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Food: Productive cooking tips that fit with your schedule
By Mark Woodward (vegan)
2 hr Training Run = Bread/Pizza dough
Follow this easy recipe for great breads and pizza bases that you can forget about on your training run, and eat fresh once you get home.
Bread is actually really simple to make by hand, but does intimidate people. Give this a go and see how easy it is.
Ingredients:
20g fresh yeast or half packet of dry active yeast
400ml warm water
2-2.5 times the volume of flour to water + extra. This can be strong white bread, whole-wheat etc
1-2 tsp salt
Pizza topping
Directions:
Pour the warm water into a large bowl and add the yeast. For
fresh yeast (much better if you can get it) you need to wait a
few minutes for it to dissolve, and dry yeast mixes in quite
quickly. You can add a pinch of sugar to help start the process
off.
Mix in half of the flour with a whisk or fork, then add the salt
to the remaining flour (yeast and salt aren‟t good mates) and
stir this in with a spoon until the dough is quite firm and needs
to be finished off by hand. Don‟t worry about putting too much
flour in, excess will not get incorporated.
Lightly flour a smooth surface or chopping board and turn out
the dough mixture. Now you need to actually do a little work.
Kneed the dough for about 10 minutes. Using the palms of your
hands start in the centre of the dough and push out, folding the
dough back and turning all the time. This breaks down the
gluten and makes the dough airy. Once the dough feels smooth
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