Grilled Peach and Burrata Toast with Honey & Basil

Grilled peach and burrata toast with garlic sourdough, honey, basil, and chili pepper flakes is an easy summer meal made right on the grill.

Hello, my friends. Are you hanging in there?

It is HOT outside. Like—practically the surface of the sun hot. The kind of hot where you walk outside and immediately wonder why you bothered showering.

So naturally, my air conditioning chose this exact moment to give its immediate resignation notice.

Not two weeks. Nope. Just a quick, “Thanks for the opportunity to cool you off, but I’m quitting…effective immediately.”

Excellent. Love that for me.

Needless to say, I’m not turning on my oven—or honestly anything else inside my house that produces heat—until I can figure out how to make it feel less like we’re living inside a toaster.

Enter these beautiful Grilled Peach and Burrata Toasts.

They’re pretty. They’re ridiculously easy. And they almost make my air conditioning woes fade away.

Almost.

And even if you’re sitting in a perfectly air-conditioned room right now, you should make these anyway. Because grilled peaches piled over creamy burrata and garlicky sourdough, then drizzled with honey and sprinkled with basil and a little chile pepper are exactly the kind of thing that makes you feel fancy and like you’ve totally got your life together.

Ask me how I know.

This Is More Technique Than Recipe

Here’s what I love about this one: there really aren’t rules.

You need some good bread, ripe peaches, burrata, and a few things to make them even more delicious. That’s about it.

I used thick slices of homemade sourdough because there is almost always a loaf lurking somewhere in my kitchen. But store-bought sourdough works beautifully too. I’m not standing beside the grill checking your bread credentials.

The peaches get brushed with a little simple syrup before they hit the grill. It gives their natural sugar a helping hand and encourages those gorgeous caramelized grill marks. Then the bread joins them for the last few minutes so the garlic butter can melt into all those little sourdough nooks and crannies while the edges get wonderfully toasty.

And then comes the burrata.

Oh, burrata.

You tear that beautiful little ball of cheese open and let the creamy center spill all over the warm garlic toast. Layer those grilled peaches on top, add a drizzle of honey, some fresh basil and a sprinkle of chile peppers and suddenly you have lunch that looks like it came from a cute little café.

Except you made it in approximately six minutes while hiding from the heat.

Who’s fancy now?

Make It Your Own

Think of this recipe as an invitation rather than a set of rules.

Want more peaches? Add them.

Love honey? Give it another drizzle.

Don’t want the heat from the chile peppers? Leave them off. Want a little more? Go for it.

And if you’ve got a different sturdy bread hanging around the kitchen, use that. Food should work for the people eating it, and something this simple is the perfect place to play around.

The combination we’re really after is warm, crunchy bread + creamy cheese + sweet summer peaches. Everything else gets to come along for the ride.

Grilled Peach and Burrata Toast

Yield: 2 large toasts
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 6 minutes
Total Time: 11 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 thick slices sourdough bread, homemade or store-bought
• Garlic butter, for generously spreading over the bread
• 2–3 ripe peaches
• Simple syrup, for brushing
• 1 ball burrata cheese
• Honey, for drizzling
• Crushed chile peppers, to taste
• Fresh basil leaves, for serving

Instructions

1. Preheat your outdoor grill or grill pan.
2. Spread a generous layer of garlic butter over one side of each slice of sourdough bread.
3. Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits. Lightly brush the cut sides with simple syrup.
4. Place the peaches on the hot grill, cut-side down. Grill for about 3 minutes, or until they begin to caramelize and develop grill marks.
5. Flip the peaches. Add the sourdough bread to the grill, garlic-butter side up. Grill everything for another 3 minutes, or until the peaches are tender and caramelized and the bread is crisp and toasted.
6. Remove the peaches and bread from the grill.
7. Tear the burrata open and divide it between the two pieces of warm toast.
8. Thinly slice the grilled peaches and arrange them over the burrata.
9. Drizzle each toast with honey and finish with crushed chile peppers and fresh basil leaves.
10. Eat immediately—preferably somewhere cool.

Notes

No outdoor grill? A grill pan works beautifully. Although if your house is approximately 147 degrees like mine currently is, I fully support taking this operation outside.

About the peaches: You want peaches that are ripe and flavorful but still firm enough to hold their shape on the grill. Save the super-soft, juice-running-down-your-arm peaches for eating over the sink.

About the simple syrup: You only need a light coating. We’re not candying the peaches here—just giving them a little extra sugar to help encourage caramelization.

Make it your own: Measurements are intentionally loose because this is much more technique than recipe. Adjust the burrata, honey, basil and chile peppers to suit the people sitting at your table.

A Little Bit of Summer on Toast

There are recipes we make because we have a plan.

And then there are recipes we make because the air conditioner quit, it’s hotter than the hinges of Hades outside, and turning on the oven feels like an act of aggression.

Sometimes those are the really good ones.

This Grilled Peach and Burrata Toast is everything I want from summer food. It’s simple, beautiful and filled with things that are at their very best right now. Sweet peaches. Fresh basil. Good bread. Creamy cheese. A little honey.

Nothing complicated. Nothing fussy.

Just really good food made with what we’ve got—and, in my case, a desperate commitment to producing absolutely no additional heat inside this house.

Make yourself a toast, pour something cold, and sit somewhere shady.

We’ve got this, my friends.

Even if the air conditioner apparently does not.