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Artichoke buttons

Makes about 25-30. These are great for canapés and I'll be serving them for next week's Raki supper club.The dough recipe is from Richard Bertinet's 'dough' book, the olive dough.
Course: Bread, Canapes, Snacks
Cuisine: British
Keyword: Artichoke recipes, Bread buttons, Canapes
Servings: 25

Equipment

  • 2 baking sheets with parchment or silpats

Ingredients

  • 500 g strong bread flour
  • 20 g coarse semolina
  • 14 g fast action yeast
  • 10 g sea salt
  • 50 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 320 ml luke warm water
  • 2 jars whole artichoke hearts marinated in oil

Instructions

  • Mix the flour, semolina, yeast, salt, olive oil and water together in a bowl or stand mixer. Knead for ten minutes or mix with a dough hook for ten minutes on a low speed until the dough is coming off the sides of the bowl.
  • Oil a bowl with olive oil and leave the dough, covered with a damp tea towel or clingfilm, until doubled in size.
  • Prepare two baking trays with a silpat or parchment paper. Then, treating the dough carefully, cut it up into 25ml sections, weighing on a digital scale if you have one. Form a neat ball by tucking the dough underneath so that the 'seam' is underneath. Place the balls on the baking trays with a couple of centimetres gap (an inch) between each ball.
  • Then prod each artichoke into each ball of dough, pressing it down firmly.
  • Preheat the oven to 230ºc. Cover the balls and leave to proove for another half an hour.
  • Spray the oven with water. Bake the trays for 10 or 15 minutes until golden.
  • Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with rosemary salt.
  • Serve warm.