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23. June 2017

Herb bread

Herb bread
Recipe serves 8
Preparation time: 30min

Dough:
450ml water
42g fresh yeast
1 tea spoon sugar
750g spelt flour
2 table spoons olive oil
20g salt

Herb butter:
120g butter
3 sprigs thyme, picked
3 sprigs rosemary, picked and chopped
½ bunch of chives, chopped
10 leaves of basil, chopped
1 teas poon mustard
salt and pepper

Dough: Mix water, yeast and sugar. Add spelt flour and olive oil and knead to a dough for 6 minutes. Add salt and knead another 6 minutes. If the dough still sitcks to the fingers add more flour. Cover with a damp cloth and let the dough rise for an hour.

Herb butter: Mix all ingredients.

Grease a springform (26 cm diameter) and lay it with baking paper.

Roll the dough rectangular to 1 cm thickness. Spread the herb butter on it. Cut the dough into 5 cm strips. Fold the strips like a accordion and put them into the springform. Let it rise for another 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Bake herb bread for 40 minutes. Take it out of the springform and let it cool down.