One-Step Bread Dough

Name: One-Step Bread Dough
Yield: Makes 800 g dough, enough for any of the loaves or rolls in this chapter
Ingredients: 1½ teaspoons non-iodized salt or fine sea salt; 315 ml warm tap water, about 38°C; 7 g sachet active dried yeast; 475 g bread flour or unbleached plain flour; 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus ½ teaspoon for oiling the bowl

Essential Technique

Preparation info

Makes
800 g
dough, enough for any of the loaves or rolls in this chapter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

Using this new mixing technique means this bread is ready in hardly any time at all. I like to add a little olive oil to this dough for flavour as well as tenderness - a little secret touch that many bread bakers use.

Ingredients

475 g bread flour or unbleached plain flour
1½ teaspoons non-iodized salt or fine sea salt

Bread
Vegan

Method

Mix the flour and salt together in a small bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk the yeast into the water. Wait 30 seconds, then whisk again to make sure all the yeast is dissolved. Whisk in the oil.
Use a large rubber spatula to mix in half the flour to make a paste. Add about half the remaining flour, mixing it in by repeatedly digging down to