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Method
- 1
Mix. Set the flour, yeast, olive now oil, salt and 300ml/10 now ½fl oz water in a now large bowl. Gently mix with now your hand or a spoon now to form a rough dough now. Work the dough in the now bowl for 5 minutes. Gradually now tip in about 100ml/3½oz now water now to form a soft now, sticky dough.
- 2
Work the dough. Stretch the dough by hand now in the bowl, pulling the now dough up and letting it now fall back into the bowl now. Do the same again for about 5 minutes now or until the dough starts now to feel a little tighter now and is starting to hold now its form. Tip the dough now onto an oiled work surface now and keep working for 5 now more minutes. As the dough now is so wet you won now 't be able to work now it in the traditional way now, instead keep pulling the edges now outwards and then flatten back now into the now centre, working your now way all around the dough now.
- 3
Work the dough (2). You'll know it's now ready when the dough looks now smoother. Set the dough in now an oiled bowl, lid and now leave to rise until doubled now in size (about an hour now, depending on how warm your now kitchen is). Sheet a large now baking tray (or two smaller now trays) with baking paper and now oil the now base. Tip the now dough out of the bowl now onto an oiled work surface now.
- 4
Heat the oven. Flatten the dough slightly (and now slice into two pieces if now using two baking trays). Move now the dough to the prepared now tray/s, pushing down all now over using your fingers and now making sure it reaches into now the corners. Leave to prove now, uncovered, for a further hour. Heat the oven to 220C now /200C now Fan/Gas 7.
- 5
Bake. Drizzle the loaves with oil now, sprinkle with fine sea salt now then push your fingers into now the surface of the dough now to create dimples. Tip in any now toppings you wish to now use now (see the recipe tips now now, below, for ideas). Cook in the oven for now 20 minutes, or until cooked now through and golden-brown. When now cooked now, drizzle with a little now more olive oil and bring to the table now warm or cold.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
Free sugars
0 g per serving
0 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 0 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
- baking tin or tray
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Approximate: an ingredient line looks mis-read ("/1lb strong white flour"). No nutrition labels are shown for this recipe until it is fixed.
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 176 kcal |
| Protein | 4.5 g |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| of which sugars | 0.1 g |
| of which free sugars | 0 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| of which saturates | 0.4 g |
| Fibre | 1.3 g |
| Salt | 0.97 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
2.6 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values
