On the day crusty bread

400g as two ‘ciabatta’ style crusty loaves

When I cook a roast bird perhaps my favourite accompaniment is bread and butter. When it’s crusty and fresh from the oven I love it. Same goes for BBQ and warm salads.

The thing is my favourite bread for that is ciabatta – but because I have to prep a sour dough I have to know the day before I want the bread. When that’s not possible, and I’m not that organised here is what I do…

Prep: 2min Rise time: 4 hours Cook: 16min

Ingredients

70g semolina flour

330g strong white flour

tsp salt

15ml olive oil

tsp sugar

280ml water

1/2 a 7g pack of yeast

Method

  1. Place all the ingredients together and use programme 16 on the bread-maker. This programme makes a dough and completes 1 rise. You can do this manually, leaving the dough to rise for about 90min.
  2. turn the dough out onto a lightly oiled baking sheet, tear in half and pull out the two halves into sausages.
  3. Sprinkle with salt and leave to rise for about 40min in a proving drawer.
  4. Heat the oven to 225c (fan) and cook for 16min, serve immediately.