TOMATO AND ITALIAN HERBS BREAD
Got this recipe from www.daringgourmet.com with full step by step pictures to follow.
Unfortunately I don't have a bread machine nor those big kitchenette baking machine like you see those in Masterchef. So this recipe below is hand knead and it came out beautifully.....Because there's only 2 of us eating the bread, so I half the recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup or more cherry tomatoes
3-5 pieces sundried tomatoes, chopped roughly
1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 + 1/8 tsp instant (rapid rise) yeast
3/8 cup warm water
1 tbsp honey
1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 cup bread flour + 3/'4 cup All purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1/8 cup mixed fresh Italian herbs (like rosemary, basil, marjoram, thyme, sage, dill, oregano and parsley)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 200 degC.
- Roast the tomatoes - spread them out on an aluminium foil-covered in baking tray and toss with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Roast the tomatoes for 10-15 mins or until the skins collapsed and just barely beginning to burnt. Puree the tomatoes in a blender and set aside.
- Jug - Combine 3/8 cup warm water, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp hone and 1+1/8 tsp instant yeast. Covered and set aside to allow the yeast to foam around 10-15 minutes.
- Large metal bowl - Sift flour and salt, using spatula, make a well in the middle of the flour and pour in tomatoes, the water/yeast mixture, chopped sundried tomatoes and herbs.
- Using spatula - fold in the flour into the wet ingredients until starting to form a dough. Wet hand with olive oil and start kneading the dough until it comes together smoothly.
- Wet inside metal bowl with olive oil and the dough. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap tightly and let the dough proof to double its size for the next 1-2 hours.
- Wet hands with olive oil and punch the dough to release the air. knead a few times and shape the dough whichever way you like to make. Either in a loaf form or bun form.
- Let the dough proof the second time until it double its size.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degC . Put a small metal bowl with large ice cube below the baking rack. Bake your bread for 25-30 mins or until the top of the bread is browned and the loaf sounds hollow when you tap on it with your knuckles.
- Transfer the bread to a wire rack and cool completely.
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