Feta Cheese Bread With Tomatoes and Olives

Loaded with Mediterranean flavors of savory olives and feta cheese, whole roasted cherry tomatoes, and dried oregano. This feta cheese bread is a rustic meal right on its own!

Feta, olives, tomatoes, and bread are staple everyday foods in the Mediterranean diet. Eating a tomato salad with feta, olives, and plenty of olive oil for bread dipping is a classic Greek way of eating in the summer.

Table Of Contents

• Ingredients
• Additional Ingredients
• No Knead
• How To Make
• Serve With
• Recipe

In this recipe, all these ingredients combine to make this delicious Feta Cheese Bread With Tomatoes And Olives. That's soft and fluffy with a crunchy crust on top.

Ingredients

• All-purpose Flour
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Dry Instant-yeast
• Dried oregano
• Feta Cheese
• Green Olives (may use Kalamata olives instead). I use whole olives, remove the pits, and chop them. But you can use pitted olives or olive slices instead.
• Cherry Tomatoes (not very large ones).

Additional Ingredients

• Peppers. Green bell peppers or a mix with sweet red peppers cut into thick slices and add on top.
• Onions. Cut into thick round slices and add on top with the cherry tomatoes.
• Mushrooms. Again used the same way as the peppers and onions mentioned above.
• Kaseri cheese. Or other yellow-melting cheese. You can add inside the dough or add some grated on top.

No Knead

There's no need to knead this feta cheese bread! And that means you don't need a mixer either. But if you don't want to get your hands dirty with dough, you can certainly do so.

All this bread needs is resting and some folding. The dough is pretty sticky just like when making sourdough bread. Which means all you need to do is some folding and a bit of slapping. Both of which activate the development of gluten.

How To Make

To make this Mediterranean cheese bread, you first make the dough and let it double in size. This will take from 1 to 2 hours. Depending on how warm is the environment in your home.

It usually takes 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes at a room temperature of 20°C (68°F) to 25°C (77°F). It may take 2 hours or more if your room temperature is lower than that. In that case, to speed up the rising of the dough, heat your oven to 50°C (120°F) for 5 minutes then turn it off and place the bowl with the dough inside, covered with a dampened tea towel (moisture also helps the yeast to rise).

Alternatively, if your oven has a proofing setting, set it to 35°C (95°F) and add the dough. But without switching the oven off in this case.

After the dough has risen, press to remove the air. Then add the oregano, feta cheese, and olives. Fold many times for the ingredients to spread evenly inside. Next, add plenty of extra virgin olive oil in a round pan and place the dough inside. Flatten it with your hands to fit inside the pan.

Finally, add the cherry tomatoes on top. Press them with your fingers into the dough. And you are ready to bake!

Serve With

Serve this delicious Mediterranean bread with some olives and a Greek dip such as Eggplant Dip (Melitzanosalata), Whipped Goat Cheese, Red Pepper Feta Dip (Htipiti), or a Greek Salad.

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