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Cold Caprese Pasta

very simple recipe medium time servings 6 read the post

Made with few but fresh ingredients, this pasta is the perfect summer dish to bring for a picnic, a lunch on the pool, or simply eaten on your home balcony. Be sure to have very ripe tomatoes and fresh basil leaves; if you can get also a great buffalo mozzarella it would be even better!

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Ingredients

- 320g of pasta (we used farfalle, but shells or penne are fine too)

- 6 ripe tomatoes

- 200g of mozzarella

- 2 or 3 tablespoons of ricotta (optional)

- fresh basil leaves

- olive oil

- juice of half a lemon

- salt

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Fist cook the pasta in boiling salty water.

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Strin "al dente", cut 1 or 2 min on the cooking time on the box. Add some oilve oil, so it won't stick.

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Let the pasta cool down at room temperature

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Meanwhile the pasta is cooling cut the tomatoes in very small pieces, let them lose the water adding some salt.

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Chop the fresh basil leaves and add them with the tomatoes in the pasta (Once the pasta is cold)

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Cut the mozzarella in small pieces and add it in the pasta. It's very important that the pasta is cold cause you don't want the mozzarella to melt.

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Mix everything. Add the ricotta and mix again. The ricotta will create a nice sauce for the pasta, you don't need too much of it.

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Dress with olive oil and lemon juice. If you have time let the pasta in the refrigerator for an hour bevore to serve. Serve cold.

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