Summer Caprese Salad With Nectarines

Image by Courtesy of Melissa Mayo

By Melissa Mayo August 9, 2018

Stone Fruit Caprese

I am a huge fan on Caprese salads. It’s pretty hard to beat tomatoes, basil and good mozzarella cheese.

During the hotter months I lean towards simple, fresh salads. At the moment the markets are bursting with summer fruit, so I decided to mix up an old Italian classic.

Instead of tomatoes I am using a variety of stone fruits. Plums, nectarines, apricots, cherries and peaches. You can play around based on what fruit you can find.

It’s critical to use a good creamy burrata cheese to add a luxurious velvety finish. Make sure to use a good quality Italian extra virgin olive oil with fruity notes and sweet and syrupy balsamic vinegar.

Enjoy poolside with a nice cold beer or a glass of vino.

xxx Chef MM

INGREDIENTS

3 nectarines/yellow peaches cut into wedges

3 black plums cut into wedges

4 apricots quartered

8-10 small sour green plums cut into wedges

1 cup of cherries

1 ball of burrata cheese

1 bunch of fresh basil

Coarse salt and black pepper

Good quality Italian olive oil

Thick syrupy balsamic vinegar/glaze

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut the fruit into wedges and arrange on a flat platter. Dot the salad with blobs of creamy burrata cheese.

Just before serving season the salad with coarse salt and black pepper. Garnish with some fresh basil.

Drizzle generously with Italian olive oil and syrupy balsamic vinegar. Serve immediately.

CHEF’S TIP

If you cannot find a balsamic glaze, just bring some balsamic vinegar to a boil in a saucepan and reduce liquid by half till it is thick and syrupy.

SERVES 4-6

Reprinted with permission from Melissa Mayo.

A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

The coming year promises to be filled with more complex and historic developments. We are entering an era where independent, fact-based Jewish journalism will be more important than ever. We need to be ready for whatever 2025 will bring, and with your help, we can be.

We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.

If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO