Traditional Italian Bread Salad

Ingredients

• 1 garlic clove peeled and smashed
• olive oil to drizzle
• 1 pound Italian bread loaf of day old, sliced
• 8 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese cut into cubes, grated mozzarella will do
• 3 tomatoes large, chopped, or an equivalent amount of cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 cucumber small, chopped
• 1/2 cup purple onion chopped, and rinsed
• 1/2 cup Kalamata olives pitted and halved
• 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves chopped, don't chop these till just before you're ready to serve, to avoid having the leaves turn brown pre…
• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3/4 teaspoon sea salt

Nutrition

• Calories : 670 calories
• Carbohydrate : 57 grams
• Cholesterol : 35 milligrams
• Fat : 41 grams
• Fiber : 5 grams
• Protein : 20 grams
• SaturatedFat : 11 grams
• Sodium : 1300 milligrams
• Sugar : 7 grams