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Viewed: 17 - Published at: 4 years agoIngredients
- 3 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 cups unbleached white flour or 2 cups barley flour
- 3 1/2 tablespoons dry active yeast
- 2/3 cup cornmeal
- extra cornmeal, for dusting top and placing on tray under bread
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 1/2 cups water, tepid 110-115 degrees F
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons salt
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- This bread should not be "dense" with no air bubble pockets inside. You will need to flatten it as much as you possibly can; pull, stretch and flatten to no more than 1/2 inch. Should it come out dense, then next time cut the dough in three and make 3 loaves. Please don't go by my photo as this batch "over-rose.".
- Combine 1/2 cup flour, sugar, salt, yeast and water in bowl. Stand, covered, in a warm place until bubbly.
- Add remaining flour, and cornmeal into a large bowl. Add the oil. Add yeast mixture to the flour in the bowl.
- Mix with hands well to form a firm dough.
- Knead until smooth.
- Stand, covered, in a warm place 20 minutes.
- Shape into 2 rounds (depending on the diameter you desire as Moroccan bread comes in many sizes right down to little ones for sandwiches). Score the top with a sharp knife 1/8" deep into 4 (cutting an X shape), or using your thumb make a dent in the center nearly deep enough to be a hole, though not all the way through.
- Place on a baking sheet dusted with corn meal and dust the top also with the corn meal gently pushing it into the dough a bit.
- Stand, covered, until nearly doubled. This being so flat and the amount of yeast, it may not exactly double for you in size and that is fine.
- Bake 12-18 minutes.
- If you are making a Moroccan meal and will use bread to eat with you will need at least 2 loaves for 4 people. Cooking time includes standing and is an approximation as flours and temperatures differ.
- This bread freezes well. Simply freeze as you would any bread and defrost at room temperature. I freeze mine in tied white translucent plastic bags, similar to grocery plastic bags.