Italian bread salad

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 120 g white bread, from the day before
• 2 cloves garlic
• 3 tbsp red wine
• 6 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 6 tbsp olive oil
• 750 g tomatoes
• Salt
• pepper
• 1 onion(s) (vegetable onion)
• 1 bell pepper(s), yellow
• 1 bell pepper(s), green
• 3 stalk(s) celery
• ½ bunch basil

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Cut the bread into bite-sized pieces. Peel the garlic, press it through a press, and mix it with the wine and half each of the balsamic vinegar and oil. Pour the mixture over the bread and let it sit for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, wash, trim, and slice the tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper, and cover and let it juice. Peel the onion and slice it into thin rings. Clean and wash the bell peppers and celery. Cut the bell peppers into thin wedges and the celery into slices. Rinse the basil, pick off the leaves, leaving the small leaves whole, and cut the rest into fine strips. Mix the vegetables and bread together and serve on plates. Mix the remaining vinegar, remaining oil, the reserved tomato juice, and basil, season with salt and pepper. Drizzle the salad with the mixture and let it sit for 30 minutes.