Get pleasure from as it’s with additional virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar for dunking, or smear with comfortable goat's cheese and prime with a handful of rocket

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:30 minutes
  • Cook dinner:30 minutes
  • plus rising and proving
• Extra effort
• Serves 8

• Freezable

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Components

• 500g pack bread combine (we used ciabatta)
• 15 sage leaves, 5 finely shredded, the remaining left complete
• 4 tbsp good-quality olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• plain flour, for dusting
• 4-5 contemporary figs, thickly sliced
• ½ onion, sliced as thinly as attainable
• 100g serrano ham slices
• flaky sea salt, for sprinkling

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Tip the bread combine into a big mixing bowl with the shredded sage and 1 tsp freshly floor black pepper. Put 2 tbsp of the oil and the garlic in a jug with the quantity of water said on the bread combine pack. Stir the liquid into the dry substances with a wood spoon, then deliver the dough collectively along with your arms and knead for five minutes on a floured floor till easy. Return to the blending bowl, cowl with oiled cling movie and depart to rise till doubled in measurement.

• STEP 2

  Punch the dough just a few occasions to knock out the air, then divide into 8 parts. Roll every to a flattish bap form on a flippantly floured floor and organize in a roughly 20 x 30cm roasting tin. Toss the entire sage leaves, figs, onion and ham with 1 tbsp of the oil, then scatter these excessive. Use your fingers to press the toppings into the bread somewhat, and unfold the bread to fill any gaps. Cowl loosely with oiled cling movie and depart to rise for 20 minutes till it has overvalued.

• STEP 3

  Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/fuel 4. Drizzle over the remaining oil, sprinkle with sea salt and black pepper, and bake for 30 minutes till risen, golden and crisp on prime. Go away to chill within the tin for 15 minutes, then switch to a wire rack to chill fully. Pack again into the tin to move to a picnic, and tear the bread into 8 parts.