📋 Italian Bruschetta Recipe With Mozzarella

This Italian bruschetta recipe with mozzarella is the traditional way Italians eat bruschetta. No Italian barbecue is complete without bruschetta, slices of sourdough bread toasted on the barbecue, or simply grilled in the oven. The toasted bread is rubbed with garlic and drizzled with Italian extra virgin olive oil. For the Summer, we like to top it with mozzarella, tomato, basil, and absolutely NO balsamic vinegar.

Course Starters

Cuisine Italian

Diet Vegetarian

Keyword bbq toast, bruschette, Italian appetizer

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 15

Servings people

Calories 645kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Electric knife optional
Oven pan with grid

Ingredients

1 loaf rustic bread
2 peeled garlic cloves
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 lb fresh tomatoes
½ lb fresh mozzarella
10 Basil leaves
1 pinch salt

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Toast the bread

Cut the bread loaf into regular slices
1 loaf rustic bread
Toast them over the charcoal or in the oven on a grid pan

Prepare the Caprese

Cut the tomato and the mozzarella into small chunks about the same size and place them into a bowl
1 lb fresh tomatoes, ½ lb fresh mozzarella
Add the chopped basil leaves and season with salt and extra virgin olive oil
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil, 10 Basil leaves, 1 pinch salt
Stir well

Prepare the Bruschetta

Grate the freshly peeled garlic clove over the crusty bread, and the garlic is grated by the crunchy toasted surface of the bread.
2 peeled garlic cloves
Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
Place the Caprese salad on top
Drizzle the juices from the tomato on the bread
Serve on a tray and eat by hand, no balsamic vinegar.

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Notes

Bruschetta is made with sourdough bread; you need a hard-toasted surface to grate the garlic.
Bruschetta is eaten by hand
No Balsamic vinegar

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