About the bake
Packed full of flavour from the sundried tomatoes, this tomato based bread is a great starting point for those looking to add something a little extra to their everyday bread recipes.
Our recipe is the perfect ‘how to’, so you can look forward to serving this delicious loaf as a starter, with fresh olives, balsamic and olive oil to dip – is there a better match for fresh sundried tomato bread straight out of the oven?
If you’re ready to give another dough recipe a go, which makes something other than bread – try our pizza dough recipe and bake with a topping of your choice!
Method
Step 1:
Put the flour, salt, parmesan, sundried tomatoes and paste into a large bowl.
Step 2:
Add the chopped herbs and easy bake yeast, then pour in the warm water.
Step 3:
Mix together with your hands until the mixture combines to make a rough dough ball.
Step 4:
Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and stretch and knead the dough for 10 minutes until smooth and elastic.
Step 5:
Shape into a 23cm (9inch) round. Put into a greased 23cm (9inch) round tin. Press lots of indentations into the top of the bread with your finger. Scatter over a few extra herbs, drizzle with some of the olive oil from the sundried tomatoes and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
Step 6:
Cover loosely with cling film. Leave in a warm place until doubled in size (this will take about 30-40 minutes.)
Step 7:
Preheat the oven to 220°C (fan 200°C, gas mark 7). Remove cling film from bread and reduce the oven temperature to 200°C (fan 180°C, gas mark 6). Bake the bread for 35 minutes until golden.
Ingredients
- 425g Allinson's Strong white bread flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 40g Parmesan (freshly grated)
- 50g Sundried tomatoes (chopped and drained from oil)
- 3 tbsp Sundried tomato paste
- 2 tbsp Oregano (or rosemary, plus a few extra sprigs finely chopped)
- 1 Easy bake yeast sachet
- 225ml Water (warm)
- 1 Rosemary (sprigs)
- 425g Allinson's Strong white bread flour
Recipe Reviews
Really tasty
Can I substitute easy bake yeast with instant yeast or active dry yeast?
Easy Bake Yeast is an instant yeast that can be added straight into your ingredients. If you are however looking to use a dried active yeast that needs activation in warm liquid beforehand, we would recommend that 7g/1 sachet of Easy Bake Yeast is the equivalent to 15g of Dried Active Yeast, you will also need to subtract the amount of liquid that you use for activating the yeast from the amount of liquid specified in the recipe
Really easy, quick proving time and always turns out well. I don't always have parmesan so use any hard cheese l have in.
Bloody lovely. That is all!
Excellent! My family loved this loaf and they were delighted with the flavour.
Very easy recipe, and being in Sicily used my own sundried tomatoes and paste( we had a good harvest). Prefer cacchiocavallo cheese instead of parmesan but came out very good.
Ingredients
- 425g Allinson's Strong white bread flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 40g Parmesan (freshly grated)
- 50g Sundried tomatoes (chopped and drained from oil)
- 3 tbsp Sundried tomato paste
- 2 tbsp Oregano (or rosemary, plus a few extra sprigs finely chopped)
- 1 Easy bake yeast sachet
- 225ml Water (warm)
- 1 Rosemary (sprigs)
- 425g Allinson's Strong white bread flour