Appetizer/ Lunch

Rustic Bread

This rustic bread recipe is the closest you can get to Maltese bread, less the lengthy process, and without the kneading. Enjoy the smell of bread making at your own home. This crusty, full-flavored bread is topped with typical Maltese ingredients which makes it a fantastic home-made hobza to enjoy with friends by the sea on a hot summer night.

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Rustic Bread

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By MC

Prep Time: 25 – Cooking Time: 1 hour 45 minutes – Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes

This rustic bread recipe is the closest you can get to Maltese bread, less the lengthy process, and without the kneading. Enjoy the smell of bread making at your own home. This crusty, full-flavored bread is topped with typical Maltese ingredients which makes it a fantastic home-made hobza to enjoy with friends by the sea on a hot summer night.

Ingredients

3 cups flour

2 Tablespoons of yeast

2 tsp salt

1 Tbsp olive oil

1.5 cups water

red elmar tuna

vitaly's capers

golden drop olive oil

fos kalamata olives

Instructions

1

In a bowl mix together the flour, yeast, salt, olive oil and water

2

Cover and let rest for an hour

3

Get dough out, cover with flour until it's not sticky

4

Fold it 4 - 6 times. No kneading.

5

Heat pan in oven for 30 minutes.

6

Throw the dough in the pan, cover with the lid and bake for 30 minutes at 200C

7

Remove lid and cook for a further 15minutes

8

Let it cool down and enjoy!