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The green of the Italian flag! Basil is an impactful herb: fresh and bright, peppery. They'll be little fresh mozzarella balls in water.įresh basil.

They're pretty easy to find at the grocery store where you find the other fresh cheeses. Their Italian name is perlini, 'little pearls', and they're perfect for this cherry tomato caprese salad recipe. I found gorgeous heirloom cherry tomatoes, golden cherry tomatoes, and some colorful grape tomatoes as well for variety. You'll want a good variety of tomatoes here, for different flavors, textures, and color. They have a slightly more concentrated tomato flavor, but taste generally like other sweet tomatoes.

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What are cherry tomatoes?Ĭherry tomatoes are a small variety of tomato that grow to be about the size of a cherry, with a thin, snappy skin and juicy flesh. The classic caprese salad is just one of the many delicious ways to enjoy caprese, there's also the caprese sandwich, pizza, pasta and even pasta salad. But it didn't skyrocket into international popularity until the 1950's when Egyptian king, King Farouk, was served caprese salad and raved about it. It's usually eaten as an appetizer, not a side dish, buuuuuuut I'm not judging if this ends up as a side at your next barbecue.Ĭaprese comes from the Campania region, named after the island of Capri, created by a patriotic bricklayer after World War I, creating a dish inspired by the Italian flag.

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How to Make a Cherry Tomato Caprese SaladĬaprese salad or insalata caprese is a delicious and simple Italian salad made of fresh tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese, sweet basil leaves, and extra virgin olive oil with a good sprinkle of salt.

Use It literally takes me less than ten minutes to put together and only needs 5 ingredients if you count salt.Īnd we're counting salt, right? Season your food, people! Jump to: It's one of my favorite salad recipes made with fresh ingredients, creamy mozzarella. We have a ton of beautiful pastures, animal sanctuaries, and small farms surrounding us so they are literally the farmers we see down a strip of road about a mile down and onward.Ĭonsidering we used to live in South Florida where the gator encounters and little lizards everywhere was our version of nature on a daily basis, this is still blowing my mind.Īll that to say, I found some absolutely stunning and super sweet ripe cherry tomatoes this past weekend and I knew they needed to be in a delicious caprese salad.

We live on the edge of a really small town, and every Sunday we go to the farmer’s market at town hall before church, and this isn't like a market where it's like people who are miles away and we don't actually know. Our first spring and summer in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains has been so amazing. This cherry tomato caprese salad is refreshing, light, and perfect for your next holiday party, backyard barbecue, or anytime snack. Keeping all the flavors of your traditional caprese salad just made cute and mini with colorful cherry tomatoes, mozzarella pearls, fresh basil leaves, and seasoned with a little salt and flavorful olive oil.

The perfect summer salad is this beautiful and delicious twist on insalata caprese.

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