The fillings on your sandwiches are baked into the bread right here, making this a simple picnic choice. To make it veggie, search for a vegetarian pesto

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:40 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:30 minutes
  • plus rising and proving
• Extra effort
• Serves 10 – 12

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Elements

• 500g robust white flour
• 7g fast-action yeast
• 2 tbsp olive oil, plus slightly additional
• small pack basil, leaves picked
• 2 x 125g mozzarella balls
• 2 tbsp pine nuts, toasted
• 3 tbsp inexperienced pesto

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Put the flour, yeast and 1 tsp salt in a big bowl, guaranteeing the yeast and salt don’t contact. Pour in 350ml lukewarm water and the olive oil, and produce along with a spoon to type a moist, elastic dough. If utilizing a stand mixer, knead for five minutes or till the dough stops sticking to the aspect of the bowl. If kneading by hand, knead for 10 minutes on a frivolously floured floor.

• STEP 2

  Put the dough in a frivolously oiled bowl, cowl with a clear, damp tea towel and depart to rise for 1 hr or till doubled in dimension.

• STEP 3

  Line a 20 x 30cm roasting tin with a chunk of crumpled baking parchment. Minimize the dough in half and press, as frivolously as doable, one half into the roasting tin, stretching it out to fill the tin. Cowl with the basil, mozzarella and pine nuts, then unfold out the opposite half of the dough and place on prime. Cowl and depart to rise for 1 hr or till gentle and puffy.

• STEP 4

  In the meantime, warmth oven to 200C/ 180C fan/fuel 6. As soon as risen, press indents along with your fingers into the highest of the dough. The dough is prepared if the indents keep; in the event that they bounce again, depart the dough for longer. Fill the indents with pesto, then sprinkle with slightly flaky sea salt and drizzle with slightly olive oil.

• STEP 5

  Bake on the highest shelf of the oven for 25-30 minutes, with out opening the oven door, till golden.

• STEP 6

  Switch to a wire rack and depart to chill utterly. Take to your picnic entire and slice into 10-12 sandwiches when serving.