braid

vegetarian

Look what we did with pizza!

Ingredients:

For dough:

250g plain flour

150ml warm water

7g fast action yeast

1 tablespoon salt

½ tablespoon olive oil
1 beaten egg

Filing:

½ cup tomato puree

½ tablespoon dry oregano

500g spinach

50g mozzarella

50g manchego cheese

Method:

Mix yeast with warm water and ½ tablespoon sugar and 3 tablespoons flour.
Leave for 10 minutes.

Put flour into bowl and add slowly yeast mixture. Add in to bowl olive oil and remaining water. Add a pinch of salt. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes.

Leave for 1 hour until it doubles in size.

In the meantime prepare the tomato sauce from this recipe.


Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until you can make a large rectangle. Using scissors cut edges into middle to leave approx. 10 cm in middle pastry. Please see photos below

Spread tomato sauce, spinach, grated cheese and mozzarella. Fold the pastry in to middle. Brush the pastry all the way round the edge with beaten egg

Leave to double size for 20 minutes.
Bake for 20 mins in 240C. Great served warm.