Basil Bread

Simple and light oil based basil bread. Very good with soften butter spread as toast.

Simple and light oil based basil bread. Very good with soften butter spread as toast.

  • Basil -- 2.00 (g)
  • Bread Flour -- 500.00 (g)
  • Olive Oil -- 45.00 (g)
  • Salt -- 10.00 (g)
  • Water -- 320.00 (ml)
  • Yeast -- 7.00 (g)
  1. Put Flour, salt, and yeast in bowl (yeast to one side)
  2. Put in olive oil and basil.
  3. Put in about 3/4 of the water and begin stirring with your hand
  4. Continue adding remaining water and hand mixing until it feels a little sticky
  5. Turn out of bowl and begin kneading on a very lightly floured surface (adding oil as needed to keep from sticking to your hands). Do this for about 10 - 15 minutes, or until it feels right.
  6. Let rise in an oiled bowl until it doubles (about 2 hours), cover the bowl.
  7. Tilted out of bowl onto a floured surface. Fatten the air out, and put into a "loaf" form folding the sides underneath. Placing into an oiled bread tin, cover and let rise until doubled (it is just over the top of the loaf tin), about 1-2 hours.
  8. Heat oven to 205 C with fan. Cook for 35 minutes, look and make sure bread is good. Take out and if tapping the bottom sounds hollow, then place on a wire cooling rack until cool. Then store how you want.