Catalan Toast
Catalan Toast with Tomatoes: Manchego cheese and Serrano ham crown this Spanish snack!
Ingredients
- 250 g tomatoes (4 tomatoes)
- Pepper
- 500 g crusty bread with rye (about 22 cm diameter)
- 3 Garlic cloves
- 100 g Serrano ham
- 125 g Manchego cheese
- olive oil
- coarse Sea salt
Instructions
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1.
Wash the tomatoes, cut off the stem ends in a wedge shape. Slice the tomatoes and then mash them into a coarse purée. Place in a bowl and season with a little pepper.
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2.
Slice the bread into 12 pieces and place on a baking rack. Toast each side under the hot oven grill until golden brown; this takes about 1½ to 2½ minutes per side, depending on desired browning.
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3.
Peel the garlic and rub one side of each bread slice with it. Add the unpeeled garlic pieces to the tomato purée.
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4.
Slice the Serrano ham into thin strips. Shave the Manchego cheese with a vegetable peeler.
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5.
Arrange the bread slices, tomato purée, olive oil, sea salt, cheese, and ham decoratively on a platter. When serving, guests take some tomato purée onto a slice of bread, drizzle with olive oil, season with a pinch of salt, and then add cheese or ham as desired.
