BAKED CAPRESE SALAD
A baguette of French bread is cut into slices and toasted with roma tomato and fresh mozzarella cheese slices, then sprinkled with snipped fresh basil leaves and drizzled with extra-virgin olive oil.
Provided by Amanda
Categories Salad Vegetable Salad Recipes Tomato Salad Recipes
Time 25m
Yield 15
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
- Arrange slices of baguette onto a baking sheet and brush both sides of each slice with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Sprinkle with sea salt.
- Toast the bread in the preheated oven until lightly golden brown and crisp, about 5 minutes. Flip the bread slices over and top each slice with a slice of tomato and a slice of mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with salt.
- Return crostini to the oven and bake until tomato and mozzarella slices are warmed through, about 5 more minutes.
- Arrange the crostini onto a serving platter and sprinkle with basil. Drizzle with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and sprinkle lightly with more sea salt and black pepper.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 233.2 calories, Carbohydrate 18.9 g, Cholesterol 29.8 mg, Fat 12.3 g, Fiber 1.1 g, Protein 10.7 g, SaturatedFat 6.1 g, Sodium 273.4 mg, Sugar 2.2 g
BAKED CAPRESE SALAD
Provided by Giada De Laurentiis
Categories appetizer
Time 30m
Yield 8 to 12 appetizer servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
- Arrange the sliced baguette bread on a baking sheet. Brush with some of the olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Bake until the bread is pale golden and crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven. Top each slice of bread with a slice of tomato and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Top each slice of tomato with a slice of mozzarella and sprinkle with salt. Return the baking sheet to the oven until the cheese and tomato are warmed, about 5 minutes.
- Arrange the toasts on a serving platter. Top each toast with a basil leaf. Using the brush, drizzle the remaining olive oil over the basil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and serve.
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