Halloween Bread | Pumpkin Fougasse
A flat, crusty bread from Southern France is perfect as an appetizer or as an accompaniment to a soup or stew! Made into a scary pumpkin shape, this year our Pumpkin Fougasse is not only a lovely side dish but also a Halloween decoration!
Ingredients
- 200 g pumpkin puree
- 600 g strong white flour
- 7 g fast action yeast
- 260 g water
- 8 g salt
- 20 ml olive oil
- green and orange food colouring optional
Instructions
- In a bowl of your stand mixer, mix the strong flour, yeast, salt, water, pumpkin puree and olive oil.
- Place in your stand mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment and knead for 8-10 minutes on medium speed. The dough will be quite sticky but should become smooth and elastic.
- *** if you're using food colouring to make the orange pumpkin and a green stalk, take a bit of the dough out towards the end of the kneading process and mix in the green food colouring. Add the orange food colouring to the main dough bowl, and knead until fully incorporated***
- Shape a ball of dough and place it in a lightly greased bowl. Cover and leave to prove for 2 hours.
- Once doubled in size, split your doughs in half and line two baking trays with baking parchment.
- Shape pumpkins (or any other shape) by flattening the dough with a rolling pin, stretching the dough with your hands and using a sharp knife/ bread scorer. Attach the pumpkin stalk if you made one.
- Place the trays in a warm spot for 30 minutes covered with a lightly oiled cling film.
- Preheat the oven to 200° C Fan. Just before baking, make sure you stretch out any cuts you made for the eyes or mouth of the pumpkin using your fingers so that they don't close completely whilst baking.
- Bake your fougasses for 18-20 minutes until golden and crusty. Once baked, transfer onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Calories: 299kcalCarbohydrates: 56gProtein: 9gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 392mgPotassium: 127mgFiber: 3gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 3892IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg
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