, plus some cold-tolerant plants while harvesting some of the slow growers like our watermelons.
In the meantime, we're still making use of what's growing in our summer garden. We've enjoyed quite a few cucumber salads, thrown lettuce on just about everything (it's now one of my favorite things to grow), and probably ate our weight in zucchini and eggplant. I've even done a bit of canning already, preserving cherry tomatoes and pickling cucumbers as well as some of our peppers.
Easy and Flavorful Summer Garden-to-Table Recipes
When you have a lot growing in the garden, you need to find different ways of incorporating your fruits, veggies, and herbs into dishes. Along with sharing our garden bounty with friends and family, I've been experimenting with different garden-to-table recipes this growing season. If you're looking for new ways to use up your garden goodies, hopefully this collection of recipes will inspire you!
Tomato Recipes
Tomato, Basil, and Lemon Spaghetti
This Tomato, Basil, and Lemon Spaghetti is bursting with fresh, vibrant flavors that are the epitome of summer! It's a simple, but satisfying garden-to-table style dish that's easy enough for a weeknight meal and quick enough to whip up as a light summertime lunch.
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Summery Corn and Tomato Salsa
Seasonal summertime flavors come together in this delicious Summery Corn and Tomato Salsa recipe. It's made with fresh corn kernels, cherry tomatoes, red onion, jalapeño, fresh cilantro, and a lime juice mixture. It's perfect for summer snacking!
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Tomato, Cucumber, and Radish Salad
This Tomato, Cucumber, and Radish Salad is simple and refreshing! It’s made with vine tomatoes, mini cucumbers, radishes, fresh basil, mozzarella, and a drizzle of balsamic glaze.
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How to Make Crushed Tomatoes
Have an overabundance of garden tomatoes? It only takes a few easy steps to make fresh homemade crushed tomatoes with your garden haul!
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Zucchini Recipes
Zucchini Noodle Caprese Salad
This Zucchini Noodle Caprese Salad is a refreshing garden-to-table dish. It's full of flavor and made with spiralized zucchini, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella pearls, fresh herbs, and a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic.
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Summer Zucchini Pasta Salad
This Lemon Pepper Pretzel Crusted Salmon is made with rich and mild Atlantic salmon fillets topped with a bright and peppery, buttery pretzel crust.
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Zucchini and Ricotta Tart with Prosciutto
This Zucchini and Ricotta Tart with Prosciutto is a delicious way to use up garden zucchini. It’s perfect for a summer brunch, lunch, or dinner!
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Zucchini Pizza Boats
These Zucchini Pizza Boats are a low carb way to enjoy all of the flavors of pizza without a lot of the guilt!
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Cucumber Recipes
Lemon, Basil, and Cucumber Pasta Salad
This refreshing Lemon, Basil, and Cucumber Pasta salad is full of bright, summertime flavors. It's made with bowtie pasta, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, onion, fresh mozzarella pearls, fresh basil, and a zesty homemade lemon dressing.
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Crunchy Asian-Inspired Cucumber and Crab Salad
This Crunchy Asian-Inspired Cucumber and Crab Salad is a refreshing summer dish made with thin slices of fresh cucumber, shaved carrots, radishes, avocado, scallions, and crab meat in a soy sauce based dressing.
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Kimchi and Mini Cucumber Salad
This Kimchi and Mini Cucumber Salad is a quick and delicious side dish, or condiment, that’s full of crunch, flavor, and the perfect amount of spice!
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Fresh Cucumber Dill Salsa
Cucumbers, tomato, pepper, onion, and dill come together to create a delicious and tangy Fresh Cucumber Dill Salsa! Serve it with your favorite salsa dippers or spoon it on top of tacos and more!
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Eggplant Recipes
Eggplant and Roasted Red Pepper Wrap
This Eggplant and Roasted Red Pepper Wrap is satisfying and delicious! It's made with a medley of fresh Italian flavors including grilled eggplant, pesto, roasted red peppers, fresh mozzarella, and a drizzle of balsamic glaze.
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Deconstructed Eggplant Parmesan Salad
This Deconstructed Eggplant Parmesan Salad has all the flavors of the classic Italian dish in the form of a light and delicious summer side.
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Loaded Italian Eggplant Sandwich
Your taste buds will say “Mamma Mia!” when you bite into this Loaded Italian Eggplant Sandwich! It’s layered with slices of breaded eggplant, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, roasted red peppers, tomato, and pesto.
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Easy Eggplant Breakfast Hash
This Easy Eggplant Breakfast Hash is a delicious skillet dish and a great way to use up that eggplant that’s been sitting in your fridge!
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Green Bean Recipes
Green Beans with Almonds and Feta Cheese
This easy side dish is perfect for your springtime menu or gatherings! It's made with earthy fresh green beans, fragrant garlic and onion, some zesty lemony brightness, nutty toasted almonds, and creamy feta cheese.
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Leftover Turkey Fried Rice
This Leftover Turkey Fried Rice turns your Thanksgiving leftovers into a quick and delicious weeknight meal. It's made with white rice, a mix of veggies, scrambled eggs, chopped turkey, and a simple soy sauce.
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Easy Chicken with Mixed Veggies Stir Fry
This Easy Chicken with Mixed Veggies Stir Fry is a quick weeknight meal made with fresh broccoli, green beans, and snow peas, and a simple sweet and tangy stir fry sauce!
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Pepper Recipes
Sausage and Banana Pepper Rigatoni with Burrata
This flavorful Sausage and Banana Pepper Rigatoni pasta dish is made with garden sweet banana peppers, cherry tomatoes, and crumbled Italian Sausage in a light and fresh sauce. For a creamy addition, it's finished with burrata for a creamy and satisfying touch.
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Shishito Pepper, Egg, and Potato Breakfast Burritos
These breakfast burritos are freezer-friendly and stuffed with shishito peppers, potatoes, onions, and eggs. Serve them with hot sauce or salsa as a delicious wake up for your taste buds!
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One Pan Chicken, Potato, Pepper, and Mushroom Skillet
This one pan dish is a simple, but hearty skillet meal made with chicken, potatoes, peppers, mushrooms, and flavorful seasonings.
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Grilled Vegetable Buddha Bowl
This flavorful Grilled Vegetable Buddha Bowl is the perfect summertime lunch or light dinner. It's made with bell peppers, onion, mushrooms, squash, and seasonings. Serve it with quinoa, or your favorite grain, and hummus.
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Lettuce Recipes
Hatfield Tuscan Herb Grilled Pork Lettuce Cups
Make any night of the week feel like a date night when you whip up these Hatfield Tuscan Herb Grilled Pork Lettuce Cups together!
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Loaded Bacon Burger Bowl
Grilling season is here and this Loaded Bacon Burger Bowl is a lighter way to enjoy a grilled beef patty with bacon, cheese, and all the best toppings!
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Italian Hoagie Skewers
These Italian Hoagie Skewers are the best of an Italian sandwich on a stick! They’re easy party food made with a delicious combo of meats, cheeses, and all the sub style fixings!
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Antipasto Chopped Salad with Tortellini
This vibrant and flavorful Antipasto Chopped Salad with Tortellini is salty, savory, and cheesy. It's made with a base of crunchy Romaine lettuce, cheesy tortellini, and Italian ingredients like pepperoni, salami, fresh mozzarella, cherry peppers, black olives, onion, and balsamic vinaigrette.
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Herb Recipes
Chickpea, Cucumber, and Herb Salad
This Chickpea, Cucumber, and Herb Chopped Salad is a light, but satisfying summer salad made with fresh ingredients, a simple vinaigrette, and a lot of flavor!
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Fresh Tomato, Cucumber, and Herb Salad
This Fresh Tomato, Cucumber, and Herb Salad is made with a simple combination of garden cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, crumbled feta cheese, and fresh herbs. It’s a light and refreshing summer salad!
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Grilled Corn Salad with Basil and Chives
This Grilled Corn Salad is a sweet and buttery, simple summer salad made on the grill and served with a touch of peppery basil and oniony chives.
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How to Make Herb Salt and Sugar
Make herb salt and sugar with your garden herbs! This easy tutorial will teach you how to dry your herbs and turn them into delicious flavored salt and sugar!
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Make sure to keep following for more garden-to-table recipe inspiration as we enter the fall gardening season. I'm looking forward to making use of what's left of our summer garden. But I also can't wait to enjoy the fall fruits and veggies that are just starting to pop up!
What's your favorite garden-to-table recipe? If you made any of the recipes listed above, share them on social media using the hashtag #holokahome. Don’t forget to tag me @holokahome!
