Grilled Greens and Cheese on Toast

Active Time

25 minutes
Total Time

25 minutes

Have everyone pile charred Halloumi cheese, kale, and cherry tomatoes onto grilled bread rubbed with garlic for an almost-instant summer dinner. Or, you can skip the bread and treat the same ingredients as a side salad to go alongside grilled meat.

Ingredients

2 servings

2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for grill and drizzling

1 large or 2 small bunches Tuscan kale, stems removed

1/2 tsp. kosher salt, plus more

1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper

6 oz. cherry tomatoes

1/2 lb. Halloumi cheese, sliced into 1/2" planks

1 lemon, halved crosswise

4 thick slices country-style bread

1 large garlic clove, peeled, halved

Special Equipment

2 (8"–12"-long) metal skewers

Step 1
Prepare a grill for medium-high heat. Oil grate. Toss kale with 2 Tbsp. oil, 1/2 tsp. salt, and 1/2 tsp. pepper in a large bowl; set aside.
Step 2
Thread tomatoes onto skewers, then drizzle with oil; season lightly with salt.
Step 3
Grill tomato skewers, Halloumi, and lemon halves, turning skewers and cheese halfway through, until charred and softened, 6–8 minutes. Transfer to a platter.
Step 4
Meanwhile, drizzle bread with oil; season lightly with salt. Grill until golden brown and crisp, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to platter. Rub one side of each slice with halved garlic clove.
Step 5
Grill kale, placing it crosswise across grate so it doesn’t fall through the gaps and turning occasionally, until charred in places and softened throughout, 2–3 minutes. Transfer to platter alongside Halloumi, tomatoes, and bread.
Step 6
Push tomatoes off skewers. Squeeze charred lemon halves over Halloumi, tomatoes, kale, and bread. Drizzle with oil.

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Reviews (9)

Simplicity and perfection. Add nothing.
- Ghoti
- New York, NY
- 1/4/2023
We love love love this recipe. No changes, perfect as-is, in its simplicity. Delicious vegetarian option that's frequently in rotation. Give it a try!
- ash
- Maryland
- 5/11/2022
This recipe has been in full rotation during the summer for several years. Everyone loves it. Sometimes we grill simply marinated chicken or beef (flank) to serve alongside. I have used all kinds of greens, collards being the family favorite. Use grilled lemons on EVERYTHING❤️
- JCShrodes
- Columbus, Ohio
- 4/23/2022
This is a question, not a review but I hve to leave a rating to ask ... I do not understand the reference to demerara sugar in a review. How, why was it used?
- agf1
- 8/6/2020
Incredible vegetarian meal. We've been looking for more vegetarian on the grill recipes, and this one is our favorite so far. Will be making this often. The grilled kale tastes a lot like kale chips made in the oven - crispy, salty, delish.
- kwkolli
- Chapel HIll
- 10/2/2019
Fantastic! Simple, but oh, so delicious. We used olive bread and agreed that added a lot of flavor. Also grilled some zucchini. A keeper we will enjoy all summer!
- hazzard
- Seattle
- 6/15/2019
Fabulous!!! Used more garlic, organic fresh basil, 1/8 cup Demerara sugar. Fast, simple, delicious. Thank you!
- souricette
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- 6/7/2019
Fabulous!!! Added a bit more garlic and cut to 1/8 cup Demerara sugar. Used fresh organic basil. Simple, fast, delicious. Thank you!
- souricette
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- 6/7/2019
I made this last night for dinner with some slight modifications, just to bulk the meal up some. The kale was great on the grill. I found on-the-vine cherries and just grilled them as such. I also grilled some eggplant and roman artichokes. Everything got a nice squeeze of lemon. The meal was clean, flavorful, fun, and filling. We enjoyed it immensely.
- Jessicachronowski
- Rochester Hills, MI
- 5/28/2019
Made it this weekend -- and it was fantastic. Everyone was skeptical, but the kale and lemon juice was great, and everything was magically transformed with the tomatoes. Only change I made was we cooked the tomatoes in a grill basket and added some pesto with the olive oil on the tomatoes before they were grilled. We also served up some burrata on the side with the tomatoes and grilled bread. Now I have a veggie dish worth firing up the grill for!
- Anonymous
- Naperville, IL
- 5/28/2019