Crispy Baguette Rounds with Rocket, Red Onion, Tomato and Anchovy

Name: Crispy Baguette Rounds with Rocket, Red Onion, Tomato and Anchovy
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: salt and pepper; juice of one lemon to drizzle; olive oil to drizzle; 16 anchovy fillets; 1 small bunch wild rocket; 3 ripe tomatoes, peeled and with seeds removed; 1 red onion, peeled; 2 baguettes

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Feast

By Franck Dangereux

Published 2004

About

For this recipe I prefer shop-bought baguettes as they are twice refined and very light, therefore they become super-crispy in the oven. Good-quality anchovies are more expensive but well worth the extra money. It doesn’t matter where they are from, just buy the more expensive bottles.

Ingredients

2 baguettes
3 ripe tomatoes, peeled and with seeds removed
1 red onion, peeled

Europe
France
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Summer

Method

Once you’ve peeled and seeded the tomatoes, chop them very finely. Also finely chop the red onion. Note that when I say chop finely, I mean crush into tiny pieces.

Mix the tomato and onion together. Do NOT add seasoning yet, as salt draws water from tomatoes. If you like, add a little olive oil to the mixture to make it smooth.

Cut the baguettes into rounds approxi