Finally the weekend is here and I decided to dedicate it to R&R... well a bit of steemit time too.
One of the advantages of being on steemit, is that I can incorporate my baking into my blogs. I generally bake bread for people I know 4-5 times a week. I decided to bake my own bread here in Peru, cause quite frankly, the bread around where I live isn't very good. I initially baked for myself and then over the months, friends then random tourists came knocking to get some oven warm bread.
The bread recipe I am going to share here in this blog, is very popular and sometimes I can't make enough of it. I started making this type of bread when I found a grandpa type market seller of local honey. This guy has his own hives and recycles plastic bottles to sell his honey. When you eat the stuff it has an amazing smell of flowers and is delicious to boot. It clicked in my mind, why not add this to the bread?
I did exactly that.
To make this bread you will need the following:
- 1kg (2.2 lbs) of good quality wheat flour
- 600 ml of water
- Two soup spoons of dried yeast
- Good pinch of salt
- 10 pitted and diced black olives
- As much diced garlic as you can handle
- A generous serving of honey
- Dried rosemary powder (any herbs here will do)
Firstly I tend to prepare the garlic, olives, salt, herbs and honey in a separate bowl. In no particular order I put in a pinch or two of salt, herbs and the diced garlic.
Then comes that generous serving of honey.
In goes the pitted and diced black olives. These tend to be salty and you won't need as much extra added salt. Mix well.
In a separate bowl, add your 2.2 lbs (1kg) of flour. Now add the contents of the other bowl. The one with the garlic and olives in it.
Now pour in 600ml of water and two soup spoons of dried yeast. Start stirring with a wooden spoon.
Stir some more. You will notice the dough is getting harder to mix with a wooden spoon.
At one point you will have to get your hands in the bowl and continue mixing/folding by hand. Do this until you do not see any dry flour in the bowl or in the dough. This usually takes about 5 minutes of folding.
Cover your bowl with a damp tea towel and let it rest for at least 45 minutes.
Your dough ball should be at least double the size. If it is sticky, then wet your hands and this will make so much easier to handle. The dough won't stick to your fingers and hands.
Take an edge of the dough and pull it out. It will be remarkably stretchy by now. Fold over clock or counter clockwise from the edge. Do this until the dough isn't as stretchy and you are finding it hard to pull out. When you have reached this point.
Place the dough back into the bowl and cover it. Let it rise for another 45 minutes.
The dough ball should be huge by now and all puffed up. Time to prepare it for the baking tray.
I cut 300 gram (10.6 oz) pieces of dough to work with.
With a cut piece of dough, fold over from the edges until you can't really.
Shape the folded dough into a sphere and place on the floured baking tray. The front three breads below are the olive and honey, the smaller ones behind are hamburger buns. I left the dough to proof for about two hours before I put them in the oven.
Preheat your oven 420 F or 220 C. I glaze my bread with milk just before baking. It turns the bread into a beautiful golden colour. Bake for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, carefully pull out your baking tray and place somewhere to cool off.
After 30 minutes of cooling, this little beauty is ready to be enjoyed.
Hey everyone. I hope you liked this recipe. I would like share a video I made:
Yes, I plant trees for your upvote. It is that simple. 30 trees planted since the 1st of February and all with your simple upvote.
(Usage with permission. This art work and owner of such, is courtesy of @artwatch and usage requires permission )
If you would like to read my posts, then find me here @intrepidsurfer
♡Thank you @intrepidsurfer
LOOKS SO DELICIOUS
thank you @viktoriyani it was super delicious and a lot of happy people too :)
Looks Devine! There is really nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread
Oh I totally agree @chekohler and I am about to make some more now :)
This combination of garlic, honey and olives sounds interesting. Bread sometimes takes a lot of time to proof, but it's not really technically difficult to make...i wish more people would bake their own...
Hello @homecook , yes the dough can take longer times, but the longer the better. It give more flavour to the bread. The honey really adds to this bread and throw in the saltiness of the olives. It works. Do you bake much?
You r absolutly right on that one. Sure, as much as i can. Nothing beats home baked goodies!!!
never does :)
It looks good 😋
Wish I could try some. That bread looks nice and crusty!
I place a bowl of water in the oven and the steam has a lot to do with making the crust. Super tasty and happy friends.
Looks so delicious.
it was and once again I should have made three times as much today, but nah... its my weekend. Tomorrow is my day off from bread, but I will do a upvote a tree vlog and post it.
Looks so delicious, honey substitute sugar that's cool and I must say you have great advocacy by planting trees in your country.
Bread with honey is a total winner and it is a better sugar than cane sugar. Planting trees is a simple concept in which everyone can participate with an upvote. SImple and so easy to make something good happen. Thank you for your support, @intrepidsurfer
You are welcome, glad to see a person like you who have that kind of advocy. It is something that I wanted to do, but due to limited resources I can't do it, happy to support to something I also believe in. ;)
Well I thank you for getting behind upvote a tree. You upvote with others and I will make sure trees are planted for it. why don't you try something? literally from a seed, will grow a tree :) @intrepidsurfer
As much as I wanted too but I can't, we don't have yard, we live in a concrete rented house. We are far from rural areas . We don't own a lot.
I understand more than you think. All you need is initiative and keep it simple. I literally won some seem in the steemit sandwich contest and I planted one tree. From that it got me here. All I am saying is do something you know you are good at, no matter how you start, just keep at it.
Good job intrepidchef! Looks delicious! Now I am missing Czech bread (very similar to this) even more...
oh tell me more about this Czech bread please.
There are many different types but it usually looks like this
I am missing it really bad here in Mexico. Tacos and burritos are fine but you dont want to eat them all the time :D
oh nice, I see a basket was used to proof the dough. I was the exact same about the bread here and just made my own. Get some fresh flour, hot oven and go for it. You will make people and yourself veryhappy with it.
Yeah, might give it a try ;) Thanks!
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