Snack "Caprese" or appeared tomatoes with cheese

One of the frequent guests of the festive table in recent years has become an appetizer with tomatoes and garlic. It is interesting in this regard, the fact that there was this snack from one of the national Italian dishes, but not everyone knows about it. So, let's take a closer look with a snack of cheese and tomatoes.

One of the national dishes of Italy is an appetizer with a beautiful name "Caprese". This snack is prepared as follows: in the dish laid diced tomatoes into thin circles, they put sliced mozzarella cheese and all sprinkled with dried or fresh basil and pour dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The national dish of this wonderful appetizer has become due to the fact that the meat in its color scheme repeats colors of the Italian flag - that is so simple and uncomplicated! As for the name, his dish is named after the Italian island of Capri, probably because that is where it was first invented.

The fact that our "tomatoes with cheese and garlic" became Russian variation "Caprese" - obviously. Equally obvious is the answer to the question of why this snack so taken root in our country: it is prepared quickly, from inexpensive simple ingredients, and the result is delicious. Real dream of every housewife in terms of "fast-cheap-delicious."

Of course, like any borrowed dish, this snack has become over time a field for experiments savvy housewives and cook it differently today. What are the options for appetizers with tomatoes and cheese are there?

Classic appetizer recipe with cheese and tomatoes

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Need: 100-150 g of cheese, 4-5 fresh tomatoes, 2 tbsp mayonnaise, 1-2 cloves of garlic.

How to cook appetizer with cheese and garlic. Cheese is better to stand in a refrigerator to rub it on the grate was convenient. Rub the cheese on medium or fine grater, garlic through a press to skip to the cheese, add mayonnaise until smooth mix well. Tomatoes cut into thin circles, put on a platter, top with cooked cheese mixture.

Very often, this snack decorate herbs - dill, parsley and, of course, basil, but some cooks prefer not to limit the presence of greenery just look and add it, chop, right in the cheese-garlic mixture. Different variations won and filling: as it can be used not only mayonnaise, but a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream in a ratio of 1: 1, seasoned with pepper and salt. This sauce can spread the tomatoes without mixing with the cheese, and the cheese is put in grated form already on the sauce on top.

All of the above - the classic options such snacks that use only the basic ingredients. Today, there are variations of "Russian Caprese" with additional ingredients, such as nuts and pepper.

Recipe "caprese" in Russian with pepper and nuts

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You will need: 500 g of medium-sized tomatoes, 100 g of solid cheese, 1 bell pepper, 1 2 all nuts, herbs, garlic, mayonnaise, pepper and salt.

How to cook a snack "caprese" in Russian. If you are using a very small tomatoes (cherry), enough of them cut in half, you have to cut larger tomatoes on mugs and put it on a flat dish. On a coarse grater rub the cheese and mix it with sweet pepper, cut into small cubes, chopped nuts and greens, passed through the press garlic and spices, stir mayonnaise (you can also use sour cream or a mixture thereof), put the cooked weight of tomatoes, garnish on taste.

Adding nuts and pepper - not all variations of this snack. Her witty our hostess came up to do a more interesting way.

Recipe with tomatoes and garlic in the test

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You will need: ready puff pastry, cheese, tomatoes, garlic, dill.

How to cook the tomatoes with cheese and garlic in the test. Cut the tomatoes into quarters or halves, if they are small. Cut into cubes of cheese (use better Suluguni). Strung tomatoes and cheese alternately on skewers, rub the mixture passed through a garlic press with dill and salt, wrap Roll out the dough, zaschipnut edge and bake in the preheated oven or on the grill as barbecue.

Another version of the original snack with tomatoes and garlic - with stuffing.

Prepare the tomatoes are easy: use the same ingredients as in the classical variation, but do not cut the tomatoes, but only slightly their top notch - so that it was possible to remove all the pulp with a spoon. Then nafarshiruyte resulting tomato tins cheese-garlic mixture.

As can be seen, the Italian appetizer "caprese" in our country relished, albeit in a modified form. However, in the classic Italian version, it is found, however, is much less common. Fast, easy and delicious, it allows you to decorate a festive table with a minimum of cost - both financial and time, so you can safely expect new its variations from those chefs who take the time out to "reinvent the wheel".