What can I do with fresh Burrata?

[hungryinmanhattan]

I saw a cheese show and learned about Burrata. I love Mozzarella and ricotta, so bought some Burrata at my cheese monger. Can anyone tell me how to use it besides on crostini? I am a good cook so I am open to all suggestions.

[Cakegirl]

It's fantastic with prosciutto and some fresh basil leaves...

[Underdog Rally]

My favourite use is as the centrepiece to a platter with strawberries (or other berries) drizzled with a bit of balsamic.

[erica]

Here is an interesting recipe. You can probably find friselle but can easily leave out the nduja. If you cannot find the friselle in an Italian market, swap bread, as the author did:

http://www.italianfoodforever.com/iff...

[sandylc]

I had a blob of it recently on a baby greens salad with a great vinaigrette.

[HillJ]

We puree roasted peppers and prepare fresh basil pesto and decorate a platter with half the pesto and half the peppers, placing the sliced fresh Burrata down the middle of the plate. Then a light hand of olivie oil over the sliecs, a crack of black pepper. Then set up another platter of Italian bread with sliced olives, sliced onion and pickled veggies. We build a crostini and enjoy.

[hungryinmanhattan]

Thank you all for your replies. Much appreciated. Made pizza dough and fresh cherry tomato sauce. We will try the pizza idea. The fig idea sounds great also. I welcome all your ideas.

[hungryinmanhattan]

Update: When I bought the Burrata I also bought Ricotta Salata. I made pizza dough and topped the pizza with the cherry tomato sauce (very sweet but a lot of skins. Should have passed through food mill), topped with mozzarella, the burrata, and crumbled ricotta salata. The burrata was wonderful with the slightly stringy mozzarella but the Ricotta Salata was not so wonderful. It stayed in hard-ish small cubes. Not terrible, just maybe the wrong use for Ricotta Salata. At the risk of being a nuisance, what dishes do you use Ricotta Salata in?

[biondanonima]

Ricotta salata is generally used as a grating cheese - it's firm and salty. I wouldn't say it's a perfect substitute for parm or pecorino, but you can use it where you'd use any grana-type grating cheese. I like it just in chunks on crackers or with salumi, too.

BTW, for me there is only one way to eat burrata - with a spoon! :)

[hungryinmanhattan]

The burrata was so wonderful- like a cross between ricotta and mozzarella. Next time I will go for raw in uses suggested above.

[luciaannek]

It's supposed to be good with fruit, especially figs. I'd eat it on bread with some fresh fruit, or high quality fruit preserves. (salt, olive oil, black pepper all welcome.)
I haven't heard of people really cooking with it. Mostly serving it with accompaniments and eating it cold.

[Delucacheesemonger]

Used to make a pizza, when almost finished plop the burrata on top and bake a minute or so more.

[thimes]

I agree with everyone else so far.

Take the ball of burrata and sprinkle it with salt, pepper, a good olive oil (sometimes I will place the ball on a bed of pesto), get a spreader and some good bread and eat away. That is my favorite way to eat it. And it should be eaten soon after purchase (soon after production for that matter).

You can really use it in anything that you would use fresh mozzarella but I find it more "milky" and delicate in flavor so don't like to use it in many cooked variations. I think cooking it mutes what I like about it most.

You could do a simple pesto pasta and break it up on top of each serving as well. That would be tasty.

[rabaja]

It's wonderful with a tomato salad. Finely chopped shallots, good oil and vinegar, some basil and S&P, let the tomatoes sit in that a bit and then plate it up with some thick pieces of cheese. Bread for swiping.
Whatever you do, use it quickly. It's highly perishable and you can easily lose that fresh, mild flavor.

[hungryjoanne]

fresh tomatoes, basil, a drizzle of good olive oil, some fresh bread... sounds like heaven to me.
I think that for the lovely and delicate taste of fresh burrata, you need to do very little other than supply a (very) few ingredients to let it shine. Enjoy!!!