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This recipe has peasant origins. During the warmer season in areas of southern and central Italy, farmers would wet pieces of stale bread with home-made vinegar and eat them with whatever produce was available in the fields – tomatoes, cucumber, peppers.

The vinegar really enhances the salad and makes you want to eat more.

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My daughters loved to dip crunchy vegetables into vinegar when they were younger, so why not try it out on your children for a healthy lunch.

I’m sure they’ll be impressed with all the wonderful colours of the salad and, of course, you can substitute with other vegetables, depending on what you have available. This is the perfect dish to use up leftover bread.

serves 4

3 tbsp red wine vinegar
4 slices of good country bread, about
1cm/1⁄2 inch thick
1 garlic clove, peeled
4 firm plum tomatoes, sliced
1 red onion, thinly sliced
1 small yellow (bell) pepper, deseeded and cut
into strips
85g/3oz cucumber, thinly sliced
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