Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, orecchiette with tomato and burrata cheese. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The burrata and the tomatoes should be at room temperature, so give the burrata at least an hour out the fridge. If you can't find fresh orecchiette, use any fresh short pasta shape you like. Burrata is a type of mozzarella made in Puglia in southern Italy, with extra cream added to the centre of the cheese. It melts beautifully into hot pasta.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook orecchiette with tomato and burrata cheese using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Orecchiette with tomato and burrata cheese:
- Take 400 g orecchiette pasta
- Get 2 small burrata
- Make ready 1 small onion
- Get 1 tin tomato pulp
- Prepare Basil
- Make ready Oil
- Take Cheese
Add the passata, salt and basil leaves and bring to a boil. Rossella Rago and Nonna Romana are making homemade orecchiette pasta with tomato sauce and burrata. This dish is not traditional whatsoever and is a blend of both Northern and Southern Italian cuisine. Orecchiette and burrata originate from the Puglia region and pesto is a Genovese sauce BUT, they go together perfectly.
Steps to make Orecchiette with tomato and burrata cheese:
- Start with the tomato and onion sauce. Slice the onion, soften them in the olive oil and then add the tinned tomatoes with a quarter of a glass of water and a pinch of salt. Cook gently for about 20 min.
- Slice the basil and add it just a couple of minutes before the tomato sauce is cooked. Add the tomato sauce to the pasta, add some parmesan cheese and mix together.
- Plate the pasta up and put on the top half of the burrata cheese and garnish with a basil leaf.
This dish is not traditional whatsoever and is a blend of both Northern and Southern Italian cuisine. Orecchiette and burrata originate from the Puglia region and pesto is a Genovese sauce BUT, they go together perfectly. The orecchiette shape is great for pesto because it creates a little nook for the sauce. The pasta teams with burrata cheese, almond pesto and roasted cherry tomatoes spiked with oregano. It's especially beautiful when both red and yellow varieties of cherry tomatoes are utilized.
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