If you have unexpected guests or you just need a quick and tasty starter for your dinner, this simple but full of flavour bruschetta will definitetly get you out of trouble. Bruschetta is a very popular Italian starter and it consists of toasted bread, brushed with extravirgin olive oil, usually rubbed with garlic and topped with different vegetables, cheeses or even fish or meat.
Whenever I make a bruschetta I always use ciabatta bread - it has just the perfect crust and texture to absorb all that lovely tomato and olive oil juice flavoured with nothing more than fresh basil, sea salt and freshly grind black pepper.
In order to get a perfect bruschetta, always use good quality extra virgin olive oil - it is rich, just a little bitter but full of flavour and it will just bring out the best of that juicy sweet cherry tomato. And please, please use fresh basil (you'll see, once you will try it, you will never ever buy the dry one) - it's strong, it will spread its flavour all around the kitchen and it will make your bruschetta simply unforgettable!
Yes, it's simple but I will always say that it's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary!
Ingredients (for two persons):
2 small ciabatta loafs
10-12 small cherry tomatoes
2 tablespoons of extravirgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves
6 fresh basil leaves
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
To start, cut the ciabatta loafs lengthways brush them with olive oil and toast them in the oven, or in a non-stick frying pan, or just simply in the toaster until golden and crisp and then rub them with the garlic cloves also cut lengthways.
Cut the tomatoes into small cubes, put them into a bowl, add the olive oil, a pinch of salt to your taste, the chopped basil leaves and some fresh ground black pepper. Mix them all together and leave them to rest for 5-10 minutes.
Spoon a generous amount of the cherry tomato mixture over the ciabatta toast, drizzle some extravirgin olive oil and serve.
Enjoy!
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