Italian
Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
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Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Slice the tomatoes and the mozzarella into rounds of similar thickness.
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Arrange them alternating on a plate, tucking basil leaves between the slices.
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Season with salt and drizzle with olive oil.
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Serve at room temperature for the best flavor.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Insalata di Finocchi e Arance (Fennel and Orange Salad) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 260 kcal
- Protein
- 16 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 19 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 200 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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