Nettle – an excellent source of iron, but very few people know that from a grass it is possible to make fragrant, unusual bread with a greenish shade. Surprise the relatives with the unusual recipe!
It is required:
- Nettle leaves – 100 g;
- unsalted oil – 2 tsps;
- small cut onions – 500 g;
- flour – 2 tsps;
- sea, small salt – 2 tsps;
- fresh yeast – 7 g;
- ground black pepper – to taste;
- green onions – to taste.
It is desirable to collect a nettle on fields and meadows, far away from the city and the automobile route (so the plant absorbs less poisonous substances). Choose the clean, not faded in the sun leaves.
Wash out nettle leaves under flowing water. Not to burn, do it in gloves. Bring to the boil a deep pan with the boiling, added some salt water, add a nettle, blanch within two-three minutes. Scalding is a short-term processing of a product steam.
Let's leaves cool down, cut or tear a nettle family leaves hands on average pieces (as the Beijing cabbage on Caesar Salad) salt, strew with grated nutmeg and remove a pan aside.
Kindle a desi in other pan, add onions. Our purpose is not to roast onions to a golden crust, and only slightly to warm it, then the taste and aroma will reveal completely.
In a deep bowl mix flour, salt, green onions and the prepared nettle. In the center of greens make small deepening (small well).
Fill a yeast powder in a small amount of water, stir before full dissolution, pour in deepening. Knead dough within 10 minutes.
Place dough in the oiled bowl, cover with damp fabric and let's stand 60-90 minutes until it inflates twice.
Lay out ready dough on a clean surface of a table, create loaves of one size, place in the forms oiled. Cover, and leave dough for 60 minutes (then it will turn out more magnificent).
You watch that dough didn't go a form over the edges. Bread has to rise by two thirds and to be below edges of a form on several centimeters.
Warm an oven to 220 degrees, put a baking tray for frying on a bottom. Place forms with bread inside.
In 25 minutes take loaves from forms, again put in an oven and bake 8 more minutes.
The first 25 minutes it is possible to bake bread on couple – add ice cubes to a tray or add a little cold water.
It is possible to serve krapivny bread not only to soups, but also as separate, very original snack. Prepare a namazka from garlic arrows with oil, strew from above with small cut fennel. Bread can be fried from two parties, to grease with curds with sour cream, to strew from above with cheese or small cut garden radish.
Don't puzzle over what to prepare tonight - krapivny bread the ideal recipe to surprise guests.