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                                  Lacasitos bread.

Ingredients :

2 teaspoons dry yeast

350 ml water

500 gr of bread flour

1.5 teaspoons of salt

200 gr lacasitos

Step 1:

Pour the yeast in a bowl with 100 ml of water. Leave for 5 minutes and then stirring to dissolve.

Step 2:

Mix the flour with the salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the center and pour the yeast water.

Step3:

With a wooden spoon, flour enough removed from the sides of the container and mixes with water to form a soft yeast dough. Cover with a kitchen towel and let stand 20 minutes until fluffy mass, a smooth consistency and increase slightly in volume.

Step 4:

Pour half of the remaining water in the center of the hole. Flour mixture in the center side of the container. Add remaining water as necessary, until it forms a firm, moist mass.

Step 5:

Pour the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead about 10 minutes, until smooth, shiny and elastic.

Step 6:

Put the dough in a clean bowl and cover with a kitchen towel. Fermented from 1.5 to 2 hours, until doubled in size. Deflate the dough and let rest 10 minutes.

Step 7:

Shape dough. Put on floured baking sheet and cover with a kitchen towel. Wait 45 minutes, until doubled in size by the end of fermentation.

Step 8:

 Bake in pre-heated oven at 220 ° C for 45 minutes, until the bread acquires a dark golden color and sound hollow when you hit the base with your finger.