Italian Food Recipes

The bread is always present in the Italian cooking and it is a typical Italian ingredients. In Italy there is hundred kinds of bread such as the bread with milk, the bread with oil, the bread of Altamura, the Sicilian bread, the Apulian bread, the Neapolitan bread, the Tuscan bread and many other. Each region in Italy has a typical kind of bread and each kinds of bread have a specific and typical recipe. Make bread at home is not hard. You need few and good ingredients such as flour, salt, sugar, extra virgin olive oil, yeast and water in order to make delicious and warm bread that you can eat immediately. Here is describes a simple recipe in order to make home bread with the help of the bread machine but if you want you can follow this recipe and knead the ingredients with hand. The time and the passage are the same. You can eat bread simply with a drizzle of oil, with a second course or you can use it as an ingredient of many Italian recipes.

INGREDIENTS (for 1 Kg of bread):
330 g of white flour
330 g of American or Canadian Flour (Manitoba flour)
330 g of Organic semolina flour (semola di grano duro)
25 g of Yeast
500 – 600 ml of water
3 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
1 Teaspoon of sugar
2 Teaspoon of salt

PREPARATION TIME: 10 minutes

COOKING TIME: 3 hours

PREPARATION
Place in a bowl the three different kinds of flours, the salt, the sugar and mix all together.

Dissolve the yeast in some warm water.


When the yeast is dissolved place the solution in the container of the bread machine and add in it the extra virgin olive oil. Add the flour and mix with the help of a tablespoon.


Then put the container inside the bread machine and let it knead and rise for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. The bread machine has different kinds of program: I usually use this.



At the end of the time, preheat the oven to 50° C, cover with a sheet of baking paper a baking pan, take out the dough and divide it into two parts without knead it. Make the shape of two long loafs and place them on the baking pan.



Turn off the oven and put in it the bread in order to let it rise for another 30 minutes. The loaf might double. Then turn on the oven to 180° C and cook the bread for about 30 – 40 minutes, until the surface becomes golden.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!