Green spinach bread is a bread with a crunchy crust and a soft crumb with an intense green color, very easy to prepare at home in a day. A dough rich in flavor and colorful, naturally obtained thanks to the spinach puree that combined with flour, water, and yeast, creates an original bread! What will surprise you about this bread is not only the color but also the ease and speed with which it can be made in a short time. In fact, it only takes a bowl, a spatula, and a little elbow grease to get a soft dough without having to use mixers or other tools. In a few hours, we will have a bread ready to bake that will fill the kitchen and the home with goodness!
The preparation is very simple: we mix the flours, spinach puree, water, and yeast and begin to mix. Finally, we add the salt and knead until we get a homogeneous sticky dough that we let rise for an hour. We make folds every 20 minutes and let it rise for another hour or until the dough doubles its volume. Then we take the dough and divide it into two parts forming loaves. Let them rest for another half hour covered and then bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes.
Very few ingredients, a dough that is made in a short time and that rises in a few hours. You can, for example, prepare it in the morning to have it ready for lunch or early in the afternoon to enjoy it for dinner. All you need to do is get the spinach and prepare it as soon as possible!
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Rest time: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 2
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients to prepare Green Spinach Bread
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
- 7 oz spinach
- 3/4 cups water
- extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp fresh yeast
- 1 tsp salt
Tools to prepare Green Spinach Bread
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Spatula
- 1 Baking sheet
- 1 Oven
Steps to prepare Green Spinach Bread
Prepare the spinach bread by first cooking the spinach: wash, drain, and place them in a large saucepan with the lid. Cook them without adding water or other seasonings until they are soft. Squeeze them well and blend them with an immersion mixer until reduced to a puree.
Pour the two flours into a bowl and add the blended spinach, water, and crumbled yeast.
Mix first with a spatula and add the salt, then work the dough with your hands. In the end, you should get a soft and sticky dough.
Place the dough in an oiled bowl and let it rise covered for an hour.
Make folds by bringing the dough from the outside to the inside and repeat this operation three times every 20 minutes.
Overall, the dough should rise for about two hours or until it doubles in volume.
At this point, deflate the dough and divide it into two parts. Shape them into loaves and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Dust them with flour and score them with a knife on the surface. Let them rest covered for at least half an hour.
Bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes.
Remove the spinach bread from the oven and let it cool completely before slicing and enjoying it.
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You can use only all-purpose flour.
With this dough, you can make one large loaf or smaller loaves or rolls.
You can also bake the bread using a cast iron pot as we indicated in the no-knead bread. In this case, you will need to first heat the pot in the oven and pour the bread dough into the hot container.
You can enrich the bread dough with black olives, or with walnuts, almonds, or other dried fruits, and if you want, you can sprinkle the surface with chia seeds, sesame seeds, or flax seeds.
