Monday, 18 March 2013

Jean-Pierre's Granary Bread

The first recipe from my French cooking course with Jean-Pierre! 
(http://www.theamazings.com/teachers/82, http://getmorefood.org)

Ingredients:


200g – organic wholemeal flour (Doves, Duchy, Waitrose)

400g - organic strong w hite flour (Doves. Duchy, Waitrose)

2x packets of yeast (Allinsons or Doves)

3 tsp salt

2 tsp sugar

3 tbsp pumpkin seeds (or a combinations of pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, poppy, walnuts)

4 tbsp olive oil

550g hot water 

Method:

Put all ingredients into a large shallow bowl.
Mix all the ingredients together well with bare hands for 10 minutes. From time to time,squeeze and punch the dough.
• Heat oven for 5 minutes at 100C then turn off
• Cover dough in the bowl with cling film
• Put the bowl in the oven for 45mins to rise
• Oil and flour bread tin and put dough into tin
• Raise the oven temperature to 200C
• Place a bowl of boiling water in the oven to create steam for a nice crispy crust
• Place the bread tin in the oven for 35mins
• Once well cooked and golden take out and place on rack till cold
• Leave to cool before slicing


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