Beer bread

Name: Beer bread
Yield: Makes 1
Ingredients: 20g fresh yeast or 2 x 7g sachets of dried yeast; 20g runny honey; 500g strong bread flour, plus extra for dusting; 500g fine semolina flour, plus extra for dusting (if you can’t get hold of any semolina flour, plain flour will do); beer; optional: carraway seeds

Not Too Tricky

makes 1

About the recipe

This bread doesn’t have a really strong taste of beer – just the mellow, malty undertones coming through.

The Naked Chef, p189

nutrition per serving

Calories

32%

Fat

Saturates

Sugars

Salt

83%

Protein

40%

Carbs

53%

Fibre

of an adult’s reference intake

Recipe From

The Naked Chef

By Jamie Oliver

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Ingredients

20g fresh yeast or 2 x 7g sachets of dried yeast

20g runny honey

500g strong bread flour, plus extra for dusting

500g fine semolina flour, plus extra for dusting (if you can’t get hold of any semolina flour, plain flour will do)

beer

optional: carraway seeds

Method

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For the full recipe, head to page 189 of The Naked Chef.

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The Naked Chef Bread & doughs

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