Mozzarella with Olive Oil

Mozzarella o Burrata con Olio d’Oliva

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio's Southern Italian Feast: More Than 100 Recipes Inspired by the Flavour of Southern Italy

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1998

  • About

Mozzarella cheese is so versatile that, together with Parmesan, it virtually symbolizes dairy Italy. Besides being used in many cooked dishes, it is eaten both as an antipasto and after a meal as the cheese course. The best is made with buffalo’s milk, and comes from the South. One delicious variation of mozzarella is burrata, from Puglia, which has a strong, elastic outer skin containing a mixture of cream and soft filaments of cheese. While mozzarella keeps for a few days, <