Tips for Preparing a Tomato Basil Salad

Series Summary

Are you getting tired of the same old recipes, recycled year after year, with only a few minor changes to spice things up? Have you tried pulling things from magazines, only to find that you can’t seem to get the dish to come together properly? Are you searching for some healthy and delicious recipes to make for your strict vegetarian diet? Do you wish there was an easier way to be creative in the kitchen? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this vegetarian salad recipe might just be for you.

In this free video series, learn how to make a delicious tomato mozzarella salad. Our expert, Richard Buccola, shows you everything you need to know to make this delicious dish. Richard shows you how to cut the tomatoes and cheese for the salad. He gives you tips for buying the best kind of tomatoes. Learn how to season and add olive oil to a salad. So, if you are looking for something different yet tasty, take some time and learn this easy recipe today!

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Rich Buccola here in NYC and today on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make mozzarella tomato and basil, beautiful. Today I'm going to tell you about a quick easy salad fresh, beautiful from the garden. I'm going to show you why it's important to get beautiful tomatoes and fresh basil, it's a must with this. This is actually from my basil plant and basically this is just a real nice salad that everyone can have, you can have it plattered. I'm going to show you how to put it on a platter today so it's just out with some of the other stuff like I do here on Expert Village where I'm doing stuff for when friends are coming over. Where you have your little appetizers and your little food for them greeting food I call it. When they come in you hand them a glass of wine, this is really nice and it goes great with wine red wine, white wine either one it's even great with a beer. It's so simple and it's just so easy to do so when I come back I'm going to show you the ingredients, I'm going to show you how to put it together. I'm going to show you the utensils you need and of course we are going to eat it and storage. When I come back it's tomato mozzarella and basil salad here on Expert Village."