Onion nigella bread

Name: Onion nigella bread
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 20 g fresh yeast; 2 teaspoons nigella seeds; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 500 g bread flour; 1 cup Caramelised Onion; 1 egg yolk; fine rice flour; ½ cup thick plain yoghurt (at room temperature); 150 ml warm water; 1 teaspoon castor sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Spice

By Christine Manfield

Published 1999

About

This bread is fabulous with spicy food, pickles and chutneys. The yoghurt keeps the bread moist and soft-textured and the spice gives a kickstart of heat. The bread can also be baked as thin breadsticks to use as a base for a spicy canapé.

Ingredients

1 cup Caramelised Onion
500 g bread flour
1

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Spicy

Method

Warm caramelised onion gently in a saucepan.
Mix flour, salt and nigella seeds in bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook.
Dissolve yeast and castor sugar in warm water. Stir warm onion and yoghurt into yeast mixture, then immediately pour into flour and knead with dough hook on medium speed for 15 minutes.
Cover bowl with plastic