Blistered Tomatoes, Bocconcini, and Basil Leaf Salad
A Different Type of Salad - simple, yet delicious!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: sometimes it’s the simplest salad that’s the biggest hit on the menu.
Blistered tomatoes, bocconcini, basil leaves, a drizzle of olive oil and of course salt and ground pepper.
The recipe is simple, and if you’re looking for step-by-stepm you have come to the right place!
Ingredients
750g Exotic Tomato Mix
150g Bocconcini* Cheese
30g Fresh Basil
50ml Olive Oil
How to Prepare your Tomato, Bocconcini & Basil Salad
Pre-heat the oven to the highest heat (grill function).
Spread your exotic tomatoes in an oven tray and sprinkle over some salt and fresh ground pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
Put the oven tray in the oven under the grill for about ten minutes, but watch them closely as you don’t want them to burn to inedible stage.
You can also pre-heat a pan with some olive oil and add the tomatoes to that (don’t forget to sprinkle over some salt and fresh ground pepper).
The trick is to leave them undisturbed in the pan for about ten minutes, to get them blistered.
Spread the blistered tomatoes onto your serving plate and top with bocconcini (The literal translation of bocconcini from Italia is small mouthful. They are small mozzarella balls and delicious).
Pull off the fresh basil leaves and spread them over the tomato and bocconchini.
Add some more salt and ground pepper over your salad.
Drizzle some olive oil over and you have your irresistible summer salad! Enjoy!
Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
* You can use chopped feta cheese as an alternative to the bocconcini cheese if you wish but for the best flavours bocconcini is best. You can also cut a mozzarella ball into smaller (bite-sized) pieces.
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About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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