Cherry tomato tulips with cheese filling

Name: Cherry tomato tulips with cheese filling
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: About 8 pieces
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 5-8 Cherry tomatoes; 125 g Mayonnaise; 50 g Hard cheese; 2 Eggs; 2-3 Garlic cloves; 1 Cucumber; 1-2 bunches Green onions (scallions); 20 g Ground walnuts; to taste Salt

Cherry tomatoes filled with cheese, eggs, garlic, walnuts, and mayonnaise, with green onion stems. Makes about 8 tulip-shaped appetizers.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 35 min
Servings: About 8 pieces
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Slovak

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Cherry tomato tulips with cheese filling are a cold appetizer that stands out on the table. Cut a cross into each tomato, scoop out the inside, and fill with a mixture of mayonnaise or quark (a fresh dairy cheese), finely grated cheese, hard-boiled eggs, garlic, and walnuts. Arrange them on a plate as flowers, using green onions for stems and cucumber slices for leaves. Serve them at a summer party or as an edible decoration for a festive table.

Instructions

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Cut a cross into each cherry tomato, about halfway down, and scoop out the seeds and flesh. In a bowl, mix homemade mayonnaise or quark with the finely grated cheese and two mashed hard-boiled eggs.
Add the pressed garlic and chopped walnuts, and season lightly with salt. Carefully spoon the filling into the tomatoes; it can peek out a little.
Arrange the tomatoes neatly on a plate, using green onions as stems and cucumber slices as leaves.

Tip: Let the hollowed-out tomatoes drain cut-side down for ten minutes so the filling does not become watery. You can also fill them using a bag with a corner snipped off.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 179 kcal
Protein: 4.5 g
Carbohydrates: 4.4 g
of which sugars: 1.6 g
Fat: 16 g
of which saturates: 3.6 g
Fiber: 1.0 g
Salt: 0.7 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Tulipány z cherry paradajok so syrovou nátierkou