Roast grapes with fresh seasonal fruit and top with burrata for a salty, sweet, tangy and colorful appetizer that comes together in 30min or less!
The heat concentrates the grape flavor, bring out their natural sweetness. The skin caramelizes and insides turn into a melt-in-your-mouth jammy consistency. Balanced by the tanginess of the vinegar and the lusciously creamy burrata with endless possibilities for variation!
Use assortment of grapes for a variety of flavor and color! Adding figs! Or olives! Strawberries are a delicious addition too!
Why This Recipe Works
- Quick & Easy! This dish comes together 30 min or less!
- Roasting on high heat! Brings out the grapes natural sweetness and concentrates their flavor.
- All the flavors! The sweetness of the grapes is balanced by the tangy vinegar, creamy burrata and savory thyme.
- Burrata makes everything better. Period.
- Versatile! Dish lends itself to the addition of various other seasonal fruit making for endless possibilities year round!
- Enjoy any time of day! Roasted grapes can be enjoyed from brunch to lunch to dinner or even dessert!
Using different grapes yields a variety of colors and flavors.
Roast grapes can be paired with an assortment of sweet to savory dishes; from pork chops to vanilla ice cream
How to Make Roasted Grapes
Please enjoy these step-by-step images for easy cooking!
Variation with Figs
Variation with Figs & Olives
arrange grapes add other seasonal fruit like figs
top with balsamic-thyme drizzle 
bake and top with burrata or mozzarella
Variation with Strawberries
grape and strawberries topped with balsamic drizzle and thyme spigs
roast top with cheese
Grapes + a few simple ingredients = party pleasing appetizer dish!
To de-stem or not to de-stem… that is the questions!
Personally, I left the stem on for purely presentation purposes (aka food styling). For easy, pop-in-your-mouth grape access, de-stem them before roasting!
Ways to Use Roasted Grapes
- Easy appetizer
- Snacking
- Serve them on a cheeseboard
- Use them to make crostini’s
- Top them on a pizza
- Spoon them over or savory dish like grilled chicken or pork chops
- Spoon them over something sweet dish like ice cream or a cheesecake
If you’ve never roasted grapes, you’re in for a real treat!
Cooks Tips
- Not all burrata is created equal. Splurge on the good stuff when possible.
- Add in your favorite seasonal fruit with the grapes and get playful in the kitchen!
- Best enjoyed warm, with thick cut bread to soak up all the juices.
- Leftovers will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days, re-heat in a 350F degree oven for 10-15 min before serving.
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Balsamic & Thyme Roasted Grapes with Burrata
Ingredients
- 1 pound grapes any variety or a combo
- 1 pint figs cut in half, generally about 6-9 figs; 1/2 pound (optional)
- 4 balls burrata 8 oz/ball
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup balsamic
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves minced
- a few thyme sprigs or other fresh herbs such as basil for garnish (optional)
- salt kosher and flaky to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 F degrees.
- Place grapes and figs (or other seasonal fruit of choice) on a baking dish.
- Whisk olive oil, balsamic, honey, minced thyme leaves, and kosher salt together and drizzle over grapes and figs. Top with thyme sprigs.
- Bake in oven for 20 min, shaking the dish halfway through, until grapes are starting to burst, wrinkle and split.
- Break burrata balls up into chunks and arrange over baked grapes. (optional to bake for another 5 minutes if you prefer your cheese melt-y). Sprinkle dish with freshly cracked pepper, flaky salt and a few more fresh thyme leaves (optional). Serve warm.
This is unreal, I had it and couldn’t stop eating it especially when you soak the bread on the oil. WOW ????
Thank you so much!!! I'll make it for you again :).
Turned out perfectly, put some fresh arugula on the plate first, the whole burrata on top, and poured the grapes over it with an extra drizzle of olive oil. 10/10
Yum!!!! Peppery fresh arugula pairs so wonderfully with this dish! Am so stoked to receive your feedback! Thank you :)!
I used this as a base for an adaptation. No figs, so I just used the red table grapes I had, plus fresh mulberries from the garden and kalamata olives. In the absence of burrata I threw it in a grilled cheese sandwich with sourdough and funky provolone. It was fantastic!
Thanks so much for sharing Lo and so stoked to hear that!! Love the addition of fresh mulberries and that's so rad that ya grow them in your garden :).
Amazing!!! I added some chopped pistachios on top for a little crunch!
Yum ~ adding pistachio's sounds delicious and pairs wonderfully! Thanks so much for sharing :).