Last week, I baked my first ever bread. I went for a simple loaf with sundried tomato, and oh my! It turned out ridiculously well.
Of course, I can’t keep the recipe from you. Read on to see how to make your own sundried tomato bread!
Ingredients
500g flour
450ml lukewarm water
1 packet dried yeast (7g)
10 sundried tomatoes in oil, drained
2 tbsp tomato paste
1/2 tsp salt
Oil
Combine all the dry ingredients and mix well, then stir the tomato paste into the water and mix all the ingredients together. Knead the dough with your hands for about 15 minutes, until it becomes elastic. Put the dough in a large bowl and cover it with a warm, damp cloth. Place the bowl in a warm place and alow the dough to rise for 45 minutes.
Cut the sundried tomatoes into small pieces.
Knead the dough again on a flour-dusted counter for about 5 more minutes, to get the air out. Mix the sundried tomatoes in.
Oil a cake tin. I used the oil from the sundried tomatoes, but olive oil would be nice as well. Dust the inside of the tin with flour and put the dough in the tin. Cover with a warm, damp cloth and put in a warm place to rise for 30 minutes.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 ºC, and bake the bread for 40/45 minutes.
What will come out is a beautiful golden loaf, crispy on the outside and deliciously soft on the inside.
I didn’t let my tomatoes drain properly so I added a bit too much oil to the dough, which are the dark spots you can see in my loaf. The next day, the loaf had firmed up on the inside to a more “regular” bread texture and was still delicious!
I highly recommend you to try this recipe- had I known it was this easy to bake bread, I would’ve done it way sooner!
