Herb bread with garlic and nut
At a barbecue, the spicy herb bread can not be missing. But it also fits perfectly for lunch, as a snack in between or as an appetizer. The combination of parsley, garlic and walnuts makes the bread uniquely delicious and especially aromatic. It is very easy to make with this recipe.
Servings 1 loaf of bread
Equipment
- 25 cm x 10 cm loaf tin
Ingredients
for the dough
- pre-dough
- approx. 300 g flour**
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 heaped tsp. salt
- vegetable oil for baking tin and work surface
for the filling
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 5 cloves of garlic peeled
- 30 g walnut kernels**
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pinch of salt or to taste
- 1 pinch of nutmeg or to taste
- 1 pinch of black pepper or to taste
Instructions
Preparation of the pre-dough
- Dissolve fresh yeast and sugar in lukewarm water.
- Add flour and mix.
- Cover the pre-dough and let it rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Preparation of the dough
- Add salt as well as portions of flour to the pre-dough and knead it into a soft, slightly sticky dough.
- Knead vegetable oil into the dough.
- Knead the dough for 8 - 10 minutes and let it rise covered in a warm place for 45 minutes.
Preparation of the filling
- Press garlic cloves and mix them with olive oil.
- Finely chop walnut kernels.
- Chop parsley.
- Mix the parsley and walnut kernels with the garlic mixture.
- Season the filling with salt, nutmeg and black pepper.
Preparation of the bread
- Grease the loaf tin with vegetable oil.
- Lightly grease the work surface and your hands with vegetable oil and put the dough on the work surface.
- Roll out the dough into a long rectangle about 25 cm wide (like the length of the loaf tin).
- Spread the parsley garlic nut filling evenly on the dough and roll it up from the short side.
- Place the dough roll in the loaf tin and let it rise in a warm place for 20 minutes.
- Bake the herb bread in a preheated oven on the penultimate rack from the bottom at 356 °F (180 °C) for about 40 minutes. Cover it with baking paper after about 20 - 30 minutes if its surface becomes too brown.
- Remove the herb bread from the baking tin and let it cool on a wire rack.
Notes
- Instead of parsley you can use other herbs, such as basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme or sage.
- You can adjust the amount of garlic to taste.
- Instead of walnuts you can also use other nuts.
- Flavor the filling with spices of your choice.
- For the filling, you can also just put all the ingredients in a blender and finely chop.
- Instead of fresh yeast you can use dry yeast for the dough. For the recipe you will need 6 - 7 g of it.
- The amount of flour given may vary. Add only enough flour in portions until a soft, slightly sticky dough is formed.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the herb bread at the top of the post.