How To Make Panzanella Bread Salad
Panzanella Bread Salad Recipe. Panzanella, a Tuscan-style bread salad, is colourful, tasty and easy to make. A great alternative to your normal, boring green salad. Enjoy our Panzanella Bread Salad recipe.
Step 2: Prepare the bread
Using your hands, tear the bread into big chunks and place them into the large bowl.
Step 3: Prepare the tomatoes
Core the tomatoes and roughly dice them. Transfer them into the bowl of bread and season with salt.
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Seasoning with salt encourages the release of the juice.
Step 4: Add the oil and vinegar
Pour the olive oil into bowl of bread and tomatoes, add the vinegar and mix.
Step 5: Prepare the onion
Finely slice the onion and add to the bowl with the bread and tomatoes.
Step 6: Prepare the green pepper
Cut the stalk ends off and cut in half lengthways. Remove the seeds and finely slice into half rings. Finally, add to the bowl with the rest of ingredients.
Step 7: Cut the cucumber
Using your potato peeler, peel the skin off the cucumber. Then slice lengthways into halves and quarter the slices. Cut into chunks approximately 1.5cm and transfer into the bowl of ingredients.
Step 8: Add the garlic
Using your large knife, slice and chop the garlic very finely and add to the bowl of ingredients.
Step 9: Prepare the basil
Strip the leaves off the basil stalks and then tear them in half. Add the leaves to bowl of ingredients, sprinkling them over the top.
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Basil should always be torn or snipped as it bruises very easily.
Step 10: Combine the ingredients
Season the ingredients generously with black pepper, add the black olives and using your hands, mix the ingredients together well. Finally, drizzle over some more olive oil.
Step 11: Serve
The salad is now ready. Serve with nice glass of Italian Chianti.
