Homemade olive bread

Homemade eliopsomo

Ingredients

  • 500gr hard flour
  • 1kgr wheat flour or all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • bread yeast (2 tsp)
  • lukewarm water
  • olive oil for greasing the baking pan
  • olives cut into pieces

Method

  1. In a large bowl, add flours, stir them and make a hole in the center.
  2. Add there the salt, the bread yeast, some lukewarm water and knead well until flour moistened and make a soft dough.
  3. Knead for 5-10 minutes approximately until the dough become soft.
  4. Grease with some olive oil a baking pan, add a piece of dough (fill half height of baking pan), and press gently with your hands to go around the pan so you don’t have empty space.
  5. Cover well with a thick cloth or blanket and leave until doubled in volume.
  6. With a knife, make a hole in the middle (can deflate a bit, do not be afraid).
  7. Bake in preheated oven at 180oC-200oC for 40′-45′ until golden brown.
  8. Removed from the oven, pass a clean cloth towel on top (which is golden brown) to polish the surface, upside down the pan and remove the pan.
  9. In case you can’t remove the pan, place the pan upside down on a thick kitchen towel and cover well from above (with thick towels) to sweat and baking pan can be removed (leave it on towels until baking pan can be removed itself.)
Tips:

You can also use the Homemade bread with sourdough starter recipe and just add the olives.