Brushetta - Photorecipe

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It's not a typo: this recipe is so tasty that your guests will brush the dish!
The ingredients are very simple, but the tricks are all in the preparation: the most important part is played by flavor and quality of the ingredients, rather than by solid things.
If you can find rustic bread cooked into a wood stove it would be perfect, but it is almost rare even in Italy.
The recommended extra virgin olive oil is the taggiasca one pressed in November, that has a very peculiar spicy taste, but for this you need to personally know somebody owning an olive oil mill.
This recipe, anyway, can be made using a normal microwave oven, so you can prepare it even at work!

*** INGREDIENTS ***
The ingredients are for one person.

- 2 cherry tomatoes, ripe
- 2 slices of rustic bread (better that of the day before, crispier)
- 4 slices of smoked scamorza
- some leaves of fresh sweet basil
- a pinch of dryed oregano
- salt
- extra virgin olive oil
- a clove of garlic (it can be used for at least 20 slices of bread)

*** PREPARATION ***

Cut in half the cherry tomatoes and add a pinch of salt inside them.
Peel the garlic and rub it over the bread, specially on the crust. In the photo it is impossible to see the difference between the normal bread and the rubbed one, but I assure you the taste is very different.
Slice the scamorza, 1/4" thin slices are enough.
Place the bread into a pyrex dish (the flatter, the better).
Add a thread of oil and a pinch of oregano over the bread.
Put a slice of scamorza and half tomato over every slice.
Heat in the microwave oven until the scamorza melts: for the most of ovens 2 minutes are enough.
Pull out the oven (be careful, the bread can be very hot).
Decorate with the basil leaves (they can be eaten, of course).
If you want to have something a bit more spicy, you can add some chili powder or a drop of Tabasco sauce inside the tomato before the "cooking".

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