Peppadew® African Foccacia (flat bread)

What you'll need

300g cake flour 

150g fine maize meal 

2tbsp honey 

80ml olive oil

20ml olive oil to drizzle over bread 

500ml (2 cups luke warm water) 

1tbsp sugar 

5g dry yeast

4 drops Peppadew® piquanté Pepper splash-on sauce 

½ tsp salt

½ bunch African wild spinach (or everyday spinach)

1 cup (130g) Peppadew® whole piquanté peppers HOT (shredded) 

Salt to crush over bread

How you do it

1. Dissolve yeast in luke warm water with the sugar or use as instructed in the packet with the sugar until it resembles a creamy consistency. In a clean bowl sift together flour and maize meal.

2. Mix water with the dissolved yeast, honey, splash-on sauce, salt and oil pour over the flour. Knead for about 10min taking care not to over knead. Knead in ½ chopped African spinach until dough should just stretch. 

3. Divide the  dough into 2 balls to make 2 focaccia. Dust a baking tray with flour and press in the dough. Put a kitchen towel over the pans and let the dough rise in a warm place until it is roughly twice its original size, about 35 to 40 minutes. 

4. Flatten the bread and then roughly press the shredded piquanté peppers, chopped coriander and the remaining spinach into the bread.

5. Crush some salt over the flattened bread, brush with the oil and bake in a pre-heated oven for 30min or until golden brown.

6. Remove from the pan and cool on the racks, serve with Bloody Mary a la Peppadew.