Leahs Easy Italian Bread Recipe

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Leahs Easy Italian Bread
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Ingredients:

  • cooking time does not include the time it takes your bread machine to run through its dough cycle, mine takes an hour and half.
  • i let my dough rise once shaped into a baguette shape, maybe 30 minutes, until it doubled - though it was a nice warm day today in the kitchen.
  • while the dough is rising, preheat your oven to 375 degrees. - you will be baking your bread for 25-30 minutes.
  • 3-1/4 cups bread flour
  • 2 tsp rapid-rise yeast - its a super active dry yeast (its packaging is bright yellow and pink)
  • 2-1/2 tbsp honey
  • 3 tbsp olive oil .
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 egg - for an wash right before you bake your bread, it leaves a beautiful shine to your bread and helps to allow the sesame seeds to stick.
  • lots of sesame seeds (optional but oh so good)
  • clean dish towel
  • if you have a gas oven (only) use of 1 or two ice cubes. do not add ice cubes to the floor of your electric oven, you could actually ruin your oven.

Directions:

  1. My bread machine requires the yeast to be added last, if your requires the yeast to added first, then do it in that order then add the flour and lastly the 'wet' ingredients.
  2. Select the dough cycle on your bread machine.
  3. Add warm water, then add honey, olive oil, salt.
  4. Add flour, then make small well, and add yeast.
  5. Turn on bread machine.
  6. Be ready once bread machine has finished its dough cycle, turn out dough onto floured surface.
  7. Turn on oven to 375 degrees.
  8. Let rest five minutes.
  9. Put parchment paper on cookie sheet.
  10. Then grab dough and knead for five minutes, then throw between hands as you see the pizza makers do, to soften the gluten in the dough.
  11. You can either roll (or do what I did) stretch out into rectangular shape with your hands, then roll up, into baguette shape.
  12. Place rolled dough with ends under and seal down onto the parchment paper on the cookie sheet.
  13. With knife, make diagonal slices onto top of bread.
  14. Cover with clean dish towel and let double in size - this can take anywhere from 30-100 minutes depending upon warmth in your kitchen.
  15. Break egg in bowl, and whisk.
  16. Uncover doubled bread dough, and using beaten egg, wash bread dough with egg wash all over, then sprinkle with sesame seeds. The more sesame seeds the merrier I feel.
  17. Place into your preheated oven and let bake for 25-30 minutes.
  18. If you have a gas oven, add 1 or 2 ice cubes to bottom of oven to help create steam in your oven during the first 10 minutes of cooking - helps create a super tender loaf of bread.
  19. Photo is of actual load I baked, roughly 4-5 inches tall and at least 14 inches long before I started eating it...lol
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 183.43 Kcal (768 kJ)
Calories from fat 41.48 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 4.61g 7%
Cholesterol 13.64mg 5%
Sodium 200.44mg 8%
Potassium 44.48mg 1%
Total Carbs 30.71g 10%
Sugars 3.59g 14%
Dietary Fiber 0.74g 3%
Protein 4.93g 10%
Iron 1.6mg 9%
Calcium 10.6mg 1%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 243.23 Kcal (1018 kJ)
Calories from fat 55 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6.11g 7%
Cholesterol 18.09mg 5%
Sodium 265.79mg 8%
Potassium 58.98mg 1%
Total Carbs 40.72g 10%
Sugars 4.76g 14%
Dietary Fiber 0.98g 3%
Protein 6.54g 10%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Iron 2.1mg 9%
Calcium 14.1mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 3.9
    Points
  • 5
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol

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