Description
The perfect sauce to showcase gorgeous summer tomatoes.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/4 Cup extra virgin olive oIl
- 6 Cloves of garlic, thinly sliced.
- 1 small bunch basil leaves
- 2 Tablespoons (about 20g) capers (optional)
- 8 Ripe, in season, tomatoes
- salt & pepper
- red pepper flakes
- 1 Ball fresh mozzarella cut into small chunks
- 1 Box dried pasta
Instructions
- Heat 1/4C olive oil in a pan over low heat.
- Add garlic and capers (if using). Cook slowly, watching to make sure the garlic does not brown for 5 minutes.
- Turn off pan and add basil leaves.
- While oil is cooling, dice tomatoes and place in a container.
- Once oil is cool, pour it over the tomatoes, adding salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to taste.
- Cover and let sit for at least 4 hours.
- When ready to serve, cook pasta according to box instructions, toss with mozzarella chunks and coat with sauce.
Notes
Some similar recipes I have seen, including the one I based this on, say you can marinate your tomatoes for only a few hours. I’m sure you could and it would be fine, but when it comes to tomatoes and oil the flavors really do grow over time. Try making this quickly in the morning or even the night before you plan on serving it.