Carbon Bread

Carbon Bread

This is a bread like no other, when you look at it, it is black. But the charcoal is great for your digestion and it tastes great.

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Cook Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Italian

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• 500 grams Type 0 Flour or Bread Flour
• 300 ml Water
• 12 grams Fresh Brewers Yeast
• 10 grams Charcoal Powder
• 8 grams Salt
• 2 tablespoons Olive Oil

Instructions

 

• In a bowl, with room temperature water, dissolve the brewer’s yeast.
• In another mixing bowl, add the flour and the charcoal, and mix.
• Add the water with the dissolved yeast to the flour and mix.
• Finally, add the oil and salt and mix well.
• Shape the dough into a ball and cover with plastic wrap.
• Let the dough rise for about 2 hours or until it has doubled in volume.
• Arrange the dough on a pastry board lined with parchment paper, make 3 folds and form a loaf.
• Let it rise for another hour.
• Preheat your oven to 400F.
• Make shallow transverse cuts on top of the loaf.
• Bake in a preheated static oven at 200 ° C for 20-30 minutes.
• Once the bread is baked, remove from the oven and let it cool.
• Your bread is ready to be enjoyed hot or cold!

Notes

A little advice tip: Use plastic gloves and make sure you line your work area with parchment paper.
The charcoal will make your hands black and whatever surface you are working on.

If you use all-purpose flour, add 50ml of water extra. The bread will be more of a grey-ish color.

This is a crazy bread that I found out about here in Italy. I went on a kinda first date with him and he took me to a restaurant in town. It was kind of late because he had just closed his restaurant, and this was one of the late night spots.

They brought out some bread and some stuzzichini and we were talking and I looked into the bread basket and saw this black bread. I thought, how strange. But I ate a slice, and it was good. just odd because it was black.

Anyways, I looked it up on the internet (LOL) because I didn’t want to be the dork asking him what kind of bread that was.

Whenever I see this bread, I grab it. I did eat a hamburger on a carbon bun one day. It was great. But, the temperature is changing and I want to make things in the oven. And this lead me to carbon bread.

I turned to giallo zafferano, which is my go to recipe place. And I read a few recipes that were on there and decided to give it a try.