Recipe

Pasta Caprese Recipe

	Lexisone / All my dishes 1 year, 6 months ago I got this from america's test kitchen. it is a great recipe. made 2 small changes, but you don't have to follow them if you choose not too. Prep:20m Cook:20m Servings:6	Lexisone
	easy fast excellent flavor

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Ingredients

1lb Fusilli, rigatoni, or penne pasta

1/4 cup Extra-virgin olive oil

Juice of 1 lemon

1 clove garlic minced garlic

1 Small shallot , minced fine

1.5 lbs Ripe Heirloom Cherry tomatoes (if not available use ripe tomatos, cored, seeded, and cut into 1/2-inch dice)

12oz Fresh Marinated Mozzarella balls (if not available use 12oz fresh cut in small cubes) - see note

1/4 cup Chopped fresh basil

Table salt and ground black pepper

1 teaspoon Sugar (dependent upon ripeness and quality of tomatoes)

Directions

Mix olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, shallots and salt and pepper. (Add sugar if the tomatoes aren't sweet, juicy and ripe)

Marinate tomatoes in dressing

Remove mozzarella from marinating oil and cut in half then put on plate in the freezer (trust me with this!)

Bring water to a boil

Heavily salt water

Add pasta and cook until al dente

drain well

add pasta and mozzarella to tomatoes and toss lightly and let sit for about 5 minutes

toss with chopped basil and season with salt and pepper to taste

Enjoy!

Note - I reserve the oil the mozzarella was marinating with and serve it with a crusty baguette. Excellent vegetarian meal served with a salad, or grill some chicken or shrimp skewers for a non-veggie option.

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Comments

chefmeow 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Yum. I saw them make this and it looked incredible. Glad to have the recipe. Great changes by the way. You have my 5.