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!
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 |
Fist cook the pasta in boiling salty water. |
Strin "al dente", cut 1 or 2 min on the cooking time on the box. Add some oilve oil, so it won't stick. |
Let the pasta cool down at room temperature . |
Meanwhile the pasta is cooling cut the tomatoes in very small pieces, let them lose the water adding some salt. |
Chop the fresh basil leaves and add them with the tomatoes in the pasta (Once the pasta is cold) |
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. |
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. |
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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