Basic Bread Recipe
This recipe was taken from the BBC.
Ingredients
- Flour 500g
- Water 300ml
- Dried Yeast 7g (1 sachets)
- Salt 5g
- Sugar 3.5g
- Olive Oil
Method
- Add yeast and sugar to water and cover.
- Leave until all the yeast has dissolved and created a head on top.
- Add the salt to the flour and mix briefly.
- Create a well in the four.
- Slowly pour in the water and mix with a knife.
- Once all the water has been added start chopping with the knife to incorporate more flour.
- When the knife becomes clean tip out onto a clean workspace.
- Kneed until you can pull the dough apart and create a thin see through window.
- Fold the dough in on itself until it creates a ball.
- Wipe olive oil around a bowl and place the dough in it.
- Cover the bowl with cling film which has been wiped with olive oil.
- After two hours flatten the dough and fold it up like an envelope.
- Split into two pieces and place into a pan wiped with oil
- Leave to rise one more time for about two hours.
- Place the pans in an oven preheated to 200°c and cook for 30 minutes.