PANZANELLA - ITALIAN BREAD SALAD has crusty bread, tomatoes, red onions, cucumber, Italian basil

Panzanella is Tuscan salad made of chunky of lightly toasted crusty bread, tomatoes, red onions, cucumber, Italian basil all soaked in the simplest salad dressing.

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Sweating tomatoes, resting time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4-5 servings

Ingredients

▢1 day old crusty ‘stale’ bread about 4-5 cups of stale bread broken into 1 inch chunks
▢3 ripe juicy tomatoes cut into small wedges or cubes
▢1 teaspoon kosher salt
▢1 small red onion sliced thin
▢2 cucumbers unpeeled, seeded, cut into ½ inch slices
▢1 cup basil

For salad dressing-
▢2 tablespoon white wine vinegar or red wine vinegar
▢1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
▢¾ cup extra virgin olive oil
▢1 ½ teaspoon garlic minced

Instructions:

1. Pick best quality juicy ripe tomatoes. Slice into thin wedges or cut into small cubes.

2. Salt cut tomatoes with kosher salt. Toss well. Let tomatoes sit in colander with a bowl under it to collect all the wonderful tomato juice.

3. Allow tomatoes to drain the juices for minimum 15 minutes to maximum an hour.

4. Meanwhile prep other ingredients.

5. Slice red onions.

6. Cut ends of cucumber, peel the seeds using melon baller or spoon. Cut cucumber into ½ inch slices. If you don’t like the skin on cucumber feel free to peel the skin.

7. Cut bread into 1 inch chunks. Toast bread in olive oil until lightly browned on all sides. You can toast bread chunks in oven or air fryer too.

8. To the tomato juice that was drained add white wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, minced garlic, salt and pepper to taste, extra virgin olive oil.

9. Whisk well.

10. Gather all salad ingredients into a large salad bowl- drained tomatoes, sliced onion, sliced cucumber, toasted bread and fresh basil leaves.

11. Pour the dressing over the salad.

12. Toss well.

13. Let sit for minimum 5 minutes to maximum 1 hour so salad marinates and sucks all the flavors and juices.

14. Enjoy with grilled chicken, BBQ chicken, shrimps.

DETAILED RECIPE LINK: https://www.currytrail.in/panzanella-salad/

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