Tuscan Bread Salad
- Ready In:
- 51mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
6 cups
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
- 2 red bell peppers, roasted, skinned, and seeded
- 2 yellow bell peppers, roasted, skinned, and seeded
- 2 1⁄2 lbs ripe tomatoes, quartered
- 1⁄3 cup capers, rinsed
- 15 anchovy fillets, roughly chopped
- 1⁄2 red onion, thinly sliced into half rings
- 1⁄2 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 5 garlic cloves, minced finely
- kosher salt
- fresh ground black pepper
- about 8 cups bite-sized pieces of day-old bread, crusts removed
- 2 cups roughly chopped fresh basil
- 1 cup celery leaves
- sea salt
- balsamic vinegar, for drizzle
- extra virgin olive oil, for drizzle
directions
- Cut red and yellow peppers into eighths.
- In a large mixing bowl, toss together with tomatoes, capers, anchovy filets, and red onion. Set aside.
- Whisk together red-wine vinegar, olive oil, and garlic; season to taste with kosher salt and pepper; set dressing aside.
- Place pieces of bread into another bowl. Pour vinaigrette over bread and soak 10 minutes.
- Then add tomato-pepper mixture, basil and celery leaves, and toss together; season to taste with sea salt and more freshly ground black pepper.
- Place in a large bowl and drizzle with balsamic vinegar and olive oil to taste.
- Cook's Note: To roast whole peppers, place under a broiler or atop a barbecue at medium-high heat. Turn peppers every 2-3 minutes, until skin is blackened on all sides. Remove from heat and cool 30 minutes. The blackened skin should then peel easily off the peppers. Discard skin and seeds.
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