Homemade Italian bread with tomato - how to make bread at home, step by step recipe for homemade bread with photos

First time Italian tomato bread with Provence herbs, I tried one of the Sicilian restaurants. Hlebushek pleasantly impressed with its rich aroma and piquant flavor. I decided that the recipe of Italian cuisine can be adapted to bake a delicious and beautiful bread for their home. Let the step by step photo taken by me in the course of making bread, you will be a good assistant.

Ingredients for bread dough:

• serum (any fat content) - 300 ml;

• vegetable oil (preferably olive oil) - 50 ml;

• bread-yeast - 40 g;

• Salt - 0, L .; 5 hours.

• Sugar - 2 tbsp. l. no slides;

• olive grass - L .; 2 h.

• tomato paste - 30 g;

• flour - 900 gr.

How to make Italian tomato bread at home

First you need to prepare the dough. For this purpose, in a deep bowl fork mash yeast with sugar.

Then, in a bowl add the slightly warmed serum and pour through a sieve of 100 grams of flour.

Knead the brew, cover with a towel and a bowl to remove rasstaivaniya into heat for thirty minutes.

While dough rises, we need to mix oil, Provencal herbs, salt and tomato paste.

Add the resulting mixture into an aromatic brew.

and stirred.

Then, you must add the sifted flour in the sponge in small portions, stirring constantly with a spoon.

When the dough was thicker than sour cream, pour the flour on the table, making it deepen, spread it and begin to knead the dough with his hands.

Ideally, the dough should have a light and pliable (do not hammer him with flour).

How To Bake Italian tomato bread

Italian bread, I decided to give an elongated shape, so I will bake it in the usual utyatnitsu, greased with vegetable oil.

Just hand distribute the dough around the perimeter of the brazier and give him twenty minutes to rise in a warm oven.

Next, bake it in the oven on low heat for about forty minutes.

To ready hlebushek was soft, without removing it from utyatnitsu, sprinkle with water and cover with a towel for five to ten minutes.

The structure of a delicious, fragrant Italian bread with Provence herbs, a porous and delicate, therefore, recommend to cut it after complete cooling.

Well, if you want to lukewarm bread, break off the crust of his hands and eat with pleasure.