The Viral Tik Tok Frozen Tomato Burrata Salad
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 10 minutes (plus an hour at room temperature)
Cooking time: 0 minutes
- 150g/5oz burrata
- 150g/5oz baguette, sliced
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 clove garlic, cut in half
- 2 tablespoons aged balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- 1 large tomato, frozen hard
- Basil leaves
Step 1 - Place the burrata in a bowl an hour before serving it. I cut off the knot at the top so that it is a bit easier to open up but make sure not to cut into the burrata and spill the insides. Slice the baguette, rub all over with the cut garlic clove and brush with oil. Grill until toasted.
Step 2 - Drizzle the burrata with aged balsamic vinegar and olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grate the tomato over the burrata with a coarse grater (not a zester). Add basil leaves and serve with the toasted baguette.
Personal Note
While Mr NQN and I still eat meat, we really gravitate towards simple, vegetarian dishes and we eat mostly vegetables with meat as an accompaniment. Our plates would look like 20% meat and the rest as vegetables. This isn't necessarily a new year's thing but something that has happened gradually over a couple of years.
It's easy to convince Mr NQN to eat vegetarian dishes because he grew up eating them. Back then it was much simpler fare - I'm sure I've told of how his mother used to put a cabbage down on the table and each child would peel off a leaf for dinner? This year for Christmas when we had them over I thought of how they used to eat cabbage. As luck would have it, my vege box delivery gave me a hispi cabbage, a conical shaped cabbage (also known as a pointed or sweetheart cabbage) which was perfect for making as a Christmas tree out of. I was inspired by a retro cookbook meme - you know how you see those memes of past atrocities from retro cookbooks using aspic, pineapple and hot dog frankurters? I strung some chives from they garden around the cabbage and some capsicum as baubles. I was so proud of my Elliott friendly creation.
Halfway through the meal I noticed that my cabbage tree sat there uneaten so Mr NQN took the cabbage and peeled a leaf off and ate it. He then passed the cabbage onto everyone else who munched on it as if it were the most normal thing in the world. Even Queen Viv, her son Michael and I got into it although for us, we needed to dip it into the garlic sauce first. However the Elliotts ate the leaf as it was without any adornment. Just like the way it used to be when they were kids, you know the good old (and kinda strange) days...
So tell me Dear Reader, would you try this frozen tomato burrata salad? Would you like cabbage on its own or would you need a sauce?