How To Make Bruschetta With Tomatoes and Basil

If you are looking for a restaurant style appetizer that you can make at home, try this recipe for bruschetta! Made with bread, tomatoes, basil, onions, garlic and olive oil, this is the best easy bruschetta recipe!

How often do you want to serve a simple, yet delicious and healthy appetizer? This tomato bruschetta is it! You can make it in just a few minutes, and serve as a dinner appetizer, or even a light lunch.

This tomato basil bruschetta is a classic Italian dish. I first tried it at an Italian restaurant, and it tasted amazing. Then, I found out how simple it was to make at home, and I have been making it ever since.

What Is Bruschetta?

Bruschetta is an appetizer, that consists of bread, toasted with olive oil, rubbed with garlic and then topped with some toppings.

These toppings could be tomatoes with basil, mozzarella tomato, goat cheese with tomatoes and many more.

Bread For Bruschetta

What kind of bruschetta bread should you use in this recipe?

Usually, Italian bread is used, just the way I do in the Bruschetta Recipe With Roasted Red Peppers, Feta And Basil.

In the past I made garlic bread with regular sandwich bread — you can read all about it in this blog post: How To Make Cheesy Garlic Bread With Regular Bread.

So I thought, can you use regular sandwich bread for bruschetta bread? Sometimes people want to make tomato bruschetta, but they don’t have Italian bread or French bread on hand. So I made this recipe with regular sandwich bread, and it worked amazingly!

Best Easy Bruschetta

Here is the equipment you need to make the best simple bruschetta:

– Cutting Board, for cutting bread and cutting the veggies for the bruschetta topping. You should have a good cutting board for your kitchen, here is one that we recommend: Cutting Board.

– Kitchen Knife, another item that you need in your kitchen for chopping vegetables and bread. If you are looking for a good knife, here is one that we recommend: Kitchen Knife.

– Mixing Bowl, for mixing together veggies for the topping.

– Baking Sheet, for toasting the bread.

– Parchment Paper, if you want don’t like washing dishes, then you must use parchment paper! Your baking sheet will not get dirty, when you use parchment paper. Click here to get parchment paper: Parchment Paper