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Dinner · 8 min · 2 as a starter

Caprese

Only worth making in tomato season. Salt the slices on the board first, tear the mozzarella rather than slicing it, and the oil goes on last.

The sheet · 2 as a starter · 8 min

easy

Why tonight. Only worth making in tomato season. Salt the slices on the board first, tear the mozzarella rather than slicing it, and the oil goes on last.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • tomato
  • mozzarella
  • basil
  • olive oil

Method

  1. Only in tomato season. Out of season this is a plate of cold water and rubber, and no amount of good oil fixes it.
  2. Slice tomatoes thick, salt them, and let them sit five minutes on the board so they weep and season themselves.
  3. Alternate with torn mozzarella — torn, not sliced, so the ragged edges hold oil.
  4. Olive oil last, over everything, and basil torn by hand. A knife bruises basil black at the cut.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
mozzarella
Stretch and mildness. Fresh mozzarella is wet and will make anything baked soggy unless it is drained and torn; the low-moisture kind melts better and tastes of less.
basil
Perfume rather than flavor, and heat destroys it.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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