Panzanella salad
This salad recipe is based on a traditional dish from the Tuscany region in Italy. Baked ciabatta bread absorbs tomatoes, oil and vinegar and is flavoured with onion and garlic. Then delicious and healthy ingredients including olives, spinach and basil are added and the salad is left for an hour so that the flavours properly marinate.
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Panzanella salad recipe
Serves: 4 persons
Prep time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Ingredients
- 1 ready-to-bake ciabatta loaf
- 1 lb (500g) of ripe plum tomatoes
- 6oz (170g) of baby spinach leaves
- 12 green or black olives
- 12 basil leaves
- 1 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 finely chopped cloves of garlic
- 5 tbsp of olive oil
- 3 tbsp of red wine vinegar
- Salt and pepper
Method
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- Preheat the oven to 400 °F (200 °C).
- Cut the ciabatta bread into 2cm cubes and place onto a baking tray. Bake in the oven for 7 minutes on each side or until golden brown in colour. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
- Cut the tomatoes into wedges and place into a large bowl.
- Add the sliced onion and garlic and mix together.
- Add the baked bread cubes to the bowl.
- Whisk together the olive oil, vinegar and pepper and drizzle over the bread and tomatoes.
- Add the spinach, basil leaves and the olives and toss all of the ingredients together.
- Leave to marinate for 1 hour before serving.
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