Bruschetta

Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Equipment | Techniques | Cookbook Disambiguation Pages | Recipes | Cuisine of Italy | Vegetarian cuisine This article describes general preparation procedures for the popular Italian appetizer (or antipasto) Bruschetta (plural bruschette), slices of toasted or grilled bread rubbed with garlic, drizzled with olive oil, and seasoned with salt and pepper. This basic preparation is frequently topped with combinations of flavorful seasonal ingredients. It is a dish coming from the Southern Italian culinary tradition, though variants exist throughout Italy. It is commonly mispronounced in America as "bru-shetta", but should be pronounced with a hard K sound, "bru-sketta." There are many types of bruschetta, some involving special roasted and/or hard bread which may require a different preparation than the one below. The recipe below is a meeting point between Northern and Southern Italy, using an Italian or French baguette-style loaf. You can adapt this recipe to as many servings as you need. As a guideline, you can serve 1 or 2 bruschette per person.

Cuisine: Italy · categories: Appetizer recipes; Italian recipes; Recipes; Recipes using bread; Recipes using garlic; Recipes using tomato; Recipes with metric units; Vegetarian recipes; Very Easy recipes

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