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One Pan Caprese Pasta

Published on September 16, 2014, Updated November 6, 2018 by Kristin Maxwell | 21 Comments

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This easy to make One Pan Caprese Pasta is perfect as a light and fresh main course or as a delicious side dish to your favorite meal.

One Pan Caprese Pasta - This is so good!!!

This Caprese Pasta is light and fresh and has the savory flavors of the classic appetizer you love, with sweet grape tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese and fresh basil leaves. The aroma of the basil and tomatoes as it’s cooking is just heavenly!

This beautiful dish is surprisingly easy to make, and I love that the colors feel like Christmas. (Especially since it’s currently 95 degrees at 7 pm). Wouldn’t this be a great Christmas side dish?

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Here are the tools you will need:

  • 12″ Stainless Steel Pan
  • A sharp knife
  • Cutting Board

Start by cooking some onion in a little olive oil. Add dry pasta – I love the larger Rigatoni with this dish, but any smaller pasta will do – fresh basil leaves, garlic and sliced grape tomatoes. Pour water or chicken broth over the pasta and give it a good stir.

Bring the mixture to a boil, then turn down the heat and cover it up, letting the pasta cook and absorb the flavors for about ten minutes. Then remove the cover and crank up the heat, letting the remaining liquid reduce down for about seven minutes or so.

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Once the pasta is cooked just right, remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle on some cubed mozzarella cheese. You could certainly use shredded mozzarella, I just prefer to have these nice chunks of melted cheese throughout the pasta. The fresh cheese melts much better than the pre-shredded. You might want to remove those cooked basil leaves, too.

Cover the pan and let the pasta rest and the cheese melt for about ten minutes. Top with a sprinkling of Balsamic Vinegar (my favorite part!) and chopped basil leaves and serve hot.

One Pan Caprese Pasta

One Pan Caprese Pasta

Kristin
4.67 from 3 votes
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Servings 4 main dish servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup diced white onion
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 1/2 cups dry pasta
  • 1 package of grape tomatoes sliced in half
  • 5 fresh whole basil leaves
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 2 1/2 cups water
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp fresh cracked black pepper
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh diced Mozzarella (about 8 oz)
  • 2 tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar
  • Chopped basil leaves for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Preheat a 12 inch skillet or saute pan with 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add onions and cook until soft.
  • Add dry pasta, sliced tomatoes, fresh whole basil leaves, garlic, water, salt and pepper. Stir together to combine.
  • Bring pasta mixture to a boil. Continue to cook pasta over medium heat, stirring often, until pasta is cooked and the liquid is reduced; about ten minutes.
  • Top evenly with mozzarella cubes and cover the pan so the cheese can melt.
  • Sprinkle with Balsamic vinegar and chopped basil for garnish.
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  1. carol says

    July 22, 2020 at 8:28 am

    i’ve made this a few times now and it’s always a hit! the balsamic vinegar adds that sharp flavour that makes this dish stand out. also, no complains from me about only having to wash a single pan 😀

    Reply
    • Kristin says

      July 22, 2020 at 9:08 am

      Nice! Thanks for stopping by Carol.

      Reply
  2. Samantha says

    June 10, 2020 at 6:21 am

    I made this last night with my little sister. I used fresh basil from my vertical herb garden. The only problem was that the water didn’t evaporize so it was a little bit watery. But overall GREAT DISH!

    Reply
    • Kristin says

      June 11, 2020 at 10:35 am

      Thank you Samantha!

      Reply
  3. Rachel French says

    July 31, 2019 at 9:36 am

    My family adored this meal, even my picky kids!

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    • Kristin says

      August 1, 2019 at 8:23 pm

      Nice! Thank you so much for the positive feedback.

      Reply
  4. Susan Daniel says

    August 21, 2018 at 10:42 am

    I made this last night. It was fantastic! I was concerned the 2 Tbsp of balsamic vinegar would overpower the dish, but it was amazing! We used grape tomatoes from our garden. Will definitely be making this again! Thank you!

    Reply
  5. Dave says

    February 9, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    This was incredibly wonderful! I can’t wait to make it again! Simple, easy, quick, delicious. You can have it all.

    Reply
  6. ski says

    September 5, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    when i click the one pan link, nothing appears except an image w/ the heading one pot pasta and then when you click , it’s the same image on another page.

    Reply
  7. Margo says

    February 19, 2015 at 10:58 am

    I am totally making this dish this weekend!
    Is that garlic in the “before” picture – or are they onions diced really tiny?

    Reply
  8. Andrea says

    January 3, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    I made this last night and the flavor was delicious! However… We did have a problem getting the cheese to be creamy. It ended up being stringy and was hard to eat. Any suggestions on how to get the cheese to melt a little better, or another cheese to use? I don’t want to change it too much because it was so tasty!

    Reply
    • Charlie says

      January 21, 2015 at 5:50 pm

      Did you use part skim mozzarella? The fresh stuff or the kind that comes in a ball from the deli won’t stretch so much..

      Reply
  9. Bridgett says

    November 13, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    Yummy! We made this tonight, and it was great. It was almost too cheesy, but then we realized there’s no such thing as too cheesy.

    Reply
  10. Sarah says

    November 2, 2014 at 4:38 am

    This looks delicious! About how much is each serving? 1 cup?

    Reply
  11. Christine says

    September 18, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    OMG! Looks absolutely fabulous! Will definately try this! Thanks for sharing!!!!

    Reply
  12. Melanie @ Carmel Moments says

    September 17, 2014 at 8:31 am

    That looks amazing! I love everthing caprese. Even made a caprese pull apart bread this year. Mmmm.
    Tomatoes and mozzarella are such a great combo.

    Pinned!
    Have a beautiful day Kristin!

    Reply
    • Kristin says

      September 17, 2014 at 2:48 pm

      Thanks so much Melanie!

      Reply
  13. Christine at Cook the Story says

    September 17, 2014 at 8:24 am

    There’s not a whole lot better than only having to wash ONE pan! This looks awesome!

    Reply
    • Kristin says

      September 17, 2014 at 2:49 pm

      Thanks Christine!

      Reply
  14. Megan @ Our Pinteresting Family says

    September 16, 2014 at 4:43 am

    Looks absolutely delicious!

    Reply
    • Kristin says

      September 16, 2014 at 10:40 am

      Thanks Megan!

      Reply

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