Olive Pinwheel Bread Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the oil, sugar, salt and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a firm dough., Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Punch dough down. Roll into a 16-in. x 12-in. rectangle. Sprinkle olives to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seams to seal and tuck ends under. Place seam side down on a greased baking sheet. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 20 minutes., Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Put the flour, salt, sugar and yeast together in a mixing bowl. Mix well.
• Tear olives with your fingers (you can chop them up, if you'd prefer to) and add to the dough and mix well. Using your finger, make a dip in the dough and pour in the water and oil.
• Mix with a fork until its sticky. Lightly sieve the worktop with flour, and knead the dough on the table. Put back into the bowl, cover with a towel and leave in a warm place for 45-60 mins.
• Preheat oven at 210ºC Fan/ 230ºC/Gas 8
• Tear the dough into 8 small balls, put in a lined baking tray and grase the dough balls.
• Cook for 10 mins, until ready.

Steps:

• Unroll dough onto a VERY lightly floured surface.
• Brush whole top with olive oil.
• Sprinkle evenly with rest of ingredients, except egg yolk and additional parmesan.
• Roll up, jelly-roll style starting from short end.
• Pinch seam to seal well.
• Place seam side down onto lightly greased baking sheet.Tuck ends under.
• Brush with egg yolk. Sprinkle with more parmesan cheese.
• Bake in 350º oven for 23-28 minutes til nicely golden brown.
• Cool a little bit, slice, serve with bread dipping oils, or just olive oil and balsamic vinegar slightly swirled together.

Steps:

• Hand-squeeze out as much excess moisture in the olives as possible before chopping, and make certain to chop finely.
• In a bowl combine cream cheese with garlic, mayonnaise, green and black olives, green onions and black pepper; mix to combine well.
• Spread a thin layer of the cream cheese mixture over each tortilla, then sprinkle a small amount cheddar cheese over the top of the cream cheese.
• Roll up each tortilla as tightly as possible.
• Place each tortilla onto a plate.
• Cover with plastic wrap and chill for a couple of hours or up to 24 hours (a longer chilling time will only improve on the flavor).
• Slice each tortilla into about 1-inch pieces.