Caprese salad

Name: Caprese salad
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 clove garlic (If you don't like the sharpness of garlic than first cook them a few minutes); 1 pinch sea salt; 50 gram basil (use fresh basil but dry leaves); 20 gram Parmesan cheese (grated); 20 gram pine nuts (lightly toasted); 3 tbl spoon olive oil; 1 tbl spoon lemon juice (depends on your taste...); 3 medium tomatoes (preferably ripe); 10 leaves basil; 125 gr Mozzarella (one whole piece); 2 tbl spoon olive oil; 1 tbl spoon balsamico or Pedro Ximenez syrup; black pepper and seasalt

A simple but deliciously tasty salad. I add a little bit of homemade pesto dressing, in combination with balsamic syrup or Pedro Ximenez syrup. Make sure you use tasty ripe tomatoes, then everything tastes twice as good.

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Prep Time 15

Total Time 15

Course Vegetables, Side dish, Salads

Cuisine Italian, Mediterranean

Servings persons

Ingredients

to prepare the pesto

1 clove garlic If you don't like the sharpness of garlic than first cook them a few minutes
1 pinch sea salt
50 gram basil use fresh basil but dry leaves
20 gram Parmesan cheese grated
20 gram pine nuts lightly toasted
3 tbl spoon olive oil
1 tbl spoon lemon juice depends on your taste…

the salad

3 medium tomatoes preferably ripe
10 leaves basil
125 gr Mozzarella one whole piece
2 tbl spoon olive oil
1 tbl spoon balsamico or Pedro Ximenez syrup
black pepper and seasalt

Instructions

to make the pesto

In a mortar, mash the garlic clove and pine nuts. Add the rest of the ingredients for the pesto and work everything in the mortar until you get a smooth paste. If you use an electric cutter, be careful that the blades do not get too hot. Otherwise the pesto will turn into a more brown color…

the salad

Cut the tomatoes into 3-5 mm slices and divide them over a plate. Cut the mozzarella into 3 mm thick slices and place them over the tomatoes. I like to just tear the Mozzarella apart and divide it into pieces over the salad. Add some extra basil leaves. Put some of the pesto over the salad. Cover with a bit off olive oil and the balsamic vinegar. Season with salt and pepper.

Notes

I serve this salad in different ways. Sometimes as a lunch salad with a nice piece of fresh wholemeal bread, but usually in combination with, for example, a vegetable or herb omelet. That will make a complete dish…

Keyword healthy salad

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