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Caprese Salad


Ingredients

  • 1 ball of buffalo mozzarella
  • 3 medium-size ripe tomatoes (or equivalent)
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Good-quality red wine vinegar

For the dressing

  • A handful of basil leaves
  • Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
  • Extra virgin olive oil

Method

  1. First make your dressing. Keeping a few leaves aside for later, pound the the basil with a good pinch of salt in a mortar and pestle. Add a splash of oil and stir it in to make thick dressing.
  2. Carefully tear the mozzarella on to your serving plate. Roughly chop the tomatoes and add to the plate sprinkle over some olive oil, a little red-wine vinegar and salt and pepper. Drizzle the basil sauce over the top. Sprinkle the reserved basil leaves and serve.
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Delicious served with a little proscuitto and some crunchy bread.

Recipe Rating

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  • jackicam
    May 2009

    This is one of my favourite salads - just give me a plate of this with crusty Italian bread and a glass of Cab Sav and I'm happy : )

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