BREAD

MEDIUM SOFT WHITE BREAD

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 INGREDIENTS:

(for one big loaf of bread)

• 700 g High grade flour
• warm water
• 2Tbs fresh yeast (if you use granulate yeast. In case you have the cube of fresh yeast one is enough)
• 2-3 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
• 2 Tbs salt
• seeds (sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, etc.)

PREPARATION:

Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.

Place the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Mix them all together. Then make a well using a spoon; inside that place the oil an a bit of water; start gently mixing together the liquid with the flour, moving the spoon in always slightly bigger circles; keep on adding warm water and stir until it is too difficult to mix with the spoon. Therefore it doesn't need much time :)

Place the mixture in a big bread loaf pan and bake it for at least 40 minutes, depending on the type of oven. Just check the colour until is golden.

N.B. There are millions of recipes about breads!
You can mix different types of flours, add difference types of seeds, olives, onion; you can play with the liquid adding tomato, spinach, pumpkin cream. It is the combination of the ingredients with the water, how you decided you want the texture of the bread to be (softer or stronger) that make the difference.

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