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    TO DRINK: Pair the bruschetta with tomato and garlic cream cheese, olives, feta and basil with Thelema Mountain Red as a lighter-styled, fresh red wine always works with tomato dishes. 

    Bruschetta with tomato and garlic cream cheese, olives, feta and basil

    Ingredients

    • Cream cheese
    • 180g baby tomatoes
    • 5 garlic cloves, skins kept on
    • 5ml (1 tsp) sugar
    • 15ml (1 tbsp) olive/avocado oil
    • 1 rosemary stalk
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
    • 250g sweet chilli or plain cream cheese
    • 4 thick slices of ciabatta, grilled
    • 250ml (1 cup) pitted black olives
    • 1½ round of feta, crumbled
    • handful of fresh basil leaves

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 220°C. Toss together the tomatoes, garlic, sugar, oil and rosemary. Roast for about 10 – 15 minutes. Season and cool.

    2

    Remove the garlic skins and mix with the cheese and tomatoes. Season.

    3

    Spread the mixture onto the bread, top with the olives, feta and fresh basil.