This bread is really good to snack on while cooking meat on the braai. I made it up last night because I could not find any nice breads at the shop, so I just bought a ciabatta and decided to experiment.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium ciabatta (or bagette)
• 10 baby tomatoes
• 3-4 cloves garlic
• 1-2 pickled chilli’s
• 4 tablespoons freshly chopped herbs (eg basil, rosemary, thyme)
• about ¼ cup olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

• roughly chop the garlic
• put garlic into pestle and mortar, and grind finely – get all the juices out
• add the baby tomatoes and grind well, be careful, because the tomatoe juice can squirt all over the place
• add the herbs and olive oil
• crush and mix all well
• carefully slice the bread open, and smear the mixture all over one side
• grate parmesan cheese over to cover generously (use any other cheese if you prefer)
• put the lid back onto the bread
• bake the bread in the oven for about 10-15 minutes at 180 deg c, or warm slowly on the side of a braai, turning occasionally if on the braai
• divide into quarters

Serves four small slices (as a snack).