Tomato Summer Pudding

Name: Tomato Summer Pudding
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: fresh plum or vine tomatoes-they must have a good taste; a quantity of garlic cloves; tomato passata; virgin olive oil; salt and freshly ground black pepper; sugar; good stale Italian bread, decrusted and sliced; Worcestershire and Tabasco sauces; a large bunch of fresh basil; lemon juice

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1996

About

I thought this up while daydreaming over that splendid Italian peasant dish Panzanella. It is essential that you find really good, sweet tomatoes – none of those tasteless Dutch numbers. Passata is a purée of tomatoes, easily found in most supermarkets or delicatessens.

Ingredients

fresh plum or vine tomatoes-they must have a good taste
salt and freshly ground black pepper
sugar
tomato passata

Europe
Italy
Side dish
Vegetarian
Summer
Mediterranean

Method

Have enough tomatoes to overfill the pudding basin you will use. Dip into boiling water and peel them. Chop roughly and sprinkle with good sea salt and black pepper plus a tiny bit of sugar. Pour some passata into a large soup plate and season with lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce, and maybe a touch of Tabasco. Soak the bread slices briefly in this mixture and line your bowl with them, leav