{"id":6997,"date":"2019-01-27T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=6997"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:15:14","slug":"chopped-caprese-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/chopped-caprese-salad.html","title":{"rendered":"KOA Chopped Caprese Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0Caprese Salad is the perfect easy side dish for any meal! Simple, delicious, and healthy! Tomato, Mozzarella,\u00a0Basil, and Balsamic Vinegar. Traditionally, tomato slices are layered on a platter with slices of Mozzarella\u00a0and basil leaves, then sprinkled with oil and vinegar.\u00a0 This salad is way better for a crowd!\u00a0 Like pizza Margherita, it features the colors of the Italian flag: green, white, and red.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 ounces cherry or cherub tomatoes chopped in half<\/li>\n<li>8 ounces whole milk mozzarella cherry sized. Chopped in half or fourths<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c fresh basil chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c good quality balsamic vinegar<\/li>\n<li>2 Tabs honey (if you want to make a balsamic reduction sauce)<\/li>\n<li>salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add the balsamic vinegar and honey to a small saucepan over high heat.<\/li>\n<li>Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer.<\/li>\n<li>Once it&#8217;s reduced by approximately half and thickened to your liking (about 10-15 min), remove from the heat. Be careful it doesn&#8217;t get too thick, but a bit syrupy is good.<\/li>\n<li>Toss all ingredients except for the reduction in a bowl. (Can be made ahead to this point and refrigerate &#8211; just add dressing when serving)<\/li>\n<li>Drizzle with the reduction, adding a little at a time, tossing, tasting, and then adding more to your liking.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> you can also add 1 tablespoon of olive oil if you&#8217;d like the added flavor, but it&#8217;s not necessary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The Cookie Rookie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Caprese Salad is the perfect easy side dish for any meal! Simple, delicious, and healthy! Tomato, Mozzarella,\u00a0Basil, and Balsamic Vinegar. Traditionally, tomato slices are layered on a platter with slices of Mozzarella\u00a0and basil leaves, then sprinkled with oil and vinegar.\u00a0 This salad is way better for a crowd!\u00a0 Like pizza Margherita, it features the colors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/chopped-caprese-salad.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KOA Chopped Caprese Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads-and-salad-dressings","tag-koa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10795,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}