Linguine Caprese
Take a caprese salad, add garlic and butter and dump it on a pile of linguine! Easy. Peasy.
Linguine Caprese
Take a caprese salad, add garlic and butter and dump it on a pile of linguine! Easy. Peasy.
Servings: 4 serving
Ingredients
- 4 - 5 tomato firm ripe , chopped into medium cubes
- 1 bunch basil fresh
- salt and pepper ,
- 1 tbsp garlic
- olive oil
- linguine
- 2 tbsps butter
Instructions
- Boil a pot of water and cook linguine to almost done.
- In a mixing bowl mix together tomatoes, basil, pepper and a generous amount of salt. Allow to sit for at least 20 minutes til a good amount of juice is drawn out from the tomatoes
- In a large pan heat olive oil. Cook garlic til lightly browned.
- Strain tomatoes over the pan to capture all the juice. Bring to a boil and melt in butter.
- Stir in half the tomatoes and the strained linguine.
- Add 1/4 of the mozzarella and season with a little more salt and pepper. Cook on medium, stirring frequently til mozarella melts.
- Serve topped with more mozarella and a bit of fresh basil.
