Spinach Caprese Salad
Total time: 10 minutes
Spring is too early for a proper 'Caprese' Salad, but why not improvise with cherry tomatoes and spinach?
Ingredients:
- 3oz (90gr) spinach
- 1 ball mozzarella de Bufala, package weight usually around 8oz (240gr), net weight 4oz (120gr)
-
10 - 12 cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 onion
- 1oz (30gr) bacon
- 1 tbs Balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbs plus 1 tsp olive oil
- handful fresh basil leaves
- more oil and Balsamic as desired
Instructions:
- Prepare spinach, wash and spin dry if needed. Tear for salad.
- Cut mozzarella into 4 slices.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
- Select nice basil leaves for on top of the mozzarella. Put any others in with the spinach.
- Roughly chop onion.
- Cut bacon into matchsticks.
- Sauté onion and bacon in 1 tsp olive oil until bacon is crisp.
- In a medium bowl whisk together 1 tbs olive oil and 1 tbs Balsamic vinegar.
- Add spinach and toss well to coat. Add bacon and onion, toss lightly.
- Divide spinach onto two plates.
- Arrange tomatoes around the edges of the spinach.
- Arrange the mozzarella on top of the spinach and top mozzarella with basil leaves.
- Serve, with extra oil and vinegar on the side.