The most wonderful caprese salad. Soft buffalo mozzarella, plum tomatoes and fresh basil. With a few extra touches :-) The red, white and green of the Italian flag in food form.
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Ingredients
12mini roma tomatoes(or mini plum tomatoes)
4slicesof wholemeal bread
8black olives
4sun-dried tomatoes
1ball of buffalo mozzarella
2tablespoonbasil oilor extra virgin olive oil if you have no basil oil
Cracked black pepper
Small bunch of fresh basil(finely shredded)
Instructions
Cut the tomatoes into quarters.
Lightly toast the bread, and using a cookie cutter create a crisp circular crostini. Alternatively you can leave the toast as a square. Just be sure to remove the crusts.
Gently squash your olives into pieces.
Slice the sun dried tomatoes into small strips.
Rip the mozzarella into bite sized chunks.
Plate up your salad, with the crostini on the bottom, then tomatoes, mozzarella chuck, sprinkle over the olives and sun dried tomatoes.
Drizzle over the oil and garnish with a good grinding of black pepper and your shredded basil leaves.