Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Easy Caprese Salad

Easy Caprese Salad

I'm always on the lookout for great recipes that are easy & convenient. After looking at some ingredients I had on hand the other day, I came up with this idea to make an Easy Caprese Salad.  It only took a few minutes (which is very important in my home with 2 little ones) and it tasted delicious.  

A traditional Caprese Salad is usually made up of slices or balls of mozzarella cheese, basil and fresh sliced tomatos. 

I wanted to use my Caprese salad as a complete meal, so I added pasta & baby spinach.  This time, I used Ronzoni Smart Taste Spiral pasta this time, but have also used whole wheat pasta with success. Then, I simply used baby spinach & basil leaves as my base, put one serving of pasta on top, sliced some small grape tomatos (that's what I had on hand) and sliced up some reduced fat low moisture mozzarella string cheese.  I lightly coated the pasta in Kraft's Fat Free Zesty Italian. 

It was SO good & fresh tasting, I just wanted to share.

Hope you enjoy. If you have some quick and easy meals that take minutes, using fresh ingredients, I'd love to know about them.

3 comments:

René said...

Yummy! I'm always looking for a new pasta idea. Thanks for leaving the sweet comment on my blog!

CraftyBrit said...

Hi there, Brittney from Brittney's Budget Crafts, I'm giving you the Versatile Blog award. Check it out at http://brittneysbudgetcrafts.blogspot.com/

Allison said...

YUM! That sounds like such a wonderful dinner for a hot summer day! I'll give it a try ...

Thanks for visiting my blog!
your latest follower,
Allison