baked feta appetizer

This baked feta dip recipe is the perfect summer appetizer! This easy dip features creamy feta, burst cherry tomatoes, optional olives and basil. Recipe yields about 4 servings.

Baked Feta Dip with Cherry Tomatoes

block (5 to 8 ounces) feta cheese*

garlic,

(2 cups) cherry tomatoes

Kalamata olives, halved lengthwise and pitted (optional)

extra virgin olive oil

red pepper flakes (optional,

black pepper,

Salt,

basil

For serving: Crostini

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit with a rack in the upper third of the oven. 

Place the feta in the center of a two-quart baking dish. Place the garlic, tomatoes, and optional olives around the feta, in that order. Then drizzle the olive oil all over the mixture. Sprinkle with the red pepper flakes, if using, and several twists of pepper. 

Bake for 20 minutes on the upper third, then place the dish on a heat-safe surface. Gently stir the tomatoes around the feta and tuck the garlic cloves back down to the bottom of the dish.

Return the dish to the oven and bake for 10 to 15 more minutes, until the tomatoes are juicy and shriveling and the feta is turning somewhat golden.

Remove the dish from the oven. Carefully, using a fork, find each of the four garlic cloves and smash each one against the side of the pan. Gently swirl the feta and tomatoes together—not enough to make the dish completely uniform, but to more evenly distribute the ingredients. Taste, and add a pinch salt if desired (the dish is usually plenty salty for me when made with olives, without them you may prefer a bit of additional salt).

Sprinkle all over with fresh basil. Serve warm, with crostini or pita wedges on the side. Leftovers keep well, covered and refrigerated, for up to 4 days. Gently reheat before serving.

Thank you for sharing your delicious recipes! Making a Mediterranean inspired meal for friends on Sunday and plan on using this recipe. Already made your Creamy Hummus today. Hope we don’t eat it all before our guests get here! Ha ha! Good luck with your new arrival and praying for your brother to get through his health issues! Best! Kaaren

Thank you I did do a little research and I did see where feta made with 70% sheeps /goats milk can be mellower then a feta that might be made from cows milk. I did find a feta that said goats milk and was wonderful. 

Kay ( lol lol I did have to go to a couple different grocery stores to find it even in the specialty cheese areas alot of stores dont have it )

We loved the dip, but when we reheated it, the feta didn’t stay creamy-it got somewhat chunky again. Suggestions?

We made this tonight and shared it with our neighbor (aka: guinea pig). We also made your crostini. We polished the whole thing off along with a bottle of Chardonnay and it was superb!! Thanks for all you do. 

God bless you and your family during the troubles you’ve had recently. You’re starting to rival Job.  Keep the faith.

This was so delicious and easy, thank you.

Made this up Friday and did not bake until Saturday, it was sooooooo good! This dip is so customizable, I will add more garlic next time and more red pepper flakes.  I used generic organic feta but I’m going to experiment with a stronger more authentic feta. I only had Thai basil and did not think it would work, I will sprinkle fresh basil next time. Leftovers would go great stuffed in an omelet if you are an egg eater!

This is so simple and insanely good!  We had an abundance of tomatoes from our garden so this recipe worked perfectly. Will be adding this one to our rotation of fav recipes!

A friend gifted me part of her cherry tomato surplus so I knew I needed to make this recipe after really liking the TikTok pasta version. I used the full 8 oz of feta. It was delicious. I served with toast slices. Plus it was sooo easy to make. Definitely recommend.

It turned out terrible. Too runny, not a nice flavor, might be better with a mix of cream cheese and mozerella. Would NOT MAKE AGAIN

Delicious! I made it with jarred garlic and cherry tomatoes from our garden and it was so good! Will definitely make again

Yesterday I tried a very similar recipe - I just did not add olives. I don't like them. I have seen this recipe on TikTok and I decided to try because it looks so easy and does not require super-hard-to-get ingredients, just simple cherry tomatoes and feta cheese. I have few seedlings of tomatoes growing on my balcony so I used them for this recipe. I have particularly this one: https://gardenseedsmarket.com/cherry-tomato-mixed-seeds-lycopersicon-esculentum.html but I have used just red tomatoes. And it turned out very delicious!

Great recipe, tasty, fancy, and easy.  I had a bit left over, and mixed it into some steel-cut oats with an egg on top and some steamed broccoli for breakfast the next day. Also excellent on a bagel!

I just bought your book after trying recipes on your feed, thank you.

Best, Quick and Tasty Appetizer!!!  OMG!! so delish!  Thank you, Kate!  This was brilliant!!!!!

Incredibly delicious and so easy to make.  Guests ask for the recipe every time I serve it!

I made it this weekend. I'm not sure I used all the tomatoes called for, but I will use more next time. I used Murrays (found at Mariano's) feta cheese made from sheeps milk. It's very good. My guests really liked the dip. I will definitely make it again. thanks.

Very nice saganaki recipe chef . Thank you for your effort . You can use hard ricotta cheese, or fresh ricotta but you have to use it after you have bake the tomatoes have way, also a hallumi cheese 

This was amazing!!! It didn’t look too good but the taste was out of this world. So glad my picky hubs got past the looks lol

This is the best thing I've ever eaten. And I've eaten a lot of really good things and I'm a fairly good cook. This is my favorite. I think everyone should know about this.

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