Red Mullet on Baked Salad Caprese with Basil & Olive Oil

Name: Red Mullet on Baked Salad Caprese with Basil & Olive Oil
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 x 175 g (6 oz) red mullet fillets, skin on A small bunch of fresh basil; Salt & freshly ground black pepper; 150 ml (¼ pint, ⅔ cup) extra-virgin olive oil; 8 plum tomatoes, skinned & cut into slices 1 cm (½ in) thick; 2 balls of cow’s milk mozzarella, cut into slices 1 cm (½ in) thick

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Passion for Cheese

By Paul Gayler

Published 1997

About

A simple dish with fresh summer flavours. Caprese is the name given to the famous Italian salad of mozzarella, tomato and basil. Here the tomato and cheese serve as a bed for red mullet, which is scattered liberally with fresh basil leaves. (See the

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Europe
Italy
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Summer

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