Caprese Ultimo

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 large ripe tomatoes
• 1 fresh mozzarella ball
• 1 small red bell pepper
• 1 small yellow pepper
• 8 -10 basil leaves
• 10 -15 green beans (ends trimmed)
• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• sea salt
• balsamic vinegar or balsamic vinegar, reduction

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat oven to 400.
• 2 cut peppers into 1" wide strips.
• 3 put 2 tblspns olive oil in a pyrex baking dish and lay out the pepper strips skin side up in the dish.
• 4 roast peppers in oven for 25-30 minutes or until skins start to loosen or brown.
• 5 put 6 tblspns olive oil in a deep 12" frying pan and heat until oil starts to move.
• 6 put garlic in oil, stir once and immediately remove from heat. the garlic should be flash fried brown, do not burn.
• 7 remove garlic from oil and set aside.
• 8 return oil to heat and add string beans and fry for about 1 minute or until just tender.
• 9 remove beans and set aside.
• 10 remove oil from pan and set aside to cool.
• 11 remove peppers from oven and set aside to cool to room temperature.
• 12 slice tomatoes and mozzarella into 1/2 inch rounds.
• 13 arrange tomatoes on a dinner plate and top each round with a basil leaf and a mozzarella round.
• 14 arrange beans and pepper strips on plate and sprinkle all with sea salt to taste.
• 15 pour cooled olive oil over tomato stacks and dab each stack with balsamic.
• 16 put a small amount of the flash fried garlic on top of each tomato stack.
• 17 serve with scampi, salmon fillet or a steak.
• 18 mangiare! (no i'm not italian but the words enhance the experience).