Burrata Salad • Delicious Burrata Recipe • Two Purple Figs

This Burrata Salad is one of our favorite Burrata recipes of all time! It’s so crisp, refreshing and the burrata cheese adds the final divine touch and creamy texture to the humble salad! No matter how busy you are, you can whip up a burrata salad recipe like this and feel like you’re at a fancy resto! I made a quick video below to see how fun this recipes comes together.

Have you had Burrata Cheese before? We absolutely can’t get enough of it! I love it on salads all summer long, and so I’m sharing today’s burrata salad recipe. But it’s perfect on pasta like I shared in this Burrata Pasta, and it’s great on Pizza too!! 

 

If you’re new to Burrata Cheese, please read that post where we explain everything about what is burrata cheese, how to eat burrata cheese and so much more! In brief, it’s a ball of fresh mozzarella with a creamy filling of cream and curd. An out of this world combo!

There are so many ways to use Burrata, so today it’s about summer fresh salads!

Burrata Salad

Since Burrata cheese is ideally not for melting or cooking, the salad recipe benefits the most from Burrata Cheeese. This recipe is very forgiving and so easily personalized to your taste.

The combo of fresh crisp salad ingredients with the creamy burrata on top makes this a life changing salad recipe!! Burrata salad recipes are usually quite filing and nutritious so depending on your diet, you can make it a main dish. At the same time, this recipe makes a great side dish to any BBQ or main.

Burrata Salad Ingredients

• Burrata Cheese— Our hero ingredient here! Make sure you buy fresh and always check the best before date with Burrata Cheese as it doesn’t last too long. 

• Olive Oil — I love quality Moroccan olive oil like Mina (single sourced, delicious and traceable)

• Fresh Figs –sweet and fruity! Peaches are a great alternative for a Peach Burrata Salad! Tomatoes too!
• Radishes — great crunch and taste
• Greens— you can use your favorite greens, I used arugula only.

• Croutons — I use my recipe from the Caprese Salad recipe.
• Fresh herbs — such as basil mixed in the greens
• Olives –Any type works black or green, I used green Moroccan olives.

Make Burrata Salad Recipe

The very first step and layer to the burrata salad is the greens. I used arugula which I mixed with some fresh herbs such as basil and thyme. You can use salad greens or lettuce or even just fresh basil if you have an abundance of it growing in your garden! 

A small drizzle of the balsamic dressing over the greens is KEY to a tasty salad! This step flavors the greens which are the base and bottom layer of any salad and often missing flavor. More on the dressing below.

Right over the greens, you’ll add in the fruits. I used fresh figs today since I found some juicy, ripe and delicious figs at the store. Peaches would work great, or just some sweet tomatoes.

At this point you’ll add in your favorite remaining salad ingredients. I added croutons because they’re hearty and crunchy–which I love in my salads! I also added radishes and green olives. Both those Mediterranean ingredients go really well with Burrata!

The icing on the cake–it’s time to place your ball of fresh burrata cheese over the salad. It’s usually served who or cut up into chunks as you’ll see below and in the video. Choose your favorite way to serve this and go ahead! 

Finish off with the sweet dressing and your burrata salad recipe is ready! Dressing recipe below.

Burrata Salad Dressing

You’ll need a saucer or a bowl, a whisk and those ingredients:

• Quality Moroccan Olive oil
• fresh herbs (basil and thyme )
• Shallots minced
• Balsamic glaze or balsamic vinegar
• salt

Mixed together in a small bowl and you got a sweet, tasty, fresh and AMAZING balsamic dressing that goes well with so many salads!

Serve Burrata Salad

Your recipe is not ready to serve! You can have the salad as is with the ball of burrata cheese on top, or you can use a knofe and cut the cheese into four quarters like below.

When cutting burrata cheese, you need to use a really sharp knife and be super careful. The cheese ball exterior is firm, however the inside of the cheese is a blend of cream and curd, so it will start oozing as you cut through the cheese.

And there you have it! Perfect Burrata Cheese Salad –ENJOY!!

Burrata Salad Tips & Variations

• Make sure you buy fresh burrata cheese, always look for the expiry date and manufacturing date.
• Burrata Cheese comes in a smaller mini size too which is called Burratini, you may use the smaller one if you’re just new to the taste. Alternatively you can use two burratini’s.
• It’s best to serve the salad and burrata cheese cold so make sure your ingredients are ready for assembly.
• The dressing can be made and stores in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
• If making ahead of time, make sure no to dress or cut up the burrata cheese so that it doesn’t leak the cream and makes a soggy salad.
• Once cut up, it’s best to serve the salad recipe right away!

Peach Burrata Salad

This delicious summery version is made by swapping the fresh sweet figs fresh sweet peaches. Use the same dressing.

Do you eat the outer skin of burrata?

YES!! The outer skin of burrata is made of delicious mozzarella cheese.

Can we freeze burrata?

It’s best not to freeze burrata cheese because it will change in consistency and loose it’s uniqueness.

Can you keep cut burrata?

Once cut, burrata cheese needs to be eaten right away to enjoy the full creamy inside of the cheese.

Do you drain burrata?

Yes! Burrata doesn’t come in brine, but rather in water and so it has to be drained.