Sundried Tomato Bread.

Last week a spent a fair amount of time down in Glasgow. It was wonderful to see people I haven't seen in a long time. I did a lot of shopping while I was there, which was inevitable and satisfying. I also did a lot of eating. The last night in Glasgow I stayed with my friends Sally and John and we made pizza for dinner from scratch. It was delicious and made me want to try my hand at making bread. So I thought I would try a loaf and add one of my favorite things into it, sundried tomato's. Here goes;


You will need:


750g of strong white flour
2 teaspoons of salt
25g of butter (I use Lurpak)
7g of Dried Yeast
450ml of warm water (half boiling, half cold) 
2 tablespoons of oil (I used to oil from the sundried tomato jar)
Half a big jar of Sundried Tomato's cut into little pieces
Cracked Black Pepper.


Once you have all the ingredients out, mix the flour, yeast, salt and butter together in a big bowl. Then, stir in the water to make a soft dough. Add the oil and sundried tomato's and knead on a floured surface for 10 minutes. I added the cracked black pepper as I was kneading it. 


Once kneaded for 10 minutes place back in the bowl (below) then cover and leave...

...until it is doubled in size. This was about 30-45mins. Then, shape it how you want and place on grease proof paper in a tray. Cut the top for effect if you like.

Preheat your oven to 230 degrees celsius and bake for 30-35 minutes. My oven, unfortunately likes to burn things so the top of my loaf was a little overdone. 

Saying that, It still turned out very well and tasted DELICIOUS. 

Below, I made an open sandwich for my lunch with the fresh loaf. I toasted the bread slightly then added home made pesto, home made hummus, sautéed mushrooms and then topped with baby spinach leaves. I also garnished it with balsamic vinegar and cracked black pepper. It was a beautiful lunch.