Tuscan Bread Salad W/ Tomatoes & Basil

SethSeth Price

ingredients

  • 3 ciabatta loaves
  • 4 1/2 lb ripe, fresh plum tomatoes
  • 2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 4 Tbsp best quality red wine vinegar
  • 5 red peppers
  • 5 yellow peppers
  • 2 red onions sliced lengthwise
  • 1/2 cup capers
  • 2 oz anchovies
  • 4 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed w/ little salt
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • 2 handfuls fresh basil leaves
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 15

directions

preheat oven to 475 cut the bread in rough, thick slices and place on a baking sheet. bake in oven until dry and taosted on the outside, but soft in the center (no more than 5 minutes). Place in a bowl. Take 8 of the tomatoes and, using a blender, puree then into tomato juice, . Mix together a dressing using the tomato juice, half of the oilve oil, the vinegar, crushed garlic, and some salt & pepper. Pour the dressing over the bread , toss until the bread has absorbed all the liquid. Grill peppers whole until blackened all over, then peel, seed, and cut into eights lengthwise. soak capers in 1 Tbsp red wine vinegar Slice remaining tomatoes lengthwise into eights, add the lemon juice to bring out the flavor of the tomatoes. In a lg dish, make a layer of some of the soaked bread, and top with some of all the other ingredients, then cover with another layer of bread, and continue until all the bread and other ingredients have been used up. The final layer should have the peppers, tomatoes, capers, anchovies, red onions, olives & basil all visible. Leave for an hour at room temp before serving with more olive oil.

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