I bake this bread often, it’s easy to make and tastes exactly like the one in the market. I like to be creative and add some dried tomatoes, olives, or caramelized onions to this dough. You can use it in garlic bread with cheese recipe.I Mostly knead with my hands, it has a therapeutic effect, I’m always calmer after a good kneading session 🙂
Ingredients:
– 1/2 tablespoon dry yeast
– 1/2 cup warm water
– 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
– 1/2 tablespoon sugar
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– 1/2 tablespoon oil
1- Mix water with yeast, 1/2 cup flour, and sugar. Let it rest for 20 minutes.
2- Add salt to the rest of the flour, and then add it to the above mixture.
3- Knead and add oil throughout the kneading. Dust your hand with flour if the dough is sticky.
4- Keep on kneading until you get soft dough, as soft as your earlobe.
5- Cover with wet cloth and let it rise.
6- Punch it and place it in a baking pan sprinkled with flour. Cover it and let it rise again.
7- If you like, you can brush the surface with egg yolk and milk. Place it in a preheated oven 350F/180C/ gas mark 4.
8- It will take 15-20 minutes in the oven.
9- After you take it out of the oven, cover with cloth or kitchen towel.
