Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, panzanella. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Panzanella is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Panzanella is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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. In this Barefoot Contessa video, Ina Garten's panzanella salad is a terrific way to use up stale or leftover bread.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook panzanella using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Panzanella:

1. Take The best tomatoes you can buy
2. Take Cucumber
3. Prepare Basil
4. Make ready Stale ciabatta bread
5. Get for the dressing
6. Prepare Olive oil 3 parts
7. Make ready Red wine vinegar 1 part
8. Prepare Dijon mustard (opt)
9. Prepare Chilli flakes (opt)
10. Get Salt and pepper

It is a cooling summertime salad that relies on the bread as the "filler" to soak up the juices. Panzanella is a colorful and hearty Italian salad that puts to good use juicy tomatoes and stale bread. My take on this classic is perfect to prepare ahead! Need a side dish for a summer BBQ?

Steps to make Panzanella:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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 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! 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.

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