How to make activated charcoal focaccia black bread
I know right, Black bread! How weird is that? Well actually if I'm honest with you... IT'S ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!! No it doesn't taste totally different, but the recipe we made for this is, as usual totally freestyled by my wife. But that's what she's famous for, freestyling recipes. Addionally, with the salt and the slightly different texture this bread has, it's worth trying belive me! Wait whay would anyone want to belive me, I'm a small fishy still? I'm a happy fishling though!
Ingredients
Things you'll need:
- 4 and a half cups carbon activated black flour, plus a little extra for kneeding
- 4 tbs dry sourdough
- 2 cups warm water
- 4 spoons olive oil
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 cup artichokes (in oil)
- 1 cup sundried tomatoes (in oil)
- 1 cup pitted green olives cut in round slices
- A few sprigs of rosmery and a small bunch of sage leaves
- Olive oil
- That really thick grained salt (Look at photo)
I am a delicious black bread please eat me!
Directions
The How to Make Part:
- Place the water in a small bowl and add the yeast. Stir for a minute or two as this helps the yeast to evolve.
- Add the 4 spoons of olive oil to your diluted water, stir again and let to rest for about 10 minutes.
- Grab a fairly large bowl and add your flour, salt and 3/4 of your yeast mix. Start mixing everything together with your hands and add more yeast mix if needed.
- Keep kneeding till you have a nice dough.
- Don't worry if your dough is a big gluey, once it rises a little that shall sort itself out.
- With a fresh dishcloth, cover the bowl with your dough for an hour, letting the dough rise. Come back after an hour, kneed the dough 1 more time for a few minutes and leave it to rest again for another 30. (This way, you'll get an awesome bread!)
- Pre-heat the oven at 200° (400F),
- Divide the dough in to 2 portions/halves. With your hands stretch one of the halves in the lenght and width forming an oval shape. Place the dough on your cooking tray. Make sure you have some baking paper on the tray and we greased that with a spoon of olive oil.
- Top your first half with tomatoes, artichokes, and olives.
- Now all you need to do is stretch out your second piece of dough to cover your first piece (I stretch them both at the same time beforehand usually)
- Gently close the edges making sure they're sealed and brush a spoon of olive oil around the seal and top.
- Decorate the top with artichokes, sundried tomatoes, sage and rosmary. Don't forget to add a few of the large salt grains, that makes it even more yummier!
- Bake for roughly 25 to 35 minutes, that will probably vary depending on the height of your focaccia bread. I usually make mine about 3cm high as you can see from the photos above.
- Once you think it's ready, I say think as it's hard to tell being black bread! Dip a tooth pick in to the top and see if feels ok.
TIP: We usually place a little ceramic bowl of water in the bottom of the oven when baking and we try not to open the oven door till we know it should be ready to come out. That way you'll avoid your bread from falling.
All recipes and photos are made by us. Us as in, 2 plant based freaks that basically cook all day long and wonder why our bathroom weight scales are going up in numbers! But we deal with it, in fact we blame it all on you!
Thanks for your time my fellow Steematarians, if you liked the recipe, please feel free to show some love. If you don't like Alien looking black bread that looks like it's turned in to a fossil, and you prefer picking stinging nettles to eat in a raw salad then let me know in a comment below!
Wow this is incredible! So creative! And with the potent addition of activated charcoal sounds very healthy :)
Hey @govegan! this is an awesome post! I actually found it while googling some charcoal recipes and this was just such an enticing image! I'm looking to do something like this but using keto-friendly ingredients like coconut and almond powder for the dough. Definitely appreciate all the prep steps and tips ! also followed! <3
Interesting, I have never seen anything like it
Thanks Jeff, as we saw the black flour in the shelf in an Italian supermarket, we were like, yep, this has to be done! hehe
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STOPThanks guys and gals, that's awesome!
yumn yumn, im gonna eat it all!!!! lamao
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Yum, that looks delicious! If I make it I'll be sure to defile your recipe by adding lots of garlic. ;) Thanks for sharing.
That's the great part of food, you can always redesign it and make it yours! Happy you liked it!
this looks really good. Fantastic details on picture and recipe and you've got a fan ! superupvoted.
Thanks man, I'm just so happy right now and so full of energy. I'm meeting so many cool and interesting people on all of my social media and I'm truly always happy for each and every fan!!! Means a lot, can't wait to give back to this community.
That's great @govegan , it's a really good post. Keep steeming 😁
Thank's for sharing this! It really looks.. umm.. interesting to be honest. But I'm curious now and want to try your recipe! The pictures are great!
Thanks Hazel420! This recipe would actually taste good activated with natures herb. You have to give it a go, as their is something special about it, I can't quite describe it though. Let me know how you get on!
Very nice post
Cheers Kingjan, I always try to put a little extra in to my work!
wow very interesting, looks like an artwork but because of the black color not really eatable^^
However, I am pretty sure that it is very delicious :)
Most of the time, my photos actually look better than the food, but this time round I have to say that black bread is just freaky cool, and I'm not sure if it really was the activated charcoal, but it tasted better than my noral homade focaccia bread! Thanks for the comment!
yeah it definitely is a really cool idea :)
Congratulations @govegan!
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blessed, I can't wait to be able to put this all back in to the community! It was a pleasant surprise.
say what? mind blown!
great!!!.. follow me and up-vote
Amazing! I love Italian food (like most people) but I have never seen black focaccia :) I want to try your recipe, but I don't know where I can buy carbon activated black flour in Poland :D Great post @govegan :)
jaw dropping! I don't know where to start.
So creative and the love and effort that you put in there.
See you around @govegan
Hey! Greatings from Venezuela! Amazing recipe!! I invite you to visit my posts. we got pastry recipes that i'm sure will interest you. Join us!
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Looks creepy delicious. 😁
Wow! Looks awesome im going to try this one.