Grab a baguette, your best bottle of olive oil and ripe tomatoes for this no-fuss Spanish appetizer. Thinly sliced white cheese, cured ham and olives are optional.
Ingredients
- 1 6-8″ baguette, sliced into ovals
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 small or 1 large ripe tomato
- coarse sea salt
- Optional
- manchego (or any mild white) cheese
- thinly sliced ham or prosciutto
- pitted olives
Instructions
- Heat oven to 500 F.
- Place baguette slices on a baking sheet.
- Rub both sides of bread with garlic clove and drizzle one side with olive oil.
- Toast bread 8-10 minutes until lightly browned.
- Cut a shallow X into the top of tomatoes.
- Blanch tomatoes in salted, boiling water for 30 seconds, then rinse in cool water.
- Once cool, peel tomatoes and cut out cores.
- Grate tomatoes into a bowl and add salt to taste.
- Spoon tomato pulp onto toast and serve with optional cheese, ham and olives.
Notes
Adapted from Saveur, Spanish Style Toast with Tomato
Find it online: https://diginwithdana.com/2015/05/pan-con-tomate.html