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Friday, June 19, 2009

Onion and Dill bread

Swedish Bready-dilly-insecty goodness

We have a lovely Dill plant growing out back, so this was the perfect way to use some of it up and make delicious bread. There were a LOT of bugs on the dill, and I'm sure on or two of them must have gotten past me, even though I gave it a good wash. However, nobody cared because On our taste scale of 1-10 (1 being McDonalds, 10 being michelin star deliciousness) Lucy reckoned this got a 9, which is the highest yet, but secretly I would give it an 11. Yes it was bloody delicious and disappeared very quickly. Especially perfect with the left over cream cheese spread on it and some nice smoked salmon.






























Thanks to Cafe Nilson for the recipe.

Ingredients: 1 sachet fast
acting dried yeast
500g strong white flour1 red onion, sauted
125 ml warm water

1 big bunch fresh dill, chopped

100g cream cheese

2 tbsp oil

1 tsp salt

1 egg


Mix the flour, salt & yeast in a bowl and add the egg, creamcheese, cooked onions, chopped Dill and oil. Mix first using a paddle, then add the water in a slow stream, using a mixer with a dough hook to mix everything together. If there is still flour left at the bottom of the bowl add a very small amount more water, if its too sticky add more flour. Leave the dough hook on to knead the dough for 4-5 mins (or kneak it using elbow grease for 10-15mins) or until you have a smooth, elastic consistency.
Oil the bowl and put the dough in, cover with oiled clingfilm.

Leave in a warm place to rise for
1 hour. Knock the
dough back and shape into 5 or 6 equal sized balls. Oil a big round cake tin with a heavy bottom, and put the dough balls inside in a circle. leave to rise again for 45 mins until the dough has
risen to the brim of the tin.














Bake at gas 7/250 C for 40 mns or so, or until its browned and the bottom sounds hollow when you tap it. Resist the urge to cut this until its cooled down as you will squish it! Most delicious thing ever














Lucy and the Bread

1 comment:

Lu said...

A loaf of bread that is bigger and more delicous than my head - amazing