Thursday, 7 July 2011

TOASTY

Crostinis are a welcome addition to my limited cooking repertoire. They're so fresh and you get so much more taste and flavour out of them than you would expect, considering how quick and easy they are to make. If you can toast bread, you can make crostinis. I would say that the most important thing is to buy good quality ingredients. This is a very simple dish and all the ingredients rely on their raw talent. SO buy tasty tomatoes. That is the key.











You will need:

As many fancy vine tomatoes as you can get your hands on
1 loaf of ciabatta bread
1 clove of garlic
1 lemon
1 ball of buffalo mozzarella
Chilli (I recommend half a chilli, finely chopped)
Plenty of basil
Plenty of olive oil
Sea salt and pepper


Slice the ciabatta and put to one side. Chop the tomatoes and basil, mix together with hands in a bowl, adding olive oil, lemon juice, the finely chopped chilli, salt and pepper. Toast the ciabatta slices on a hot griddle pan. Then, rub them with garlic all over. Press the tomato and basil topping into the toasted bread. Tear mozzarella over the crostinis. Drizzle with olive oil and season to taste.

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