Green vegetable bread

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"This bright green bread is a conversation starter, and a genius way to used up leftover greens. If you don’t have leftover greens, a bunch of kale will deliver on both colour and flavour. I love baking individual breads for dinner guests and serving with this creamy, nutty pistachio butter – the green-on-green is so striking, and makes for cool sandwiches, too!" – Khanya Mzongwana

Ingredients

800 g cake flour
10 g instant dry yeast
1 t salt
200 g leftover green vegetables (or 200 g Woolworths green vegetable medley)
2 cups lukewarm water
4 T extra virgin olive oil
For the pistachio butter:
250 g butter, softened
100 g pistachios, shelled and roughly chopped
30 g parsley, roughly chopped

Cooking Instructions

1. Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Blitz the vegetables in a blender until smooth. Stir the vegetable purée and olive oil into the dry ingredients until a shaggy dough forms.

2. Gradually stir in the water until a pliable but sticky dough forms. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until firm and smooth.

3. Grease a bowl and place the dough inside. Cover with a tea towel and allow to prove for an hour. Twist the dough into rings and place on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 20–25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm with the butter.

4. To make the pistachio butter, place all the ingredients in a blender and blitz until smooth. Place in a container and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature 10 minutes before serving.

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Photograph: Jan Ras