This recipe serves as an excellent base to use your imagination when it comes to adding ingredients to taste. As written, it would be a bit too bland for me but with tweaks, it was delicious. I don't have a bread machine so did this by hand. Plumped about 8 sundried tomatoes in 1 cup of water and used the water for plumping, in the bread. Also crushed 2 cloves of garlic, added double (at least) asiago, and also added parmesan. Didn't have amaranth flour so used spelt. Any kind of nutty, earthy flour can be used to replace the Amaranth. Tuscan blend seasoning for the basil. This took about 75 minutes to proof on the first rising, and about 50 minutes on the second. Baked at 400 for 30 minutes and it produced a beautiful loaf soft on the inside. Make sure that you don't chop the tomatoes too fine..they get lost in the bread. I'm glad I had some in larger pieces. Veriations are endless. Could also throw in some calamata olives. This is sure to compliment any Mediterranean or Italian based dinner. The color is lovely with using the water from the tomatoes. Thanks for this recipe which is sure to please DH.
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