Recipe for Spring Onion Pesto and Asparagus Bread
This is flavourful bread that gets its unique taste from a combination of spring onions, garlic, nuts and herbs.
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Mixer
- Oven
- Baking Mould
- Knives and Chopping board
Ingredients
Ingredients needed to make Spring Onion Pesto
- 1 Bunch Spring Onions (5-6 Stems)
- 2 tbsp Pine Nuts
- 2 tbsp Grated Parmesan Cheese
- 3-4 Cloves Garlic
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Salt
Ingredients needed for making Bread
- 500 gm Refined Flour
- 7 gm Instant Dry yeast
- 7 gm Sugar
- 2 tbsp Spring Onion Pesto
- 1 cup Chopped Parsley
- 1 cup Finely chopped Asparagus
- Water, for kneading
Instructions
- Prepare the pesto by combining chopped spring onions, pine nuts, garlic, parmesan and olive oil.
- Grind them together into a fine paste. Keep it aside.
- In a small bowl, take about 30 ml water and add yeast and sugar. Wait till the yeast blooms.
- In a mixing bowl, add flour.
- Add chopped asparagus, parsley, pesto and sugar+yeast mixture.
- Combine.
- Now add water, a little at a time and knead a soft yet firm dough.
- Cover and rest the dough in a warm place for an hour.
- After an hour, you will notice that the dough has risen and doubled in size,
- Knock it and knead once more. Transfer the dough to a greased and dusted baking mould.
- Rest this dough in a warm place for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, the dough will rise again.
- Bake it at 200 deg C for 30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool completely before slicing it.
- Toast the bread on a pan with salted butter and serve.