Panzanella (Italian tomato & bread salad)

This traditional Italian salad calls for the juiciest ripest tomatoes. So if you don't have them, don't make Panzanella, make something else!

Classic Panzanella Salad (Tuscan-Style Tomato and Bread Salad)

Dried bread and salted tomatoes make the best version of panzanella, a summer salad from the Tuscany region of Italy. And let's get one thing straight: panzanella is not a tomato salad with bread; it's a bread salad flavored with vegetables.

Grilled Panzanella Salad

Charred late-summer vegetables and juicy, ripe tomatoes are tossed with a vinaigrette and hunks of grilled day-old bread, which soaks up all the fabulous juices.

Grilled Chicken Panzanella

Grilled chicken turns this summertime salad into a main course. Toasting the bread on the grill lets it sop up all of the juice from those farm fresh tomatoes without getting too mushy.

French in a Flash: Niçoise Panzanella Bread Salad

Salade Niçoise is iconic, as is the Pan Bagnat which is just a Salade Niçoise sandwich. This is somewhere in the middle: a bread salad full of all the flavors that make a Salade Niçoise a Salade Niçoise: cherry tomatoes, tender blanched haricots verts, anchovies, garlic, lemon, olive oil, thyme, basil, and the best part, albacore in olive oil.

Pan con Tomate (Spanish-Style Grilled Bread With Tomato)

Pan con tomate has five ingredients—bread, tomato, olive oil, garlic, and salt. Make this perfect end-of-summer dish when local tomatoes are ripe and abundant.

Roast Chicken With Asparagus Panzanella

Making panzanella— the classic Tuscan tomato-and-bread salad—without tomatoes is tricky, because you need all those juices to soften the stale bread. The trick is to find other ways to make the dish as flavor-packed and moist as possible. Here's our method with asparagus, cucumbers, and red onions, served alongside roast chicken.

Cherry Tomato, Green Bean, and Wax Bean Salad with Herbed Bread Crumbs from 'Kitchen Garden Cookbook'

Fresh tomato salads are, in my opinion, one of the greatest joys of summer eating. They're even better when you can use tomatoes you've picked yourself. In her new Kitchen Garden Cookbook, Jeanne Kelley pairs this staple of a summer garden with snappy green beans and pale yellow wax beans for a crunchy, colorful twist. A generous shower of herbed bread crumbs adds more texture to the salad, turning it into a dish akin to a light panzanella.

Broccoli Rabe and Antipasti Panini With Olive Salad

[Photographs: Robyn Lee] This vegan sandwich is based on a muffuletta, but it wasn't as simple as removing the meat and cheese and shoving in vegetables in its place. Juicy, garlicky broccoli rabe braised in a dry white wine provide...

Pan con Tomate (Spanish Tomato Bread)

Pan con tomate (pa amb tomàquet in Catalan) is an easy Spanish tomato bread, perfect for tapas and snacking, and only requires 5 ingredients.