PANZANELLA

This is my version of an Italian Panzanella salad - some recipes call for sliced red onion and capsicum also, feel free to add if you want... but I just made it today with the ingredients I had! Dress the salad up to an hour before serving to let all the flavours soak into the bread. Also fab with pieces of left over roast chicken or torn mozzarella pieces mixed through.

• Tomatoes
• Telegraph cucumber
• ILIADA Kalamata Olives
• Stale ciabatta or french stick  
• ILIADA Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Messino red wine vinegar
• S & P
• 1/2 clove garlic crushed
• Fresh basil leaves to serve

Cut tomatoes into quarters and place into a salad bowl. 
Peel the cucumber, cut lengthways, and remove the seeds with a teaspoon. Cut the cucumber into 1 cm slices and add to the tomatoes. Throw in a handful of olives and toss to mix.

Heat a small pool of olive oil in a pan on medium high, and while it heats cut the stale bread roughly into 1cm cubes. Toss the cubes in the heated olive oil and fry until golden all over. Leave to cool then scatter them over the tomatoes, cucumber and olives.
Mix 4 TBLSPN olive oil, 1 TBLSPN red wine vinegar, pinch of salt, a few grounds of black pepper and garlic in a screw top jar, dress and toss through the salad. Leave to sit covered at room temperature for up to an hour (don't refrigerate)
Scatter with a few basil leaves to serve.
Delissimo!