Panzanella Salad with Fruit and Cold Cut Meat

A salad such as Panzanella Salad shouldn’t resist to norms like day old bread with tomato and vinaigrette. It’s a type of salad that can be simple or extravagant with a beautiful medley of fresh seasonal produce. This Fruits and Cold Cut Panzanella Salad is like summer on a bowl with interesting mix of textures from different fruits and red wine vinaigrette. You can adjust the ingredients of the Panzanella Salad based on your taste buds and diet.

In our house, when bread gets old, we often prepare a quick stir-fried dish with chunks of bread, onion, tomato and few warm spices. We call it bread kachumbar, a dish I am yet to share out here. Panzanella Salad is something that I tried for the first time and I am seriously hooked. It’s easy to make and I absolute loved the entire flavor blend that went in.

What Ingredients are added in this Panzanella Salad

• Pineapples cut in bite size. I grilled the pineapples because it brings out the sweetness.
• Scooped out Muskmelon balls
• Cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
• romaine lettuce
• assorted cold cut meats
• fresh mozzarella cheese
• thick slices of artisan bread

Red Wine Vinaigrette for the Salad

The dressing is very simple red wine vinaigrette. It’s tangy, tad bit savory with a hint of sweetness. It just got the salad together so beautifully that there were no leftovers in the bowl. This summer salad is so good that you will make it on repeat.

A typical Panzanella Salad incorporates juicy tomatoes as the juice helps to break down the crusty bread. In this salad, the majority of the flavorful juice comes from the grilled pineapple and fresh melon. The cherry tomatoes and lettuce add a lovely refreshing crunch and to balance that, there is fresh mozzarella cheese. As for the bread, I had to grill it because seriously, nothing can beat that. It also means that you don’t have to wait for the bread to get stale and dried out!

Just go with whatever fruits you have, peaches or nectarines. Add kale instead of lettuce. Go with leftover roast chicken if cold cut is not your thing. I like to leave a few slices of bread as is so that I could dunk them in the juice at the bottom of the bowl.

More salad ideas for you:

Grilled Watermelon Shishito Peppers Salad

Zaatar Roasted Cauliflower

Chicken And Quinoa Mason Jar Salad

Fruit Cold Cut Panzanella Salad

Kankana Saxena

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Ingredients

 

• For the vinaigrette
• ¼ cup red wine vinegar
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon pepper

for the salad

• ½ pineapple cut in bit size chunks
• ½ muskmelon (balls scooped out or cut into bite size chunks)
• ½ cup halved cherry tomatoes
• 5 big romaine leaves (cut in bite size chunks)
• 5 to 6 thick slices of artisan bread
• 10 to 12 assorted cold cut meat slices
• 8 oz mozzarella cheese (cut into bite size chunks)

Instructions

 

• Prepare the vinaigrette by whisking everything in a bowl. Taste for salt and sweetness and add more, if needed. Keep it aside.
• For the salad, start by grilling the pineapples on a hot grill pan at medium high for about 4 minutes on each side. Grill the bread in the same pan. Roughly chop the grilled bread into bite size chunks. Feel free to leave a few slices whole to dunk into the juice from the bottom of the bowl.
• Take a big serving bowl and arrange the grilled pineapples, melon balls, cherry tomatoes, romaine leaves, cold cut meat slices, mozzarella cheese and bread chunks. Drizzle the vinaigrette on top and toss it around. I prefer to let the salad sit for 10 minutes before serving.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Serves 3