Tear and Share

Garlic, Herb and Chilli Tear and Share.

Tear and Share is the quintessential example of the versatility of Bread, with an endless choice of flavour combinations. I make this 2 or 3 times a week using my bread maker to make the Dough, although you can make it by hand I chose this method for convenience.

Ingredients:

• 500g Flour, bread or plain is fine.
• 10g Salt.
• 7g Yeast, I use sachets of Hovis Fast Action Yeast.
• 40ml Oil of your choice.
• 250ml cold Water.
• 8" lined cake tin.

Coating:

• 125g Unsalted butter.
• 1 tbsp Garlic puree.
• 1 tbsp mixed herbs (Marjoram, Thyme, Parsley, Basil)
• 1 tbsp smoked Paprika.
• 1 tsp Jalapeno powder.

Topping:

• Sea Salt Crystals
• Chipotle Flakes

Method:

Weigh 500g of flour directly into the bread machine pan, I sit mine directly on the scales.

    Add 10g of salt, I prefer Sea Salt.

    Add 1 Sachet of Hovis Yeast (7g). You can use live yeast if you wish, prepare this with your normal method. Ensure to keep the Salt and Yeast separate, mixing them will retard the yeast and you will not get a satisfactory prove.

   

    Create a small well in the center and pour in the oil, you can use a flavoured oil if you wish to.

   Measure out 250ml of water.

   

   Add the water directly to the pan.

   If you are using a bread maker, set it to DOUGH, you only want to mix and prove you do NOT want to cook this in the bread maker. If you are making by mixer or hand then follow your normal method through to the 1st prove.

   After your bread has had the first prove, knock it back and you should have approx 800g of dough, tear this into balls weighing 23-25g each.

   Melt 125g unsalted butter in a jug, add the Garlic, Herbs, Paprika and Chilli powder and mix well, you may need to microwave for 5-10 seconds as you need a thin liquid. Drop the balls into this one by one and spoon them into the lined cake tin, starting in the center and working your way out in a spiral.

   

    Repeat this until all of the dough is used up.
    Wait until your dough is proved enough to have filled the spaces so all the balls are touching then drizzle the remainder of the mixture into the centers of each group, as the dough continues to prove the liquid will be adsorbed giving a lovely moist texture to the finished tear and share.

   Cover the cake tin and place somewhere warm for the second prove, and set your oven to Gas mk7.

   

   Sprinkle with Sea Salt crystals and the Chipotle Flakes then place in the oven on a middle shelf, bake for 30 minutes and then reduce the oven to Gas mk 6 and bake for a further 10 minutes.

   Remove from the cake tin immediately and slide off of the liner onto a rack to cool, or eat straight away.

   You can use any combination of flavours for the coating and topping.


 Enjoy...