Herb and Garlic Bread

Turn your oven on very low, no more than 50°C.  Mix the flour and yeast together and gradually add the warm water mixing all the time until you have a good dough.  Knead until fairly smooth and place in an oiled baking tin or two and flatten out to fill tin (this makes lovely flattish bread a bit like pizza if well spread out). 

Place into the oven and prepare the topping: mix the oil with the herbs, garlic and salt and then spread over the bread.  Turn the oven up to 190°C - the bread will continue rising as the heat increases - and bake for about 25 minutes.

You can experiment with different toppings: add a tablespoon of tomato puree for a pizza style bread - sliced onions add flavour. Sprinklings of poppy or sesame seeds go well too.

Herb and Garlic Bread - what do you reckon?

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  • What is teaspoon equivalent size is a sachet of yeast?

    Posted by Rachel, 26/02/2012 5:08pm (3 months ago)

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