Tomato bread

Tomato bread is a wonderful treat, but when buying semi-dried or dried tomatoes, make sure that they don’t contain too much salt. Unfortunately, most of them have too much. Once you’ve found the right ones, it will be a super healthy meal, as always.

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Tomato bread

The tomato bread is so tasty, moist and spicy. It's perfect with a spread or with soup and a vegetable dish.

Course bread

Keyword dry yeast, herbs, Oregano, semi-dried tomatoes, Whole spelt flour

Prep Time 3 hours hours 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 55 minutes minutes

Total Time 4 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings 4 person

Ingredients

• 750 g whole spelt flour
• 8 g salt
• 9 g dry yeast
• 2 tsp sweet paprika powder
• 3 tsp italian herbs
• 2 tsp oregano
• 550 ml lukewarm water
• 50 g semi-dried tomatoes
• 50 g whole spelt flour extra to work in

Instructions

• Mix the flour with the dry yeast. Add the salt, paprika powder and herbs.
• Add water and knead the dough.
• Cut the semi-dried tomatoes into small pieces and knead into the dough.
• Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for 1 hour.
• Then slide onto a floured surface.
• Dust the dough with flour, knead it, stretch it twice, roll it up and then round it with flour.
• Line a round cake tin with baking paper. Pour in the dough. Cover and leave to rise again at room temperature for approx. 2 hours.
• In the meantime, preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius top/bottom heat.
• Place the baking tin with the dough in the oven. Bake uncovered at 220 degrees for 10 minutes.
• Then reduce the temperature to 200 degrees and bake for a further 20 minutes.
• Reduce the temperature to 190 degrees, cover the bread with another sheet of baking paper and finish baking. The total baking time is 55 minutes.

Notes

Tip

You can of course also use dried tomatoes. However, these usually have more salt than semi-dried tomatoes.

Interesting to know

Dried tomatoes are dried until they are almost completely dehydrated. This makes the taste sweeter and more concentrated. The texture is firmer. The taste of semi-dried tomatoes is also very intense, but they are softer in texture.