Spanish
Pa amb Tomaquet (Catalan Bread with Tomato)
Pa amb Tomaquet (Catalan Bread with Tomato) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at breakfast and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 slices rustic bread
- 1 ripe tomato
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pinch salt
How to cook it
- Toast or lightly grill the bread slices until golden.
- Halve the garlic clove and rub the cut side over the warm bread.
- Halve the tomato and rub or grate the cut side over the bread until it soaks up the pulp, discarding the skin.
- Drizzle generously with the olive oil and sprinkle with the salt.
- Serve right away, the daily table habit across Catalonia at breakfast and alongside other meals alike.
Serve it with
A Spanish lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pa amb Tomaquet (Catalan Bread with Tomato), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pa amb Tomaquet (Catalan Bread with Tomato) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Alubias Blancas con Chorizo (White Beans with Chorizo) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Pa amb Tomaquet (Catalan Bread with Tomato) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on bread and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from eastern Spain.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.