Recipe

Italian Bread Salad Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Cookingforfun / All my dishes 1 year, 2 months ago Great salad for any dinner. Perfect for a stand alone dinner. The salad includes the bread. Prep:90m Servings:4	Cookingforf
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Ingredients

2 large ripe tomatoes, cut into bite-size pieces

1 small cucumber, peeled and diced

1 small red onion, thinly sliced

1 clove garlic, very finely minced

1 cup fresh basil leaves, torn into small pieces with your hands

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed

3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar, plus more as needed

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

8 slices thick stale country style Italian bread, torn into bite-size pieces

Directions

In a bowl, combine the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, garlic and basil. Drizzle with the 1/2 cup olive oil and the 3 tbsp vinegar, season with salt and pepper and toss well.

Place half of the bread in a wide, shallow bowl. If the bread is quite stale and dry, you should first spoon a few tbsp of water over the bread and let it soak some of the water up, then with your hands squeeze all of the water out and place bread in a different bowl before proceeding. If it isn't too stale or didn't have any, then you can skip this step.

Spoon half of the tomato mixture over the bread.

Layer the remaining bread on top and then the remaining tomato mixture.

Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour or until serving time.

Just before serving, toss the salad and adjust the seasonings with salt and pepper. At this point the bread should have absorbed the water from the tomatoes and be all moist. If the bread seems dry for some reason, add a little bit of olive oil and toss well.

Serve immediately.

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Comments

boofie 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Yum! Great, fresh, easy. Beautiful pic as well.

linspj 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Arthur...this is the best! It is a meal in itself. It is especially good when the nice fresh garden tomatoes start coming in. ~Lin
P.S> Nice picture

kitchenwitchcooks 1 year, 2 months ago said:
I was brought up on this and we still eat it today! An all time favorite!

chihuahua 1 year, 2 months ago said:
What a lovely salad. I love it.

frodo 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Good salad arther...are you going on a diet?? 5 pts

r8chreid 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Looks good! With that ingredient list you can't go wrong!

binky67 1 year, 2 months ago said:
5 from me!

juels 1 year, 2 months ago said:
This sounds fresh and delicious! Love the ingredients in this, so different! Added this to "bazil world" group, you get all the flags and 555!