Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread)

Name: Bolo do caco (Madeiran bread)
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 375 g Sweet potato; 375 g Bread flour; 9 g Active yeast; 220-230 ml warm water (boil sweet potato); Salt; Butter 1 small chunk; 2 cloves Garlic; Flat parsley

Jennifer Su @jennifersu_E

Bolo do caco is a typical Madeiran bread, made from flour, sweet potatoes, yeast, water and salt. It has a circular and flat shape and normally is serviced with garlic butter. The bread is crispy outside and soft inside. Really lovely... 😋

Jennifer Su @jennifersu_E

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Ingredients

6 servings

375 gSweet potato
375 gBread flour
9 gActive yeast
220-230 mlwarm water (boil sweet potato)
Salt
Butter 1 small chunk
2 clovesGarlic
Flat parsley

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Steps

1

Boil sweet potato in slightly salted water for 20 minutes.
2

Remove the softened sweet potato from the water and keep the water for later use.
3

Mash the sweet potato and let it cool down.
4

Wait until the water that boil sweet potato to cool down to be warm and get 150ml water to mix with yeast. Leave the yeast mixture aside for 10 minutes.
5

Add the yeast mixture into the mashed sweet potato and mix well. And then add in a tiny salt in.
6

Mix the mashed sweet potato with the flour.
7

Add in 80ml sweet potato water gradually in the dough and keep kneading until the texture shown as picture.
8

Sprinkle a bit flour on the top and cover the dough by a tea towel or clingfilm and let the dough do the first 40-minute fermentation.
9

When the dough is double sized, it’s ready for the further step.
10

Sprinkle some flour and divide the dough into 6 small doughs. Sprinkle more flour on the top of the doughs and cover by a tea towel for 2nd 15-20 minute fermentation.
11

Add mashed garlic, chopped parsley and salt into a soften butter and mix them well. And then put it into the fridge.
12

Heat the pan and put one dough in. Flat the dough a bit and fry one side for 5-10 minutes (depends on the size). Make sure both sides turn into golden brown and get the hollow sound when patting the bread.
13

Cover the ready cooked breads by a clean tea towel.
14

When serve the bread, just slice the bread and put some garlic butter inside of the bread like a sandwich and then cut the bread into quarters. Enjoy.