Mediterranean Black Olive Bread

photo by Jackie S.





- Ready In:
- 2hrs 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 loaf
ingredients
- 3 cups bread flour
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
- 1⁄2 cup chopped black olives
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1⁄4 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
- 1 tablespoon cornmeal
directions
- In a bowl, mix together flour, yeast, sugar, salt, garlic powder, italian seasoning, black olives, olive oil, and water.
- Turn out dough on a floured board.
- Knead until smooth- about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Let rise about 45 minutes, until it doubles in size and punch down.
- Knead for another 5 to 10 minutes an let rise for 30 minutes, until it doubles in size.
- Round the dough on kneading board.
- Place dough upside down in a bowl lined with a lint-free, well floured towel.
- Let rise until double in size.
- While the bread is rising for the third time, put a pan of water in the bottom of the oven.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Gently turn loaf out onto a sheet pan that has been lightly oiled and dusted with cornmeal.
- Bake loaf at 450 degrees F for 15 minutes.
- Reduce heat to 375 degrees and bake for 30 more minutes, or until done.
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I took Karen's advice and did the first 6 steps in my ABM, and then picked up on Step 7. I made some changes, using sun-dried tomato oil instead of the olive oil, and using 1/4 cup kalamata olives & 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes instead of the 1/2 cup olives. The result was ABSOLUTE DELICIOUSNESS! And the bread looked amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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This was soooo good! It doesn't take too long, I started as soon as I got home from work and it was ready by dinner at 8:30. I used canned chopped black olives that had been drained and they were perfect. I also mixed this up in my KitchenAid making it extra easy. We just had this with pasta but next time I would make some sort of tapanade or sun-dried tomato spread to put on it. I will definitely be making this again. Thank you! Made for PRMR tag.
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I took Karen's advice and did the first 6 steps in my ABM, and then picked up on Step 7. I made some changes, using sun-dried tomato oil instead of the olive oil, and using 1/4 cup kalamata olives & 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes instead of the 1/2 cup olives. The result was ABSOLUTE DELICIOUSNESS! And the bread looked amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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