Snacks · Toasts & flatbreads

Bruschetta

Name: Bruschetta
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 17 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 3 ripe tomato, diced small; a handful fresh basil, sliced thin; 2 cloves — 1 minced, 1 whole garlic; 3 tbsp olive oil; 2 tsp balsamic vinegar; 1/2 tsp salt; 12 slices French bread

Tomatoes, basil and garlic on olive-oiled toast — Italy's original argument that bread is a vehicle. Fifteen minutes, and the tomato-salting step does all the work.

Time: 17 min (12 prep + 5 cook)
Servings: 6
Per serving: 166 kcal
Protein: 4 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

3 ripe tomato, diced small400 g
a handful fresh basil, sliced thin10 g
2 cloves — 1 minced, 1 whole garlic8 g
3 tbsp olive oil40 g
2 tsp balsamic vinegar10 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
12 slices French bread200 g

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Steps

Salt the diced tomatoes in a sieve over a bowl for 10 minutes — the drained juice is what would have made the toast soggy. (Drink it. Cook's privilege.)
Toss the tomatoes with the basil, minced garlic, most of the oil and the balsamic.
Toast the bread slices until golden and rub each with the whole garlic clove while hot — hot toast grates garlic like a file.
Spoon on the tomatoes just before eating, never before.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

10% of kcal

64% water

10 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

13%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 999 kcal goes into the pot, 671 g of ingredients comes out as ~560 g of food → 178 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 178
Protein: (10%); 5 g
Fat: (41%); 8 g
Carbohydrates: (49%); 22 g
of which sugar: 4 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 427 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.