Pan Con Tomate Tomato Bread Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 3 minutes
Makes: 4 slices, serves 2
Ingredients Needed
- 4 slices white pane di casa bread, cut 1cm thick (around 180g/6ozs total)
- 600g/1.3lbs tomatoes
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (or to taste)
- Salt to taste (but err on the side of generous, I used two fat pinches of flaked salt)
- 2 large garlic cloves, peeled and halved
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 TOAST - Cut the bread into 1.5cm/0.6inch slices and toast until golden and crunchy.
Step 2 GRATE - While the bread is toasting, cut the tomatoes in half and grate with a coarse grater into a bowl. You should be able to just hang onto the skin and not grate fingers. Try and remove as much tomato flesh as possible without breaking the skin.
Step 3 SEASON - Strain the tomato mixture of any extra liquid. Season the remaining tomato pulp with salt and olive oil.
Step 4 TOPPING - Drizzle oil over the top of the toasts and rub one cut garlic half across the top (I like it garlicky!). Top with the tomato pulp and extra olive oil.
Substitution notes:
Use your favourite bread for this-I like pane di casa because it is sturdier but sourdough works too. Turkish bread is also nice for this.
Personal Note
Even though I may only have 5 minutes to make my lunch and 5 minutes to eat it, I make sure that I sit down and eat it at the table while looking out into the garden. I feel like it is a nice reset in a really hectic day. I was also prompted to do this by something that I recently saw on TikTok.
I told Mr NQN, "I heard from a pet psychic that one of the top 3 complaints from dogs that have crossed over that their biggest thing was that they were always eating against a wall, they wanted to eat with a view."
So I swapped around Teddy's bowl so that he could look outside into the garden when he was eating and watched to see if it made a difference. He did eat all of his food which he does half of the time. Then I looked at Milo whose bowl always faces the window and I laughed. Milo in his haste to devour his food, had manuevered himself around the bowl so his back was to the window and he was enthusiastically eating his food but completely ignoring the view! So I'd say maybe yes for Teddy and maybe no for Milo. But a yes for me!
So tell me Dear Reader, would you listen to a pet psychic? Have you ever tried Pan Con Tomate?