Mozzarella is a soft cheese native to Italy. It has become popular all over the world due to its fast spreading properties on pizza. Having once tasted this cheese, people fall in love with a refined and delicate taste. They make real mozzarella in Italy from the milk of black buffalo. On sale you can find an analogue, not much distinguishable from the original, which is made from cow's milk.
For a salad with mozzarella cheese , its various forms are used. This is a Bocconcini, which is a big ball. It is cut into small flat pieces. Looks great in the salads of chilegini. These are small balls comparable in size to cherries. Perlini is also used. As the name implies, the shape of the smallest balls resembles pearls.
It is very useful to use salads with mozzarella cheese, since it has a lot of useful properties: it normalizes blood cholesterol, contains a lot of calcium, which is necessary for our bones, teeth and nails, and has a positive effect on the health of the heart and blood vessels. In the article, we will consider some easy recipes for making salads with mozzarella cheese with photos and detailed instructions. Let's start with the most famous.
Caprese
This light summer salad is perfect for breakfast. To prepare it, you need to buy a large ball of mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, basil, olives or capers (to taste), olive oil, preferably the first extraction, salt, black pepper if desired.
Tomatoes should be ripe, juicy, but not soft and without a hard "head" inside. Prescription basil is used green, but if you like the variety with burgundy streaks, then it can also be used.
This salad with mozzarella is made in different ways. The classic option is the one pictured. Cheese, tomatoes are cut into thin plates into thin plates (you can choose red and yellow fruits to make the dish brighter visually) and everything is laid out in layers. A slice of cheese is placed on a slice of tomato, on top is a sheet of basil and thinly sliced capers or seedless black olives. Then everything repeats again until the plate is full.
Some at the festive table decorate such a salad on skewers so that it would be convenient for guests to take it. On a wooden stick, all the ingredients are chopped alternately. In the end, when the dish is decorated, it must be sprinkled with olive oil, salt and pepper.
Summer salad with raspberries
Even a child will like such a delicious salad with mozzarella cheese, because there is a raspberry beloved by all. To create this masterpiece, you need to purchase 2 small balls of mozzarella (about 250 grams), take a cup of raspberries washed without water under the tail, two handfuls of arugula leaves, salt, you can add black pepper, preferably freshly ground. The salad is poured with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. They will need very little. Some professional chefs add raspberry vinegar instead of balsamic salad in such a salad.
To decorate the dish you need to take a large flat plate. Cheese is torn by hands into pieces of equal size and is scattered on a plate. Raspberry berries and arugula leaves scatter manually from above. On top of the bombarded components, everything is sprayed with olive oil and vinegar. Everything, the salad is ready! Can be served.
Walnuts
This is an original salad recipe with mozzarella cheese and tomatoes, with the addition of candied walnuts. To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- lettuce - 70 grams;
- half a glass of peeled walnuts;
- mozzarella cheese - about 10 small pieces;
- a handful of cherry tomatoes or two large ripe tomatoes;
- 2 tablespoons of honey;
- salt;
- olive oil;
- black pepper.
First you need to do nuts. 1 tbsp. l the oils are mixed in a small pan with 2 tablespoons of honey and brought to a boil over a fire. Then there are added pieces of nuts, and everything is mixed. Then the nuts are taken out and laid out one by one on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Send it to the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Then the candied nuts are removed and laid aside for cooling.
At this time, we’ll start preparing a salad with mozzarella cheese and tomatoes. Lettuce leaves are torn by hands, tomatoes are cut into slices, and if you use cherry tomatoes, then they are simply cut in half. Cheese is divided into thin slices. Cool nuts are poured on top. For pouring, mix 5 tablespoons of sesame oil and 3 tablespoons of soy sauce. When you salt and pepper the salad, do not forget that soy sauce also contains salt.
Salad with mozzarella balls
For such a salad, take the smallest balls of cheese and cherry tomatoes, greens can be used different, to your taste - arugula, basil, thinly sliced lettuce, spinach.
Traditionally, olive oil and vinegar are used as fill. If you take spinach greens, then vinegar can be omitted. He himself has a sour taste, and this will be enough to give a little acidity to the dish. Salt and black pepper are also added to taste.
Original Watermelon Salad
Watermelon is also added to the salad with shrimp and mozzarella cheese. The combination of products is unusual, so the taste will impress those who create it for the first time. Let's consider in detail how to do it.
Required Products:
- large shrimp - 500 grams;
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- the same amount of lemon juice;
- honey;
- 500 grams of peeled watermelon;
- 200 grams of cheese;
- several branches of basil;
- 4 tbsp. l olive oil;
Let’s take shrimp first. They are cleaned, salted, sprinkled with black pepper and lowered into a preheated pan with vegetable oil. Fried on both sides to a pinkish-golden color. Separately, a bowl for salad is made in a bowl. Mix lemon juice with olive oil, add honey to taste and mix well to dissolve the honey. Then salt is added to the liquid and sprinkled with pepper.
Shrimps, small balls of mozzarella cheese or diced cubes are poured into the salad bowl (if your cheese has the shape of a large ball). Watermelon is thoroughly peeled and cut into equal cubes. The basil leaves are torn off by hand from the twig and are filled with the rest of the ingredients. It remains to add a fill. Optionally, you can still pour a little vinegar.
Skewered Shrimp Salad
On a festive or buffet table, such skewers will look spectacular, as in the photo below. Products alternate as follows. First, cherry tomatoes are strung, then fried shrimp, basil leaf, mozzarella ball, again shrimp, leaf of greens, again ends with cherry tomato.
The dish needs to be salt and pepper. No oil is used as guests may get dirty. This type of salad with mozzarella cheese and cherry tomatoes can be done outdoors, on a picnic, in the country.
Eggplant Salad
This is a delicious salad that includes mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, basil and fried eggplant. The longest process of all the preparations is roasting eggplant. First, the vegetable is cut into thin circles. They must be the same size to be fried in a pan at the same time. Then we send the chopped eggplant in a bowl of cold salted water for 10 minutes. So undesirable bitterness will come out of it. Then the water is drained, and the vegetables are laid out on a dry paper towel to dry. Only when the eggplant slices are completely dry, are they sent to a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry to a light brown crust on both sides. Then they are also laid out on a paper towel so that the excess oil is glass.
For salad, cut thin slices of tomato, cheese, eggplant, and add basil leaves. Everything is salted and peppered, olive oil is added. You can add plain or balsamic vinegar to your taste.
Option with mussels and pine nuts
For such a salad you need to take:
- 200 grams of mussels, you can use a frozen sea salad, which includes, in addition to mussels, squid rings;
- a handful of arugula leaves;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- a dozen cherry tomatoes;
- a handful of toasted pine nuts;
- Provencal herbs;
- purple onions;
- black or pink olives.
For refueling, you need to take olive oil, soy sauce, salt and, to taste, black pepper.
In a preheated pan, squid rings and mussels are fried in oil until cooked. They are laid out in a separate container for cooling.
Pine nuts are dried either in the oven or in a skillet without adding oil. The remaining ingredients are cut into small pieces and laid out in a large salad bowl.
The fill is created separately in a small container. You can use a cup. Mix olive oil, a little soy sauce. If you do not have a selection of Provencal herbs, you can mix a little dried basil, rosemary, marjoram, add your favorite herbs and mix.
Before serving, the salad is watered with a fill.
Bacon salad
This recipe for a salad with mozzarella cheese includes ground fragrant tomatoes, basil, onions, toasted slices of bacon. Instead of bacon, you can use meat baked on the grill and cut into thin slices. The amount of greens can be increased by adding a handful of arugula to the basil. Some use sour spinach sliced into thin strips. Pour the salad with olive oil mixed with balsamic vinegar. Do not forget to salt it and, if desired, sprinkle with black pepper.
We hope that the reader will like the selected original recipes, because creating them is quick and easy, and the taste will please many. Good luck and bon appetit!