How to bake delicious bread

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  bakery

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

• Designed for

  1 serving

Ingredients

• flour
• salt
• sugar
• kefir
• soda

Bread is on the table both during dinner and at a large feast, because you cannot do without this product. Today, housewives are used to buying such baked goods in stores, but often such bread does not have high taste, which is why you can cook it yourself.

We offer several options for making bread at home, if the hostess wants to know how to bake it in the oven, you should follow the step-by-step recipe with a photo.

When kneading the dough, it is important to strictly monitor the proportions of the recipe, as well as accurately follow all the steps described in the recipe. Products play an equally important role, they should be selected especially carefully, only if the ingredients are of high quality, the bread will come out fluffy and soft.

Bread with kefir, without adding yeast

In fact, you can make delicious bread using a minimum number of ingredients, even with such a large number of products, excellent baked goods are obtained.

Ingredients:

• first grade flour - 360 grams;
• coarse salt - 10 grams;
• granulated sugar - 10 grams;
• fat kefir - 290 ml;
• soda - 5 grams.

Cooking process:

• First you need to prepare a deep container for kneading the dough.
• Soda is added to one spoonful of kefir and mixed, thus extinguishing the product so that it does not leave an aftertaste in baking.
• A spoonful of kefir with soda is added to the main volume of kefir, and then granulated sugar and salt are sent there.

The drink is poured into the required amount of flour, after which a rather steep dough is kneaded with your hands. At first, only 300 grams of a bulk product is taken, if this is not enough, flour is gradually added

The finished dough should not stick to your hands, but you should not add too much flour, otherwise the dough will come out too thick and the bread will not rise well

• Now the mass should lie down a little; for this, the dough is covered with plastic wrap and left to lie in this form for an hour.
• Next, the mass is given a round shape in order to bake bread, several cuts are made with a knife on top and sprinkle flour on the bread.

The baked goods are cooked in the oven for about 75-85 minutes, the temperature should be adjusted according to the type of oven. You can check the readiness of the baking with a skewer.

Bread "Fragrant"

This pastry is prepared on the basis of yeast, the product turns out to be quite lush and aromatic, while the bread remains very soft and tasty for a long time.

Ingredients:

• granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• fast-acting yeast - 1 spoon;
• warm water - 2 glasses;
• aromatic herbs - 10 grams;
• salt - 15 grams;
• flour of 1 grade - 4 glasses.

Cooking process:

1. Warm water is poured into a bowl and a pack of yeast is added to it, after which the mixture is left for ten minutes for the yeast to start working. During this time, the liquid will begin to foam and bubble. It is very important to use high-quality and fresh yeast, the quality of the finished baked goods depends on it.
2. Sugar, a little salt and any aromatic herbs are added to the prepared yeast with water.
3. After that, add flour there and knead the dough onto bread.
4. The dough is covered with a towel so that it does not dry out, and left in this form for one hour to infuse. During this period, the mass increases in volume several times. And to make the process go faster, you can warm up the dough a little, to about 35 degrees.
5. Once the dough is right, you can shape it or bake it in a mold.
6. If there is a form at home, then it is greased with vegetable oil and sprinkled with a little flour.
7. The dough may stick to your hands a little, so you should pour oil well over both the mass and your hands, so it won't stick. After that, gently dip the dough into a baking dish and sprinkle with flour on top.
8. The mold is left to stand for a few minutes in a warm place to allow the dough to rise slightly again, and then sent to the oven for baking bread. First, the temperature is indicated at about 200 degrees, and the baking is cooked for fifteen minutes. Then the temperature is lowered to 180 degrees and the bread is baked for another 35 minutes.

We learned how to bake bread at home, if the hostess exactly follows the step-by-step recipe with the photo, then the baking in the oven will come out very fragrant. Herbs give the bread a special taste and smell.

Bread "Village"

This option for baking bread at home is quite simple, baking is cooked in the oven, and if you follow the step-by-step recipe with the photo exactly, you can get a fragrant and very tasty product. The composition contains a minimum amount of products, while there are no ingredients that are difficult to find, they are all absolutely simple and affordable.

Ingredients:

• purified water - 1 glass;
• granulated sugar - 1 spoon;
• flour of 1 grade - 3 glasses;
• coarse salt - 10 grams;
• vegetable oil - 8 tablespoons;
• dry yeast - 1 pack.

Cooking process:

1. The water is slightly warmed up and poured into a bowl, after which yeast, granulated sugar and salt are added to it, vegetable oil is poured last. Gradually add flour to the composition, do it in small portions, so as not to make the mass too steep.
2. The result is a soft and elastic dough, covered with a towel and left in a warm place for forty minutes. During this time, the dough should approximately double.
3. The finished dough is divided into two parts of the same size, as a result, we should get two breads.
4. But it is not at all necessary to divide the dough, you can bake one large product or three small ones. Make a rectangle from each piece using a rolling pin, and then roll this rectangle into a roll.
5. The blanks are transferred to a baking sheet and left in this form for proofing for several minutes, usually 40 minutes in a warm place is enough. On the prepared rolls, make small cuts on top.
6. A container with water is placed in the oven, and blanks for baking bread are placed on a baking sheet.

The baking process first lasts 25 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees, if the bread is not ready, then the temperature drops to 180 degrees and the product is baked until cooked.

Rye bread

This is an excellent step-by-step recipe with a photo, which allows every housewife to understand how to bake bread at home. Bakes should be cooked in the oven, but a bread maker can also be used. For cooking, a minimum amount of products is used, while the finished product is very tasty.

Ingredients:

• rye flour - 3 glasses;
• water - 1 glass;
• salt - a pinch;
• granulated sugar - 1 spoon;
• yeast - 1 pack;
• vegetable oil - 13 cups.

Cooking process:

The water is heated and sugar, salt and a pack of yeast are dissolved with it, you can add half a glass of flour and leave the mixture for twenty minutes so that bubbles appear on the surface

After that, add the required amount of vegetable oil and the remaining flour to the dough. It is worth considering that you may need more flour than indicated in the recipe

When the dough is kneaded, it is left for proofing for an hour, during this period it will double in size

Next, knead the dough and shape it into a circle. Place the workpiece on a baking sheet and leave to stand for 15-20 minutes

Such bread is baked for an hour and a half, the temperature should be adjusted independently, but usually the oven temperature is set at 180 degrees.