If you want a light, summer salad with Mediterranean flavours, I recommend you the tomatoes Caprese salad recipe, with mozzarella, oregano and extra virgin olive oil. An Italian salad, easy to make but full of flavours.
We will make this Caprese salad respecting the original recipes, using tomatoes, mozzarella and basil leaves because in my opinion there is no point in complicating this delicious salad too much.
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Let Me Show You the Ingredients
Of course, the basic ingredients are tomatoes, which must be seasonal, if possible baked in the sun and flavoured. That’s why I recommend that you make this salad when it’s tomato season if you want to get a delicious Caprese salad.
Another recommendation would be to use several types of tomatoes, so you can combine several flavours, I used four types of tomatoes.
We also need mozzarella, from which we used 250 g and some basil leaves, with which we will flavour the salad.
How it Make the Tomatoes Caprese Salad Recipe?
In my opinion, this is one of the easiest salads and one of the fastest recipes I’ve made. First, we have to slice the tomatoes, so we started with the big ones that we washed and cut them in half first.
Then I cut them in half again and sliced them, because I didn’t want to have very large slices.
I continued with the yellow tomatoes, which is a little smaller I only cut them in two and then I sliced them.
We place them on top of the other sliced tomatoes on a larger plate.
I decided to season them now because I can mix them better, so I put a teaspoon of sea salt, a teaspoon of freshly ground pepper and a teaspoon of dried oregano.
Now we can slice the two pieces of mozzarella, into not too large slices, ideally, it should be the size of tomato slices.
Place the mozzarella among the tomato slices and finish with the cherry tomatoes cut in half.
Break some fresh basil leaves, which is not recommended to cut with a knife, but just to spread it over the tomatoes.
Sprinkle everything with extra virgin olive oil and a little balsamic vinegar (if you want you can omit it), and that’s it my tomatoes Caprese salad recipe, ready to serve.
How to Serve Caprese Salad?
It can be consumed as an entree, with fresh leavened bread, at any time of the day.
If you like salads, I recommend you try the following delicious recipes from our blog, such as:
- Grilled Apricot Salad Recipe
- Tomato Avocado Egg Salad Recipe
- Easy Cold Pasta Salad Recipe
- The Best Greek Salad Recipe
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Tomatoes Caprese Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 500 g red tomatoes
- 250 g yellow tomatoes
- 100 g cherry tomatoes
- 250 g mozzarella
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper freshly ground
- 1 teaspoon dryed oregano
- 12 leaves fresh basil
- 3 tbsp olive oil extra virgen
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- We have to slice the tomatoes, so we started with the big ones that we washed and cut them in half first, then I cut them in half again and sliced it. continued with the yellow tomatoes, which is a little smaller I only cut them in two and then I sliced it. Slice the two pieces of mozzarella, into not too large slices, ideally, it should be the size of tomato slices.
- Place the red and yellow sliced tomatoes on a larger plate. Season them with sea salt, freshly ground pepper and dried oregano. Place the mozzarella among the tomato slices and finish with the cherry tomatoes cut in half. Break some fresh basil leaves and spread it over the tomatoes. Sprinkle everything with extra virgin olive oil and a little balsamic vinegar.
- It can be consumed as an entree, with fresh leavened bread, at any time of the day.
