Hi lovely people! I'm so excited
I am in Italy, you can see how beautiful it is.
All the world is beautiful but Italy's home for me and let me show you
how to make the perfect salad, yes! The one I'm talking about is the caprese, insalata caprese.
First of all, you need to buy nice tomatoes with many different varieties of tomatoes.
In Italy they make this particular one, very large tomato this kind of shape
but here we got quite a few different ones. They have to be ripe,
but not soft. So what you want to do is, when you do the salad don't cut it as a slice,
you can see what I'm doing. I follow the little line, a figure in this particular one.
Just on the side, some are big
some are small, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day you have to eat,
you have to enjoy it, and this is the perfect way to do it.
So I cut it and when I cut it, I remove the top.
Then I open it up, and you can see, look. So easy!
Then it goes straight onto the plate. Oh my my.
Then, use some nice cherry tomatoes remove, again, the top.
Don't do everything like everybody who does little slices, you don't need to.
So you cut it, and then you cut it again -
Then again, you put it on the side of the plate and then you get this kind
that's almost a green salad tomato. If you don't find it then use any kind of tomato
Just one single tomato. Then again you cut it. Look at the colour!
This is unbelievable, they're so sweet.
All of these different tomatoes can be found in all supermarkets.
Just put them in, yes it goes on the side here. Let me get the other one, it's a flat tomato.
Again, look at this lovely line. Just cut them on the side, do it the way I'm doing it and they just open up.
Slicing is very good but to do it this way is unbelievable,
it's really really good. Make sure that you remove the hard part this is very tough.
Okay, again, just cut it. Look the juice is coming out.
Now you've got a beautiful plate full of tomatoes. What do we do next? Yes, you need the mozzarella.
Buffalo mozzarella is perfect, but if you don't find a buffalo mozzarella just use
any kind of mozzarella, as long as it's nice and fresh. This is quite good, this is big, just slice it.
Not too much because you want to taste the tomatoes. Again slice it,
don't do it too thin like everybody, don't do that, that's very very very fine, you don't need to.
Then again, you go back to a big chunk, but I'll cut this one again.
Grab it, and just put them all round you as you can see.
Many chefs, many cooks, many house wives make their own versions, as along as they use these ingredients
it is okay. So once we've done this bit, we get some nice olive oil
This is very important, you get some lovely extra-virgin olive oil, you drizzle on
top a bunch of olive oil. When it mixes with the juice of a tomato, a little bit
of milk comes out from the mozzarella, it's fantastic. Then you grab some oregano.
Make sure you don't use fresh oregano, but a dry oregano. This is where all the flavour
is concentrated, you can find some in a little jar. Just get it like this, oh yeah.
Just a little bit. A little bit of salt on top. Salt is very important don't buy the very fine salt,
you know, we almost lose it, you can't really feel it. Buy salt, flat salt, you can crush it
between your fingers and that goes straight on top.
Not too much. Black pepper, ground black pepper, it is very very important.
You just put it on top. Let it do it. But the last, not the least, you need it,
some beautiful fresh basil. Just a few leaves or lots of leaves.
Pull it, don't cut it, just leave them on top. Oh yeah. This way.
Look at this bread! Oh my my. Just use bread, if you can eat
bread just you use bread.
This bread talks to me. Just a little bit. Let's have a look. Beautiful, rustic bread, it's all you need.
Get the salad on the side. A nice fork.
I almost want to pray. Look at that! It's very important that you rest the salad.
It has rested enough because I can't wait any more.
Now let's try. Try? I know for sure it's good. Oh my my, oh my, oh my.
Mozzarella, a little bit of the basil, little tomato.
Hmm! Hmm hmm.
What a flavour. I wish you could taste it. Look at this oil there! Mix it with a bit of
the juice from the mozzarella, there will be the juice of tomatoes, the oregano inside, the basil.
This is what we call 'fare la scarpetta'
and what scarpetta means is 'little shoe', or means 'wipe it'.
Hmm! Why is my cooking so good? Yes! Because of the ingredients. You can make it,
you can do it, and you will also say 'it tastes so good!'.
Bless you, I'm going to have this one now.