Mediterranean Bread

Posted 2013-02-04 by Bastion Harrison ⇒ follow

Mediterranean food is colourful, flavoursome, healthy, and are great ingredients for making bread. Based on the brands I used, each slice is about 136 calories.

Preparation Time: 3 hours
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Makes: 8 servings

Ingredients
275g wholemeal bread flour
75g Greek green olives stuffed with red peppers
75g sun dried tomatoes in olive oil
1 1/2 tsp fast action yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp dried thyme
200ml water

Method

Mix the flour, salt, yeast, and tomatoes together.

Create a well in the flour and gradually pour in the water to form a dough.

Knead the dough for ten minutes, the prove for about an hour.

Punch down the dough and shape it into a rectangle.

Chop the olives and sprinkle lengthwise along the middle of the dough with the thyme.

Fold the two sides of the dough lengthwise to the middle so that it covers the olives.

Prove for another hour.

Pre-heat the oven to 220 & #3872 ;C/ 200 & #3872 ;C fan/425 & #3872 ;F/7 Gas.

Make eight snips on either side of the dough with a pair of scissors.

Bake.