Cretan Bread - Cooking-ez.com

For 8 pieces, you will need:

0 150 ml green olives
1 150 ml onion
2 2 tablespoons olive oil
3 150 ml feta
4 150 ml Preserved tomatoes
5 1 litre 560 ml plain white flour (French Type 65)
6 650 ml water
7 25.2 mls fine (or table) salt
8 15 mls yeast
9 100 mls leaven (optional)
10 50 mls olive oil
11 1 tablespoon dry oregano

Change these quantities to make: 4 pieces 8 pieces 16 pieces 24 pieces

Change measures: Metric

Metric weight Metric volumes

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
38 min.	3 hours 20 min.	28 min.	4 hours 26 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Prepare the filling

Roughly chop 150 ml green olives.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Prepare 150 ml onion and slice into thin rings.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil into a saucepan on medium heat. Add the onions, salt and pepper, then mix well.

Cook uncovered without colouring for 2 or 3 minutes.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Add the onions, 150 ml feta and 150 ml Preserved tomatoes to the olives...

Stage 5 - 1 min.

...then mix all this together.

Stage 6

In bread-making, the water temperature is always important. It's not a fixed value, but related to 3 other temperatures: 1) the temperature of your flour, 2) the room temperature in your kitchen, and 3) the basic temperature of this recipe, which is 56-60°C.

You can calculate the temperature of the water for this recipe in one click, using this small calculator.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Put into a food processer bowl: 1 litre 560 ml plain white flour (French Type 65) *, 650 ml water, 25.2 mls fine (or table) salt, 15 mls yeast and 100 mls leaven.

*You can use a "strong" bread flour, if this is available.

Stage 8 - 16 min.

Knead on slow speed for 16 minutes.

Note: For the best way to knead, see: A few tips for effective kneading at home.

Stage 9 - 1 min.

Towards the end of kneading, add 50 mls olive oil in a thin stream.

Stage 10

Tip: you can use the oil from the preserved (or sun-dried) tomatoes as the olive oil.

Stage 11 - 1 min.

Finish by adding 1 tablespoon dry oregano.

Stage 12 - 1 min.

Add the filling mixture...

Stage 13 - 2 min.

...and knead just enough to mix this in.

Stage 14 - 2 hours

Gather the dough into a ball, transfer to a large, clean bowl and cover with a plastic sheet.

Leave to rest for 2 hours.

Stage 15 - 20 min.

After resting, weigh out the dough into 300 g lumps and shape into balls. Leave these to rest for 30 minutes, covered with a plastic sheet (so that they do not form a crust).

Stage 16 - 1 hour

After this, reshape the balls and put into "bannetons" (baskets).

Leave to rise, covered with plastic as before, for 1 hour.

Stage 17 - 2 min.

Preheat the oven to 480°F (250°C).

Just before putting in the oven, slash the top of the bread.

Stage 18 - 25 min.

Bake for about 25 minutes.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
5,434 Kcal or 22,751 Kj	142 gr	823 gr	239 gr
272 %	55 %	78 %	36 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
297 Kcal or 1,243 Kj	8 gr	45 gr	13 gr
15 %	3 %	4 %	2 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
679 Kcal or 2,843 Kj	18 gr	103 gr	30 gr
34 %	7 %	10 %	5 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

This recipe uses (among others)

	Plain white flour (French Type 65): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Leavened bread, Olive and pesto bread, Loaf for "les filles'", Pizza dough, Ali Baba bread, ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Leek and potato soup, Red mixed pickle, Lemon tart, Bacon rolls, Cassoulet, ... All
	Green olives: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Tomato foccacia, Olive and pesto bread, Loaf for "les filles'", Two-olive ciabatta, ... All
	Preserved tomatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spring Bread, Pasta with pesto and preserved tomatoes, Pan-fried chicken breast on mozzarella, Tomato foccacia, Sushi, ... All

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