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Caprese Salad

Welcome back! 
Today, we have an fresh and easy Italian dish: Caprese Salad! Caprese salad is possibly the most iconic Italian dish that isn't also loaded with carbs: it's really just cheese, tomatoes, and basil. These are also the three colors that make up the Italian flag, as well as the three ingredients that you find on the classic margherita pizza. There's just something refreshing about eating the juicy tomato with the creamy mozzarella together; plus, it's super healthy!

Caprese Salad

Ingredients:

  • Fresh mozzarella cheese
  • Tomato
  • Basil leaves
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Balsamic vinegar

Directions:

  1. Slice the mozzarella and tomato into similar sized slices. Aim for about a quarter of an inch.
  2. Pick and wash some basil leaves.
  3. Arrange the ingredients in the pattern of tomato, cheese, and then basil.
  4. Drizzle some olive oil and balsamic vinegar on top.

Balsamic vinegar isn't always a necessary addition, but we found it to be a nice flavor contrast with the rest of the ingredients. Plus, we found these really interesting balsamic pearls that also had a fig flavor, so we had to use them with the caprese. You can also make the caprese salad into a sandwich with some bread or even into pasta if you cut the ingredients more finely. Apparently, there are also recipes for caprese pizza, but face it, that's just margherita pizza.

-Chefpo

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