PANZANELLA

PANZANELLA

We always discuss about the real ingredients of Panzanella, a very simple Tuscan course. In Florence it is a habit adding cucumber, not in Siena. Celery is admitted but I do not use it.

Ingredients for 6 people:

400gr hard bread

3 tomatoes

3 onions

1 cucumber

Basil

Red vinegar

Olive oil and salt

Cut the bread and put in the water for about 10 minutes. Squeeze well the bread and crumble in a bowl, add chopped onions, salt and vinegar. Let sit for a couple of hours in the fridge. In the meantime prepare a salad using tomatoes, cucumber, basil, olive oil and salt. Before serving mix bread and vegetables.

It is important bread soaked with onion and vinegar would sit in the fridge because onion become sweeter and bread flavour itself.