Serves: 2 as a meal and 4 as a starter

Time taken: 20 Mins.

Ingredients:

2 small Mozzarella cheeses

2 Ripe tomatoes of approximately the same size as the cheese

250 gms each of 2 types of sliced meats or cold cuts (like salami and pepperoni)

1 cup each of 1 – 2 types of olives: Italian, Greek or Spanish, green, black, marinated, flavoured, stuffed

1 cup each of 2-4 types of vegetables sticks of cucumber, grilled and roasted sweet peppers, canned artichoke hearts, grilled mushrooms

I large pepper of any color

Olive oil

3 pods of garlic sliced thin

To assemble:

- Gently heat olive oil till hot and add garlic slices. Allow to cool.

- Slice off the top of the pepper and fill with cooled flavoured olive oil.

- Place in the centre of the platter.

- Mentally section off platter into the number of antipasti you have.

- Drain and slice Mozzarella and arrange alternating with slices of ripe skinless tomato on the first part.

- Sprinkle with shredded basil and drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil.

- Across the plate, arrange the sliced meats rolled into cylinders or folded into triangles.

- Beginning with the cheese tomato cup arrange all the vegetable and olives in sections.

- Serve.

Photograph: Rushina Munshaw-Ghildiyal