✨ Two menus for entertaining in September
Don’t wait for an opportunity. Create one.
NEW — Menu No. 14
What if you were the one to send out the invitation?
Almost everything is prepared in advance, so you can enjoy your guests’ company as soon as they arrive.
WORTH REDISCOVERING — Menu No. 1
They’re arriving at 7 pm. So am I.
The menu for those days when you really don’t have time.
The ultimate tomato-mozzarella (traditional method & Thermomix)
Description
All my life, I've had an enormous - I'd go so far as to say inordinate - weakness for tomatoes. They are to me what bread is to others: an essential, an obvious, a summer and winter love.
Of course, I never say no to a tomato-mozzarella... but this one? This one is my Holy Grail.
Melt-in-the-mouth burrata, colourful heirloom tomatoes, crunchy pine nuts, and above all - above all! - a basil and garlic vinaigrette that makes the whole dish sing.
Give it a try and let me know if you fall in love too.
A quick reminder: never put your tomatoes in the fridge! They will lose their texture and, above all, their taste.
Ingredients
Instructions
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TRADITIONAL METHOD
Preparation - traditional method
1. Prepare the vinaigrette
Blend the garlic and basil leaves in a blender. Then add the sugar, salt, pepper, white balsamic and olive oil. Blend until the sauce is smooth and fragrant.
2. Roast the cherry tomatoes
Arrange the whole cherry tomatoes on a baking tray. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
➤ Grill for 5 to 8 minutes at 200°C over a fan.
3. Roast the pine nuts
Heat a dry frying pan without fat and fry the pine nuts until lightly coloured. Put to one side.
4. Prepare the tomatoes
Cut the heirloom tomatoes into medium-thick slices (using a mandolin if possible) or into quarters to vary the texture.
5. Dresser
Arrange the tomato slices on a large platter. Place the burrata in the centre. Sprinkle with the roasted pine nuts, salt, pepper and basil leaves.
Drizzle generously with homemade vinaigrette.
➤ The vinaigrette can be kept for up to 2 weeks in the fridge.
THERMOMIX® METHOD
Thermomix variant
1. Vinaigrette with Thermomix
Place the garlic and basil leaves in the bowl.
➤ Mix for 10 sec / speed 8.
Scrape down the sides and add sugar, salt, pepper, white balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
➤ Mix for 15 sec / speed 6.
2. Roasting, roasting, cutting, dressing
➤ Proceed as for the traditional method.
