Easy caprese salad recipe

The caprese salad is one of those perfect dishes for summer, because besides being refreshing, it is low in calories.

So my plan with this caprese salad recipe is that you can do as I do, and take advantage of that in summer it gives a lot (but a LOT) less hunger than in winter (at least in my case) and get on the "healthy" trend. Or you can deceive yourself, like me, because the truth is that I'm always hungry, and when the cold comes back I'll eat at least a ton a day.

But returning to our salad caprese easy and fast recipe, there is still another advantage that I have not named: apart from that it is a healthy and light dish, it can be prepared when you almost do not have time, or there are almost no ingredients in your kitchen.

And then, if apart from all that you will have guests at home, a touch of international refinement would be fine.

How to make caprese salad

It clarifies that this salad is an Italian dish, from the island of Capri, as explained in its Wikipedia description .

To the point, let's start with the list of ingredients caprese salad, or capresa, as some in adapted Spanish call it.

Caprese salad recipe

Learn how to prepare step by step a fresh caprese salad, quick, easy and with few ingredients.

 Type of recipe Salads

 Type of kitchen Healthy

 Preparation time 10 minutes

 Total time 10 minutes

 Servings 2

 Author Lola Alfonzo

Ingredients

• 2 large tomatoes or three medium sized tomatoes to be fleshy, consistent and with as little juice as possible.
• 200 grams of mozzarella cheese: take about 100 grams for each large tomato. It is ideal to be buffalo mozzarella.
• 20 leaves of basil: about 10 leaves for each large tomato or a little less if it is the plant with longer leaves. The fresher the better. There are those who try the change for basil oil, at the risk of taking "light" from the dish.
• Olive oil: it is the best for dressing salads but if you have decided to use basil oil, this ingredient disappears from the list.
• Balsamic vinegar: totally optional because the original recipe does not include it.
• Salt and pepper: according to personal taste the pepper is replaceable by oregano.
• Black olives: sliced only for olives fans. Completely optional, this ingredient is also not part of the original recipe.

Preparation

1. Wash and disinfect tomatoes and basil leaves.
2. Cut tomato and mozarella cheese into slices, not too thin, nor too thick.
3. On a large or long plate, alternate a tomato wheel with a cheese wheel, until you finish these ingredients.
4. Arrange the basil leaves between the slices, or above, in a decorative way. If you have chosen basil oil instead of leaves, bathe the preparation with a string and do not use olive oil.
5. To bathe the preparation with a thread of olive oil and another one of balsamic vinegar (this last one is optional).
6. Add salt and pepper to taste, or oregano instead of pepper. If you have decided to use olives, this is the time to arrange the slices on the salad.

It is important to do all the preparation just before serving, especially the last two steps, to have a fresher salad.

If after this recipe you have been left with a craving for more salads for the summer, leave here this link to prepare spinach salad.