Caprese Salad-Crazy delicious Italian Salad with simple ingredients! This Caprese Salad Recipe is loaded with homemade croutons and video!
Start off by making the croutons. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Place the bread and all ingredients on a lined baking sheet and toss well.
Bake for 10-14 minutes until crisp and golden. Allow it to cool.
Make the dressing: combine all ingredients in a jar or medium bowl. Mix well.
Place the basil, mozzarella and tomatoes in a large bowl.
Add in as much or little of the homemade croutons as you like.
drizzle the dressing over the salad.
Serve and enjoy!
This is a really simple salad to make and can be used as either a main dish or even as a lovely side dish to complement almost any other dish. Once you've tried this version of a Caprese salad with a pesto balsamic dressing, you'll be making this healthy dish again and again.
If you can't find any of the small little balls of mozzarella cheese then you can use the normal mozzarella you find in your local store. You can then either break the cheese up into little chunks or slice the cheese and layer it on your salad platter.
Traditionally this recipe uses normal tomatoes and not cherry tomatoes. However, I've used cherry tomatoes as they are full of flavour and sweeter than your normal large tomatoes. If you can I would use cherry tomatoes but you can use ordinary ones if necessary.
It a great salad and appetizer as it is. However you can also use it on toast, quiche, pasta with chicken and so much more!!
A popular question and the answer is straightforward YES!! It's like the "greens" of a green salad, and it compliments the tomatoes and mozzarella so beautifully!