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[curryman86]

Delicious Home-Made olive bread .... Yummy !!!!
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Olive Bread recipe

Ingredients

500g bread flour (type 65)
1 tsp instant yeast
2 tbsp Olive oil
325g tepid water
1 tsp salt
20 Olives de-stoned

Method

Weigh the flour into your bowl, add the yeast and mix then add the oil & mix, pour in the water and mix to combine and hydrate now add the salt and continue to mix to combine the salt cover bowl with a tea towel and leave for 20 / 30 minutes.

Lightly flour your surface and turn dough out, dust with flour and start to knead gently (if the dough is sticky lightly dust with flour) continue kneading for approx 10 minutes, now chaff the dough and pinch together underneath, press finger gently into dough which should slowly return, if the indentation remains knead again for a few minutes, chaff and check again.

Clean bowl glug of Olive oil in bottom flip dough over so top of dough is in bottom of bowl swish around to cover dough and bowl in oil, you should end up with dough the right way up in bottom of bowl cover with tea towel and leave in warm place for 1 - 1.5 hours for dough to double in size, once doubled, punch down and turn out onto floured surface, flatten out a little with your fingers, sprinkle over olives, stretch and fold twice then make into disired shape, cover with tea towel and let rise till doubled in size, slash with your Stanley / razor blade place loaf into pre - heated oven set at highest temp, pour water into receptical in bottom of oven to create steam, after 10 minutes turn heat down to 220°C for a further 20 / 25 minutes then check loaf by tapping on bottom you want a hollow sound, place on cooling rack and allow to cool completely .......
if you can !!!!!!!

Happy Baking