Greek Country Bread

Category: Yeast bread
Kitchen: greek
Greek Country Bread

Ingredients

Wheat flour 500 g
Water (temperature 50 340 g
Dry yeast) 9 g
Salt 1 tsp

Cooking method

Greek Country Bread
Very popular among the Greeks, bread without kneading and consisting of only 4 ingredients and baked in an unusual way that everyone gets!
Greek Country Bread
Mix flour with salt and yeast, stirring constantly, gradually pour in hot water.
Greek Country Bread
Using a spatula, combine everything until smooth. Cover and place in a warm place for 45 minutes.
Greek Country Bread
The dough increases in volume by more than 2 times.
Greek Country Bread
Preheat the oven to 250 "C and place a saucepan with a lid in it (you can use a special shape). And only then start molding the bread. I use an old pressure cooker without plastic fittings.
Greek Country Bread
Grind the surface with flour and place the dough on it, which is lightly sprinkled with flour on top. Use a spatula to scoop up the dough and sprinkle with flour on top again.
Greek Country Bread
Spread the dough into a rectangle with your hands and sprinkle with flour. From the narrow side, fold the dough from left to middle, and then put it on the right over the folded part.
Greek Country Bread
Lightly dust with flour again and fold in half. This will be the 1st folding!
Greek Country Bread
Use your hands to smooth the dough into a rectangle with flour.
Greek Country Bread
From the narrow side, fold the dough from left to middle, and then put it on the right over the folded part. This will be the 2nd fold. 3rd folding - repeat 2nd again.
Greek Country Bread
Gather the dough into a ball. Turn it upside down and form a nice smooth ball. Powder it well with flour and smooth evenly with your hands. Place on a plank and rest for 20 minutes.
Greek Country Bread
Without turning off the oven, using oven mitts, take out the pan. CAUTION!!! do not burn yourself !!! And remove the cover. Without touching the pan, throw the molded, suitable bread into it by weight and make an X-shaped incision with the tip of a sharp knife. Cover and place in the oven for 30 minutes.
Greek Country Bread
Reduce the oven temperature to 200 "C. Remove (carefully!) The lid and bake without it for another 15 minutes.
Greek Country Bread
Remove the bread from the pan by placing it on its side. Caution! When tapping on the lower crust, a rosary "ringing sound" is heard.
Greek Country Bread
The top crust is crispy, golden brown.
Greek Country Bread
I love to serve sauce dishes and salads in such bread (by removing the pulp)!

The dish is designed for

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Greek Country Bread

Trishka
Nice bread, and the recipe is not complicated, thanks, I took it in!
natapit
Ksyusha, thank you very much! Pekies for health!
Tusya Tasya
Natasha, bread is a lovely sight! Did I understand correctly that there is no proofer between folds? Yes, another question is ripe. We do not grease the pan with anything, will the bread stick to it tightly?
natapit
Natasha, everything is correct, no proofing between folding and nothing to grease! Thank you!
Maroshka
nimble bread, it is necessary to make for a change. I wonder what the difference is. In Thessaloniki, bread is mainly baked with fresh yeast.
And the bread is very beautiful and appetizing, it says straightforwardly: cook me
natapit
Maro, this recipe is from the Greek folk chef Papu (grandfather), so I didn't change anything. Thank you!
Maroshka
Quote: natapit

Maro, this recipe is from the Greek folk chef Papu (grandfather), so I didn't change anything. Thank you!
Yes, I don’t argue, I’m just saying that the difference is interesting, although ... there are many differences without it))) both the word kalamaki and souvlaki in you in Athens and in ours in Thessaloniki have different meanings, although one country, one language , and even more recipes. I will definitely make this bread in the near future
natapit
Quote: Maroshka
I will definitely make this bread in the near future
Highly recommend, good luck!
zvezda
Nataliawhat a great recipe !! And, as always, very beautiful!
If you can cook such beauty without a lid?
natapit
Olya, you must cover ... make a lid of foil. Thank you!
PS I love it when it's beautiful and not only for a photo, it's a habit, my husband always praises me to friends, but so that I don't hear ... Recently his friend was visiting us, treated us to pies, so he told her husband that pies were served like in a restaurant ..... and my husband, yes, we always have it!
zvezda
Quote: natapit
it's always like this with us!
Agree!! You have dishes, beautiful masterpiece!
I just have a Zepter lid, but you can't put it in the oven ... I'll think of something !!
natapit
Olya, good luck!
Sweetlana78
Good day ! Tell me what kind of flour you have? Top grade? Or the one made from durum wheat, yellow?
Svetlana777
NataliaThe bread is stunningly beautiful, thank you so much for the recipe, you should definitely try it.
Quote: zvezda
I just have a Zepter lid, but you can't put it in the oven ...
is that not simple? (I have a timer knob from the lid that can be unscrewed from the lid without problems, and there is nothing more forbidden)
natapit
Svetlana, wheat flour, ordinary. In Greece, there is no classification “Extra”.
natapit
Svetlana777, thank you very much!
Maroshka
I have a question here, looked at Dad's recipe, he has 10 g of yeast, but here in the recipe there are 5, and he has 10 salt? Didn't you like his grammar? HERE I think to mix just .. and in a stupor
Maroshka
In general, I did not wait for the answer, I made a grammar for dad according to the recipe))) Awesome bread
Greek Country Bread
natapit
Maro, error!!!! Yeast 9 g (I have such a package!) I will try to fix it !! Salt 1 tsp - right. Bread is handsome !!!

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