Panzanella: exquisite Italian country salad

A traditional Italian panzanella salad

This is a traditional salad of the region of Tuscany, now it is prepared throughout Italy. The main ingredients are vegetables: tomatoes, celery, cucumber, onion and Basil. Every family preparing a salad with a few changes, for example, add olives or carrots.





So, the classic version Panzanella:

Ingredients:

• slightly hardened Tuscan bread (2-4 days after baking);
• 4 ripe tomatoes;
• 1 cucumber;
• 1 shallot;
• 2 stalks of celery;
• green Basil leaves;
• olive oil;
• salt, ground black pepper;
• wine vinegar;
• water

Preparation:

1. Wash vegetables and cut into large chunks, as a vegetable salad. Put in a deep bowl.

2. Bread cut into slices and remove the flesh in the salad, use only the crusts (1cm from the pulp). Cut into pieces approximately 1.5 — 2 cm 1.5-2 cm.

3. In a separate bowl to pour water 500 ml and 100 ml of vinegar. Pieces of bread to put in the prepared vinegar water and leave for a minute.

4. Gently squeeze the bread and mix with chopped vegetables ( tomatoes, celery and cucumber), dobaviti porezany onions and Basil leaves.

5. Salad season with olive oil and add a little wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Gently to mix. Put in refrigerator for 2 hours. You can, of course be eaten immediately, but after 2 hours, the salad will become nailuchshaya quality. Bon appetit. Cooking with

 

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