Perfect OLIVE Bread Recipe

Food Language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LeAVDzAgxc

I've made a lot of bread, but this olive bread? This one's in a league of its own. It's crispy, airy, packed with flavor, and dangerously easy to make. If you've never baked bread before, this is the recipe that'll get you hooked. And if you have, prepare to replace your usual loaf with this beauty.

Ingredients:

• Water – 1 cup (220 ml)

• Fresh yeast: ¾ tsp. (3 g) or dry yeast: ½ tsp. (2 g)

• Bread flour – 2 ½ cups (320 g)

• Salt: 1 tsp. (6 g) (adjust to taste)

• Chopped olives – 1½ tbsp. (20 g)

Directions

1. Bloom yeast with water.

2. Add dry ingredients (except olives) and mix well. Let rise 30 minutes

3. Add olives to bowl and wet hands and fold dough over itself in all four directions. Then throw dough hard back into bowl, slapping motion. (Lift and slap). Let rise 30 minutes.

4. Repeat Step #4

5. Let rise 1-2 hours until doubled in size

6. Put on floured board and cut into 6 pieces. Slightly flatten each piece into a rectangle and then roll up from short end, then pinch to make a ball, finally rolling on the board to smooth ball shape. Let rest for 10 minutes

7. After 10 minutes, flatten each ball and fold into center to make a ball again, rolling once done to make a sphere. Put on baking tray covered with parchment paper. Cover and let rise 30 minutes.

8. Once balls have risen, sift a thin veil of flour on top and smooth flour with your hand. Cut top of each loaf with a lame.

9. Put a little water into edges of the pan. Cover with another pan and put into preheated oven.

10. Bake at 450F for 20 min.

11. Remove top pan/cover and bake at 390F for 10 more minutes (check color, it may need more time)

12. Remove to drying rack