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Insalata Caprese is traditionally served
with no other dressing than a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
However if you’re not absolutely confident that your tomatoes
have the best flavour,
a little balsamic vinegar will
help them along and
remember to use only top quality ingredients.
To make a tomato and mozzarella salad or caprese salad,
you will need ingredients from the Italian flag;
green for the basil, white for the mozzarella
and red for the tomatoes plus
extra virgin olive oil and seasoning-
salt and freshly ground pepper corns.
Today we are fortunate to have the real Mozzarella Di Bufala from Naples.
If you cannot find this mozzarella that is very creamy
and absolutely delicious, you may substitute it with bocconcini.
Typically bocconcini are available in different sizes
and they are made from cow milk.
When you open your mozzarella, you will find out
that the mozzarella soak in a little bath of (somio)
which is a light salted water,
so drain it and
its pretty soft compared to bocconcini
look inside it will be creamy.
Prepare your tomato.
So remove the core. Use a serrated knife to cut the tomatoes.
Cut the tomato in very thin slices.
To cut the mozzarella, use a chef’s knife.
Cut the mozzarella in half.
Look at the softness and the milk, you could see
the milk of the mozzarella.
Clean your knife
then position the mozzarella cut side down
and cut it into thin slices, gently.
It is crusty on the outside and then it becomes very soft.
Plate your salad by alternating
a slice of tomato and a slice of bocconcini
in a round motion.
Move things around to have a nice fan.
If you have extra tomato,
then dice them up and add it to the center.
Then cut your basil into chiffonade.
So wash your basil ahead, pat dry it.
Then place the leaf on top of each other,
stack them, roll them like a little cigar
from the stem side towards the pointy side
and cut them into thin chiffonade or little julienne.
Place the julienne, the basil chiffonade over the salad.
Now our salad has all the colours of the Italian flag - green, white and red.
Viva Italia!
Season you salad; pinch of salt
so I’m using a fine sea salt
then freshly ground pepper corn.
Not too much.
And finally, your extra virgin olive oil;
about a tablespoon per person
and garnish with a nice basil leaf on the centre.
In the plate, you may serve the salad right away
but my recommendation will be to wait a few minutes
like 3 to 5 minutes for all the flavour to combine.
And like my friend Roberto will say, “Buon appetito a tutti!”
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