A delicious Caprese pasta salad, cold pasta to enjoy on hot days, quick and light, very easy to prepare, with just the pasta to cook, make sure it’s al dente, or as per personal taste. The Caprese pasta is made with a few ingredients, and as you might have guessed from the name, Caprese, it’s made with the ingredients of the Caprese salad, mozzarella, tomato, and basil, dressed with good extra virgin olive oil. In summer, you never feel like spending much time at the stove, and when the heat is unbearable, it’s ideal to cook during the cooler hours, prepare everything in advance, and then enjoy delightful cold dishes that are also more pleasant and light, and very easy to prepare, also great to take to work or maybe to the beach. So let’s see how to prepare cold Caprese pasta. Here you can find other delicious cold pasta recipes, in summer also excellent are rice salads, or legume salads, potato salads.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 2
- Cooking methods: Boiling
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer, and Fall
Ingredients for Caprese Pasta Salad
- 5.3 oz short pasta
- 3.5 oz mozzarella balls
- 5 cherry tomatoes
- to taste basil
- to taste salt
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
Tools for Caprese Cold Pasta
- 1 Pot
- 1 Colander
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Cutting board
- 1 Knife
- 1 Spoon
Steps for Preparing Caprese Pasta Salad
Cook the pasta al dente in salted boiling water, drain it and put it in a bowl with a tablespoon of oil and mix. Let it cool, stirring occasionally.
Wash the cherry tomatoes and on a cutting board cut them into 4, add to the cold pasta, cut the mozzarella balls in half and add them, do the same with the basil, wash and chop it and add to the pasta, mix well, then if needed add a little salt and extra virgin olive oil. Let it cool well and flavor before enjoying. Of course, it can be enriched as desired. You can add tuna in olive oil, or even a bit of basil pesto.
