Italian Bread Salad

Ingredients

• 500 g old Italian white bread
• Salt
• 5 ripe tomatoes
• 1 Red Onion
• 1 cucumber
• 1 untreated lemon (zest)
• olive oil (cold pressed)
• pepper (ground)
• 4 tbsp black olives
• 1 tbsp wine vinegar

Instructions

1. 1.

   Cut the bread into bite-sized pieces and soak in cold water with a pinch of salt. Once well saturated, drain and place in a salad bowl.

2. 2.

   Wash and dice the tomatoes; peel and cut the onion into wedges. Wash the cucumber, halve lengthwise, slice, and add to the bowl.

3. 3.

   Wash the lemon and use a sharp knife to shave very thin zest strips (avoid white pith). Cut these into fine ribbons and add to the salad, or use a zester to scrape zest. Drizzle generously with olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and refrigerate.

4. 4.

   Before serving, add wine vinegar and olives, then toss well.