Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, panzanella. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Panzanella [pantsaˈnɛlla] or panmolle [pamˈmɔlle] is a Tuscan chopped salad of soaked stale bread, onions and tomatoes that is popular in the summer. It often includes cucumbers, sometimes basil and is dressed with olive oil and vinegar. It is also popular in other parts of central Italy.
Panzanella is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Panzanella is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook panzanella using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Panzanella:
- Make ready The best tomatoes you can buy
- Get Cucumber
- Make ready Basil
- Make ready Stale ciabatta bread
- Prepare for the dressing
- Get Olive oil 3 parts
- Prepare Red wine vinegar 1 part
- Get Dijon mustard (opt)
- Get Chilli flakes (opt)
- Prepare Salt and pepper
Panzanella is really a way to use up crusty bread that has gotten hard and to celebrate perfect summer tomatoes. It is a cooling summertime salad that relies on the bread as the "filler" to soak up the juices. Traditional panzanella is made with stale, dried bread that's rehydrated from a dressing of sweet tomato juices, vinegar and plenty of olive oil. This version also includes some mozzarella for richness.
Steps to make Panzanella:
- Slice the bread to about 1 cm thickness, arrange on a tray with olive oil salt and pepper and bake at 200c for about 10 minutes or until nicely golden brown. While the croutons are baking slice up your tomatoes and season with salt and pepper.
- Peel, deseed and slice the cucumber, mix olive oil, vinegar, mustard, chilli flakes and seasoning in a jar and give a vigorous shake. Pick some basil leaves layer them and roll into a cigar and slice with a sharp knife.
- Combine cucumber and basil with the tomatoes which have been seasoned for around 5 minutes to start releasing excess water. Add as much dressing as you like
- Remove croutons from oven and transfer onto a kitchen paper towel to absorb excess oil, while still warm combine with the salad and give a good toss.
- You can leave the salad to sit for a minute or 2 for the bread to absorb the salad juices and dressing, this works well on a large platter for the family to share, either way there is me looking pleased and a final picture. These screen shots are taken from my youtube channel.
Panzanella, the Italian bread and tomato salad, is a great way to use up a stale loaf. How do you stop it being bland or soggy - or do you have a better recipe for bread past its best? Panzanella is an Italian bread salad. Traditional panzanella features cubes of stale bread, plenty of Panzanella Salad Recipe Variations. This salad is flexible, so make it to your liking!
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