Simon Family Italian Crunchy Bread

Beautiful crunchy Italian bread. Great for scooping dip onto, serving with pasta or eating on its own. 

Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cups flour, more for dusting
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 120 g warm water
• 1 large pinch sugar
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp instant yeast (or active dry yeast)

Directions

1.      Preheat your oven to 230c. In a mixing bowl add the water, yeast, sugar and olive oil and mix. 

2.      Add the water and yeast mixture to your Vitamix High-Performance blender and then add flour and salt. Start your blender on its lowest speed and quickly increase to a higher speed and pulse. Use the tamper to push ingredients into the blades. 

3.      Take the dough out of the blender and place onto a floured surface.

6.      With floured hands fold the dough onto itself forming it into a round ball. If it is too dry, keep kneading the dough until it is nice and soft. Cover with plastic wrap for 30mins. Remove plastic wrap and divide dough into 6-8 pieces and knead each one by hand to form a round disc piece. 

7.      Place the bread dough on top of a lightly floured bench and using a rolling pin roll out each round piece into an oblong, add salt and a little olive oil and place onto a tray lined with baking paper and allow it to rest while your oven is heating up.

8.    Bake until golden brown.