Tomato Mozzarella Appetizer
An easy Italian appetizer that pleases also children. The idea is to serve bread, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and olives…in a stick. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Ingredients
- 20 pcscherry tomatoes
- 20 pcsOlives (pitted)
- 20 pcsMozzarella Cherries
- 20 pcsFresh Bay Leaf
- 0 pcsbread to have 20 small cubes
- 1 pcsGarlic Cloves
- 1 pincha pinch of red pepper (peperoncino)
- 0 to TasteFine Sea Salt
- 5 tbspExtra Virgin Olive Oil
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F.
- 2
Cut the bread in cubes.
- 3
Put the bread into the oven to roast a little.
- 4
In a plate, put 3 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of oregano, a pinch of red pepper, a garlic clove thinly minced and salt.
- 5
Pass the bread cubes, still hot from the oven, onto this mixture.
- 6
Take long sticks and insert a cherry tomato, a basil leaf, a mozzarella cherry, an olive and a piece of bread and repeat.
- 7
Place the sticks onto an oven tray covered with parchment paper.
- 8
Add a thread of extra virgin olive oil on the sticks and put them in hot oven for a few minutes (pay attention or the mozzarella will melt) and serve immediately.
- 9
Buon appetito!