Bruschetta Brunch

I have a number of friends in town this weekend so I wanted to make something nice and different for brunch. A few months ago I read an amazing take on bruschetta over at Noble Pig. I thought I had to try this myself. I made a few minor adjustments to her recipe just to use stuff I had around the kitchen.

And guys, these are a hit with the ladies.

These taste better than they look if you can imagine.

There are three parts to this dish: The bread, the berry mixture, the yogurt sauce. Here is all you need for each:

Yogurt Sauce
- 1 cup Greek yogurt. I actually used 1 1/2 cups, but I like a lot of yogurt on mine. The original recipe calls for plain yogurt and sour cream, but I find greek yogurt to be perfect by itself for these types of toppings.
- 2 Tbsp. honey.
- 1/2 Teas. Vanilla.
Berry Topping
- Berries! I think red berries look good and you want something with some tang. Blueberries would be a bad choice. I used a mix of strawberries and raspberries. You could just use strawberries though.
- 2 Tbsp. sugar.
- 1 Tbsp chopped basil (I don’t think this is optional in this dish. It pretty much makes it in my opinion.)
- Juice from half a lemon. (I left this out on accident. Nobody noticed. I didn’t even notice until I saw my full lemon on the counter. Oops.)
Toast
- Baguette or Ciabatta. I think baguettes are a bit easier to work with.
- Cinnamon sugar mixture (I usually use about 10 parts sugar to 1 part cinnamon. But I never measure it really… If it is too cinnamony or too sugary, just you know, fix it.)
- Butter baby. Butter.

Yogurt sauce is pretty straightforward. Combine all of that stuff above in a bowl. You could make this the day before without a problem.

One of my favorite ingredients.

Add some honey and vanilla.

Action shot!

Now for the berries. Again you could prepare the berry topping the day before. It would keep fine for 12 hours in the fridge.

Good looking berries.

This is the hardest part of this recipe… chopping up all these damn strawberries. It probably took me 10 or 15 to get through them all. You want them pretty uniform and minced nicely. It’s worth it though.

Once I got the strawberries and raspberries chopped, I just combined everything in a bowl. Well, everything except the lemon juice that I forgot about. Poor neglected lemon.

Solid knife practice.

Now time to prepare the toast. I like baguettes because they are easy to chop up and get really nice and crispy in the oven. Butter each piece a bit and then sprinkle liberally with the cinnamon sugar mix.

A very nice vessel.

Ideally you would stick these in the broiler for about 4 minutes until they started to brown. I, however, do not have a broiler. How do I live without one? I don’t know. If you could all please send a letter to my landlord that would be nice.

So I didn’t broil them. I baked them at 450 for probably 7-8 minutes. They were still crispy and perfect.

Then you just pile on the toppings. People can either make them for themselves or you can just make a bunch and serve.

Is it time for my close-up?

This is just such a beautiful dish. I think I probably ate about 12 of them and I feel very energized. Healthy. Yummy. Awesome.

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