This Easy Caprese Tomato Tart calls for just a few ingredients and comes together simply with store-bought puff pastry. It’s a simple meal or appetizer that everyone will love, full of fresh garden tomato goodness.

The CA GROWN Garden is overflowing with tomatoes right now! We planted four different varieties and it’s so fun to watch each of them mature and ripen. Each plant has it’s own different look and timing for when they are ready to pick and ready to consume. Having all those different varieties makes it easy to make tremendous dishes during the summer too!

Tomato season is everything.

I concocted this beautiful summer tomato tart with the smaller variety tomatoes and fresh basil from the garden. I can’t tell you how awesome it feels to walk out to the garden and pick the bounty right from the vine, walk in the house and use it right then and there!  

I’m known to sample right off the vine to check for readiness and then end up eating the whole harvest before they make it into the house! Thankfully, we are experiencing a heat wave and the tomatoes are ripening like squash. We have plenty to go around…and use in this cheesy tart.

How does this caprese tart taste?

Loaded with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil, this tart includes all the ingredients of a caprese salad. We top it all off with a healthy drizzle of balsamic glaze for good measure.  

The puff pastry has a sweet, croissant-like texture and taste, so this could easily double as an after dinner treat too. 

Let’s get this party started…

Making your Caprese Tomato Tart, step-by-step:

Prepare the puff pastry (usually found in the frozen section) by thawing and forming into a rectangle. Sprinkle with pepper.

Add the fresh mozzarella and a few basil leaves.

Add the halved tomatoes, cut side up, and dust with a bit more pepper.

Using a fork, gently pierce around the entire tart about a half inch from the edge. Bake for about 20 minutes and until golden!

Drizzle with the balsamic glaze and voila! Perfection! It’s a Garden Tomato Tart!

Now, if you didn’t plant your own tomatoes this year, fear not! California tomatoes are just starting to come into the stores and of course, the Farmer’s Markets, so you can make this tart over the next few months with them. Yay!

Dive in! You’ll love this fresh tomato tart, and so will everyone else.

Easy Caprese Tomato Tart

Susan the CA Grown Mom

This Easy Caprese Tomato Tart calls for just a few ingredients and comes together simply with store-bought puff pastry. It's a simple meal or appetizer that everyone will love, full of fresh garden tomato goodness.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, dinner, Lunch, Main Course

Cuisine American

Servings 6 servings

Calories 349 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 puff pastry sheet
• 8 ounces fresh mozzarella sliced thick
• 20-30 small tomatoes halved or sliced – I used yellow pear and red cherry
• 10-20 fresh basil leaves
• Balsamic glaze
• Salt & Pepper

Instructions

 

• Defrost the puff pastry sheet according to the package.

  Cut the dough in half to form two rectangles (about 10 inches x 5 inches). Take one of the rectangles and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. (Reserve the other for future use, or double this recipe.)
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
• Dust the dough with salt and pepper. Add 6 slices of fresh mozzarella to the dough. Add approximately 10 smaller basil leaves and the sliced tomatoes.
• Pierce about a half inch from the entire edge of the dough with a fork and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
• Allow to cool for about 10 minutes.

Notes

Serve warm or room temp. 

Nutrition

Calories: 349kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 12gFat: 24gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 30mgSodium: 342mgPotassium: 190mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 763IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 202mgIron: 1mg

Keyword caprese, Cherry Tomatoes

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