🇮🇹 Italian Vegetarian

Eggplant Caprese

Name: Eggplant Caprese
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 1/2, thinly sliced Onion; 4 Tomato; 1, juiced Lemon; 250 g Mozzarella Cheese; handful, torn Fresh Basil; 3 tbsp Olive Oil; 2, cubed Eggplant

🇮🇹 Italian

A bright, herb-packed italian salad where eggplant meets a punchy dressing — fresh, loud and addictive. 15 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 0 min Serves 2 Easy

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Onion1/2, thinly sliced
Tomato4
Lemon1, juiced
Mozzarella Cheese250 g
Fresh Basilhandful, torn
Olive Oil3 tbsp
Eggplant2, cubed

Instructions

1
Whisk the lemon juice with the olive oil, salt and pepper for a bright, simple dressing.
2
Prepare the eggplant — slice, shred or cube it so every forkful gets some.
3
Toss the eggplant with the onion, fresh basil and the dressing just before serving.
4
Let it sit 5 minutes so the flavours marry, then taste and add another squeeze of lemon if it needs lift.

Chef's tip

Taste and adjust the salt at the end; sauces concentrate as they reduce.

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