Basic Bread Dough

Name: Basic Bread Dough
Yield: Makes about 450 g/1 lb of dough
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: pinch of sugar; 450 g/1 lb/4 cups strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting; 5 ml/1 tsp sea salt; 15 ml/1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing; 35 g/1¼ oz fresh/compressed yeast; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups warm water

Preparation info

Makes about
450 g
of dough

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

35 g/1¼ oz fresh/compressed yeast
300 ml/

Europe
Italy
Bread
Mediterranean
Vegan

Method

Mix the yeast and water together with the sugar, and add about 30 ml/2 tbsp of the flour. Put the yeast mixture in a lightly floured bowl and place it somewhere warm to rise for about 10-20 minutes.
Put the remaining flour on to the work surface. Make a well in the middle and pour in the yeast mixture. Work the yeast mixture into the flour, then add the salt an