Vegetarian Dishes

Panzanella: Tuscan Bread Salad

The secret to a simple recipe are few, but high-quality products. This is also true for a typical Tuscan summer dish: Panzanella – bread salad.

Ingredients for the Italian bread salad Panzanella

Information for 2-3 persons

• 4 slices of day old white bread, non-salted
• About 4 ripe tomatoes
• 1 medium-sized cucumber
• 1 large red onion
• 2 Handfuls Of Basil
• Olive oil
• Wine white wine vinegar
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Salt

Preparation:

The chef in the Restaurant Voronoi in Pistoia, Italy.

The white bread, one to two days old, cut into cubes and place in a bowl with ca 200 ml of water and 6 tablespoons of white wine soak vinegar. For about 10 minutes. Thereafter, the water from the soaked bread presses. Tomatoes and onions cut small. The cucumber at the Ends cut off, and the leaking acid on the cut Ends to wipe, then the Inside of the cucumber to remove. Also, the cucumber is cut into cubes. Then the ingredients are mixed with the bread and to taste with olive oil, salt and pepper. Finally the Basil leaves. With a Chianti and the Montalbano serve.

Good Appetite!