How to bake bread in your home kitchen? Today, this question is being asked by an increasing number of housewives who strive to amaze their family and friends with natural and delicious food. With the development of culinary technology, it has become easier to do even for those who have never made bread at home. There are many ways and recipes. The most common of them will be considered in this article.
Homebaked bread
Interest in how to bake bread manifests itself again and again when information appears in the media about the discovery of various additives in store bread that may affect our health.
Often this is due to unprofessionalism and unscrupulousness of bakers or the desire of bakery owners to save. All this encourages people to learn how to bake homemade bread themselves. Moreover, it is not difficult to do this. To do this, you can not even purchase a special bread machine, but get along with a conventional oven.
It is worth recognizing that many of those who have mastered the process and can already bake homemade bread themselves completely stop buying store-bought bread. The absence of many preservatives in bread stimulates such culinary experiments. No offal is required for this, and not so much time is spent.
Since you can bake bread at home in several ways, everyone chooses for himself what is closer to him. Obviously, the easiest way is to cook in a bread machine.
Cooking for a bread machine
Having a bread maker at home, the hostess takes a minimal part in baking bread. The main task is to measure the right amount of ingredients and load their device.
There are many recipes with detailed instructions on how to bake bread. For example, for a white loaf you need to pour a glass of warm water into a bowl, stir one and a half teaspoons of dry yeast and a few tablespoons of sugar in it.
At the end, three to four tablespoons of vegetable oil are added. This mixture needs to be removed for ten minutes in a warm place, and then moved to a container for a bread machine. Only there add a teaspoon of salt and wheat flour, which should be previously sieved through a sieve. Flour should be 450 grams.
After that, select the "Main" or "White bread" mode , adjust the desired crust color, if such a function is present, and press the "Start" button. Such bread is cooked for about two and a half hours. As you can see, baking bread in a bread machine is not difficult.
Custard bread
In a bread machine, many prefer to cook custard bread. This requires:
- 350 grams of rye flour;
- 250 grams of wheat flour;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- two tablespoons of honey;
- one and a half teaspoons of salt;
- a teaspoon of caraway seeds;
- two teaspoons of dried yeast;
- 330 ml of water;
- four tablespoons of rye malt.
Malt must first be brewed in 80 ml of boiling water. After everything else, load in the capacity for the bread machine and select the "Rye bread" mode. After pressing the "Start" button, the custard bread will be ready in two and a half hours.
Nowadays, many are interested in how to bake bread at home, to make their life easier, specialized ready-made mixes are now available. But the most interesting thing is to compose the ingredients yourself. So you can experiment, getting the most unusual and unexpected combinations.
For example, many are advised to add melted butter instead of vegetable, so the taste of bread becomes more tender. Water can be replaced with kefir or milk, as well as adding cottage cheese, eggs, dried fruits, granola, sprouted wheat grains, spices, seeds, nuts, spices, bran.
Fermented bread
As an example, we will tell you how to bake bread at home. The recipe will be based on fermented baked milk. To do this, you will need:
- two chicken eggs;
- 200 ml of ryazhenka;
- 20 grams of warm water;
- two tablespoons of sugar;
- salt to taste;
- two tablespoons of sour cream;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 10 grams of pressed yeast;
- half a kilogram of premium wheat flour;
- 100 grams of cream cheese.
- two tablespoons of poppy seeds.
All ingredients must be immersed in a bucket, except for poppy seeds and cheese. It is recommended to bake on the Maxi mode, so that the crust turns dark. Add poppy seeds and cheese during the second batch. On a flat top of bread and pour poppy seeds. It will take about 50 minutes to make such bread. Serving it is recommended with jam and milk.
In a bread machine you can cook and whey bread. Remember that the more acidic your whey is, the denser the loaf will be. For this recipe, take:
- half a tablespoon of dry yeast;
- 450 grams of wheat flour;
- 110 grams of rye flour;
- 200 ml of whey;
- 100 ml of water;
- 20 grams of sugar;
- two teaspoons of salt.
Water and serum must be mixed. Separate flour, sugar and salt. Add serum mixture. All this is sent to the baking dish and cooked in the "Basic" mode. Some units have the Whole Grain mode, which is also suitable for this recipe. This bread is optimal for toast.
Home-made bread
Baking bread in the oven is as simple as making a pie. The only difficulty may be that you need to find a special container for baking. At the same time, it is not necessary that it be a classic rectangular shape, both oval and round will do. Mandatory conditions - high sides and thick walls.
So how, using the oven, bake bread? The recipe (see photo below) is given in this article. For homemade white bread, take:
- 50 ml of milk;
- 200 ml of warm water;
- one and a half tablespoons of sugar;
- one and a half tablespoons of butter (it must first be melted);
- one teaspoon of salt;
- dry yeast packet;
- three and a half cups of wheat flour.
Do not forget to stock up on vegetable oil, which is required to lubricate the mold. First, dilute the yeast in warm water, and then send all the other ingredients. Pour two cups of flour first, and pour the rest as you mix. When the dough begins to lag behind the walls, you need to start kneading it. This is best done on the table with pre-sprinkled flour. It will take about ten minutes.
After that, take a large and deep pan. Put the dough in it and put it in a warm place. Cover with a towel or a tight lid. For an hour, the dough should increase in volume by about two times. You can crush this dough, and then roll it into a thick layer, turning it like a roll. Put it in the prepared form. Cover the mold with a towel and put it back in a warm place for another hour. As a result, the dough should rise even higher.
Before you put the bread in the oven, heat it to a temperature of 200 degrees. Put the baking dish already risen for half an hour, making sure that the bread does not burn. After it is baked, it must be allowed to cool and only then cut.
You are introduced to the basic way to bake homemade bread. There are a large number of recipes. Many of them should please you. As options in the dough, culinary experts add dried fruits, spices and bran.
It turns out well in the oven and rye bread. The dough is prepared for him in almost the same way. It requires 8.5 grams of dry yeast, which should be diluted in warm water, and then add rye flour and salt. Note that per pound of flour should be approximately 300 ml of water.
From this mixture, knead the dough and leave for two hours in a warm place. The risen dough is shaped like a loaf, put in the oven for half an hour at a temperature of 220 degrees.
Malt bread
And this is not the only recipe. You can bake bread in the oven using other components. You can quickly cook original malt bread with cheese and onions. To do this, take:
- four glasses of premium flour;
- one and a half teaspoons of salt;
- one tablespoon of baking powder;
- 75 grams of softened butter;
- a quarter cup of kefir;
- two tablespoons of powdered sugar;
- 3/4 cup finely chopped onion;
- 3/4 cup grated cheese.
From this amount of food you should get two loaves of kefir bread according to a traditional Irish recipe. Cooking it is very fast. For example, in Ireland it is made on cast-iron pans. But you can cook in the oven on a baking sheet, covering it with baking paper.
The oven must be heated to a temperature of 220 degrees, cover the baking sheet with baking paper. In a large and deep bowl, mix salt, baking powder and flour. After that add softened butter, icing sugar and kefir. Now you can knead the dough. Pour grated cheese and onions in pieces. After, divide the dough in half by rolling up two approximately identical balls. Put the formed round loaves on a baking sheet. Flatten them to a thickness of five centimeters, sprinkle with flour on top.
In a preheated oven, bread should be baked for about half an hour, until a characteristic brown-golden crust forms. After cooling it a little, you can cut it warm and serve.
Bread with honey and rosemary
Here is another original recipe that will help you bake bread at home. So, you can cook fragrant bread with honey and rosemary. It is designed for six servings. Interestingly, it is prepared without yeast. How to bake bread in this way without this ingredient will be described below. Take:
- 200 grams of whole grain flour;
- 275 grams of wheat flour;
- one teaspoon of soda;
- a pinch of salt;
- 300 ml of kefir;
- a sprig of fresh rosemary;
- six tablespoons of honey.
Tear off the rosemary leaves from the stem. In a large and deep bowl, mix it with whole grain flour. Sift regular wheat flour, as well as salt and soda into the same bowl. Mix everything well.
Pour kefir into the resulting mixture, add honey and mix everything again until a homogeneous mass is formed. Transfer the dough to a surface sprinkled with flour a little. Knead it should be until it becomes sufficiently elastic. Form it into a ball and make two cuts on top.
Put the dough for your bread on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 40 minutes. One piece of advice will help you understand that the bread is ready. Ready malt bread should make a distinctive dull sound when tapped. Bread should be allowed to infuse for about ten minutes, after which it can be cut and served.
Corn bread
Kefir corn bread in your own oven turns out to be fast, lush and tender. The dough for him should be liquid. Note that instead of cornmeal, which is not so easy to find, you can take the corn grits of the finest grinding you find. To make it work, soak it in kefir an hour before you start cooking.
For 9 servings of delicious corn bread you will need:
- 100 grams of butter;
- two thirds of a glass of sugar;
- two chicken eggs;
- one glass of kefir;
- half a teaspoon of soda;
- one cup of cornmeal;
- one glass of wheat flour;
- half a teaspoon of salt.
In total, it will take you about an hour to make this bread. To start, preheat the oven to a temperature of 190 degrees. Take a square or round shape with a diameter of about twenty centimeters, maybe a little more. It is noteworthy that you can cook corn bread in a cast-iron pan, and in a special form for bread or muffins.
Melt the butter, removing the form from the heat, add sugar to it. After the egg, strictly one at a time, each time thoroughly mixing everything. Soda needs to be extinguished in kefir and pour into the dough. We add corn and wheat flour there, salt to taste. The dough should result in a liquid and not quite uniform. We spread it on our form, greased with oil.
Cook the bread in the oven for about forty minutes.
Homemade bread in a slow cooker
Many do not understand how to bake bread in a slow cooker, and believe that this is impossible, since it does not have enough resources and power. But in reality this is not so. The crock-pot, which has already been appreciated by many modern housewives, is capable of many things, including this.
True, unlike most other methods, this will have to take a direct part. In addition to the need to cook and knead the dough, the bread itself in the baking process will also need to be turned over so that it is well-fried on both sides. After all, do not forget that in the multicooker there is no grill function.
In order to cook white bread in a slow cooker, you will need to take:
- 500 grams of wheat flour;
- 330 ml of water;
- 25 grams of sugar;
- one teaspoon of salt;
- seven grams of dry yeast;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Dissolve salt and sugar in warm water, add yeast there to make dough. It should be taken in a warm place so that the yeast foams, and then pour in the oil. Add the flour in parts, sifting it through a sieve. In this case, the bread will turn out more magnificent. The dough is kneaded for about ten minutes, and then removed in a capacious container for three hours. Remember that during this time it will rise at least twice, so it is important that the dough does not “run away”.
Put the risen dough into the multicooker bowl, which do not forget to grease it first with oil. Bread should not burn and stick to the walls. Wait another hour for the dough to rise completely. Some recommend at this stage to turn on the Multicooker mode “Heating”, but you can do without it if you prudently remove the bowl in a warm place and carefully cover it.
When the dough has finally risen, cook in the "Baking" mode for 50 minutes. Your bread will be baked, but will remain white on top. To avoid this, carefully remove it and, turning it over, remove it back into the bowl. To brown the bread on the other side, bake it for another quarter of an hour in the "Baking" mode.
Get out of the slow cooker and cool.
Rye bread in a slow cooker
Having mastered this method, you can easily cook brown bread in a slow cooker, as you can bake rye bread almost according to the same recipe. It will take exactly the same amount of time.
Instead of wheat, rye flour is taken. Most importantly, do not despair if something does not work out the first time. Try again and again. When you master this science and start experimenting, you will be able to delight your family and friends with natural magnificent and hearty bread prepared by your own hands.