Italian Bread Salad
From cookingforfun 16 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 4
Great salad for any dinner. Perfect for a stand alone dinner. The salad includes the bread.
Ingredients
- 2 large ripe tomatoes, cut into bite-size pieces shopping list
- 1 small cucumber, peeled and diced shopping list
- 1 small red onion, thinly sliced shopping list
- 1 clove garlic, very finely minced shopping list
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves, torn into small pieces with your hands shopping list
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed shopping list
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar, plus more as needed shopping list
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste shopping list
- 8 slices thick stale country style Italian bread, torn into bite-size pieces shopping list
How to make it
- 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.
The Rating
Reviewed by 13 people-
Yum! Great, fresh, easy. Beautiful pic as well.
boofie
in Salt Lake City loved it
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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
linspj
in New Hartford loved it
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What a lovely salad. I love it.
chihuahua
in Sonoma County loved it
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