Brea's no-kneed, one-bowl '5 bread'

Image 1: Chicken schnitzel focaccia

Here's my recipe for an easy and yummy flat/focaccia bread that is packed full of goodness. It has five different types of seeds and 5 different types of flour but you can easily skip all of that and just use only plain flour and replace the seeds with some yummy herbs and parmesan cheese (or go all out and make this stunningly delicious rosemary garlic focaccia). Make the dough in the morning to eat for lunch.

Ingredients

7g (1 sachet) instant yeast

1 cup of warm water

1/2 tspn. honey

50g plain or greek yoghurt

3/4 cup plain flour

1/2 cup semolina 

1/4 cup wheatgerm

1/4 tapioca flour

1/4 cup buckwheat flour

1 tspn. each of poppy seeds, sunflower seeds, linseeds and pumpkin seeds/pepitas 

Enough sesame seeds to sprinkle over the top (as much as you like)

Method

  1. Mix the yeast, warm water and honey together in a bowl. Let it sit for 5-minutes until the water becomes foamy. Use a bowl that has a lid with a vent if you have one as you can leave the bread in there to rise.
  2. Add the yoghurt, seeds (not the sesame seeds), plain flour and semolina. Mix gently just to moisten the flour. Let it sit for another 5-minutes.
  3. Add the remaining flours (wheatgerm, tapioca and buckwheat) and mix until combined. The dough should be solid enough to rest in a ball shape but not too hard (Image 2).
    Image 2: Dough before it rises

  4. Leave the dough to rise in the container (or covered with a towel) for at least 1.5hrs at room temperature.
  5. Pre-heat your oven to 160-80 degrees Celsius fan forced. Different ovens will require a hotter or cooler temperature, you'll soon find out which one yours needs!
  6. Spread the dough flat on a baking pan in the shape you want to bake it in. It will increase in size by about 50%. Let it rest for 20-minutes before putting in the oven so it can rise a bit more (Image 3).

Image 3: Resting while the oven heats up

7. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the bread is firm to touch and you can smell the bready goodness waft through the house.

8. Enjoy warm with your favourite fillings (Images 4) or even use it as a cheeky 'I made it from scratch' pizza base (Image 5)!
Image 4: Crumbed fish, salad and feta focaccia


Image 5: This recipe makes a good pizza base!

Enjoy!

Feel like a vege and protein hit? Try my pumpkin and zucchini bread. Perfect as thick sandwich bread, toast or by itself!

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