Mediterranean bread

Mediterranean bread
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Time: 50 minuti più riposo
Difficulty: facile

The taste of simple flavors like tomato and basil, in one bite. Try these Mediterranean sandwiches, simple and fast.

Features:
Basil (Ocimum basilicum) is an aromatic plant cultivated and used all over the world.
Rich in vitamin K and calcium, basil has anti-inflammatory antimicrobial and antioxidant properties.
The leaves are bright green and oval in shape, but there are several varieties of basil, each with a slightly different flavor.
Sweet basil is the most common and has a fresh, aromatic taste, often used in Mediterranean dishes and Italian cuisine.
Historical background:
It is a plant native to Asia and India, where it was cultivated as an ornamental plant and for its healing properties, often associated with "magical" virtues.
Thanks to these properties, far from the food use we know today, basil was introduced by the Romans in the Mediterranean
Notes:
Rich in essential oils that offer the characteristic aroma and taste of basil, the main essential oil in basil is metileugenol.

Ingredients (per 1 kg of bread):
500 g prepared for bread and pizza Molino by Giovanna
18 g fresh yeast
380 g water
6 cherry tomatoes
10 denoccioled black olives
4 leaves of basil
30 g extra virgin olive oil
14 g of fine salt


Procedure:
Place the mixture in a bowl or in a food processor, in a second bowl dissolve the yeast in water with the help of a steel whisk and keep aside.
Wash the tomatoes, divide them into 4 and transfer them to a bowl; add the washed olives and cut into strips and basil, washed and chopped, and mix.
Then add the flour to the yeast, working so as to incorporate all the liquid, then add the tomato and olive mixture and mix carefully. Top with oil and salt and work quickly.
To prepare a loaf, place on the flour-infested top and divide the dough into 8 equal parts, use the scale to be precise.
This will allow us to have leavings and homogeneous cooking.
Shape them into loaves and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, let rise for 1 hour.
After this time, bake in the hot oven at 210 °C for 20 minutes.
At the end of cooking remove from the oven and store on a perforated grate to cool.

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