Salt bread

Ingredients

Method

• 324 g bread flour
• 4 T water
• 2/3  cup  full-cream milk
• 2 T fine salt
• 3 T sugar
• 10 g instant yeast
• 30 g butter, plus 200 g
• 50 g Grana Padano, grated  
• 4 t Woolworths ‘nduja paste (optional) 
• sea salt, to taste 

Method

Ingredients

1. Heat 14 g flour and the water in a small saucepan over a low heat, whisking to form a smooth paste. Slowly add the milk, whisking continually. Add the salt and remove from the heat.
2. Place the remaining flour, the sugar and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the flour-and-milk mixture and beat at a high speed with the dough hook attachment until a shaggy dough forms.
3. Reduce the speed and knead the dough until it comes together – you might be tempted to add more liquid but resist the urge!
4. Cut 30 g butter into small cubes and add them one at a time, mixing well until the dough is soft and the butter is well incorporated.
5. Cover loosely with a damp kitchen towel and set aside to prove for 1–11/2 hours.
6. Divide the dough into 8 pieces and roll into triangular shapes.
7. Cut the remaining butter into 8 equal pieces and roll in the grated Grana Padano.
8. Place a piece of butter at the wider edge of a dough triangle. Season with some ‘nduja paste and roll towards the thinner part of the triangle. Repeat with the remaining butter and dough.
9. Place on a baking sheet and prove for 45 minutes.
10. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Sprinkle the rolls with sea salt and bake for 15–18 minutes, or until golden, puffed and doubled in size.
11. Remove from the oven and brush the rolls with the butter that has seeped into the tray while baking. Sprinkle with the remaining Grana Padano and allow to cool for 3–5 minutes before serving.

Find more Grana Padano recipes here

Food production: Marcelle Van Rooyen

Food assistant: Bianca Jones

Photography: Shavan Rahim

Videography: Romy Wilson

With its crystalline, crumbly texture and mild, delicate flavour, it’s no mystery why Grana Padano is so popular. Its consistently excellent quality is a result of each wheel being examined at nine months by an impartial technician from the official Consortium of Grana Padano. Only after it has their approval does a wheel of Grana Padano receive its iconic firebrand – your guarantee of authenticity and exceptional flavour. It's the perfect additon to Japanese salt bread giving it a luxurious taste of Italy’s absolute finest.

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