Riga bread: a recipe for a bread machine

In our article we would like to talk about the famous Riga bread. Probably everyone has heard of such a product. It has long become a real brand. Now many bakeries produce such bread. But you yourself understand that if you are not a resident of the Baltic states, you are unlikely to ever have tasted real Riga bread. However, this business is fixable, because you can cook it yourself at home to appreciate the wonderful taste.

Riga bread. GOST recipe

Ingredients:

1. Rye flour - 445 g.
2. Rye sourdough - 15 g.
3. Malt (unfermented light rye, but you can also use wheat) - 35 g.
4. Water - 330 g
5. A teaspoon of caraway seeds.
6. Salt.
7. Wheat flour - 60 g.
8. Molasses (this is dark sugar from cane) - 20 g.

Making sourdough for bread

How to cook Riga bread? The recipe has one small difficulty. The fact is that we do not sell seeded rye flour. And for cooking you need just that. Therefore, you will have to sow it yourself. For this we need a sieve with the smallest cells. You can, for example, take a strainer for coffee grounds. Only now have to sift in small portions.

Your flour will be divided into two parts. This is sifted rye flour and bran. Further cooking is quite simple.

So, let's move on to the preparation of sourdough. For this we need: 15 grams of the starter culture, 45 grams of seeded flour, 30 grams of water. All ingredients must be mixed and left to roam for six hours in a warm place.

Welding

To cook Riga bread (recipe for the oven), we still need to brew. It must be done in advance, it is possible simultaneously with the leaven. For brewing, take: 120 grams of flour (seeded), 35 grams of malt, ground caraway seeds, 230 grams of boiling water. Flour and caraway seeds need to be mixed and poured with boiling water, mix. Next, malt is added and the mixture is left for three hours at 60 degrees. The infusion should turn out like a very thick dough. It is necessary to heat the oven to the desired temperature and put the tea leaves there. While she is there, she will gradually acquire a sweet taste and a more fluid consistency. It should gradually cool to 30 degrees. By that time, the sourdough will arrive in time.

How to cook dough?

To bake real Riga bread (a recipe with photos will help you figure out the production technology), you will also need dough. Ingredients for its preparation: made by us tea leaves and sourdough, 30 grams of seeded flour. Mix all this well and leave to ferment for four hours at a temperature of 30 degrees.

Opara must rise at least twice. At the same time, it will have a fruity aroma and a pleasant sweet and sour taste.

How to knead the dough

When all the preparatory steps have been completed, you can safely proceed to kneading the dough. For this we need:

1. Cooked by us dough.
2. 250 grams of rye flour (seeded).
3. 60 grams of wheat flour.
4. 30 grams of molasses.
5. Salt.
6. Water.

Everything needs to be mixed and brought to a homogeneous consistency. The dough should have the appearance of a dense sticky mass of beige. If you decide to bake bread in a bread machine, then not every one of them will cope with such a tight consistency. And so you have to do everything with your hands, kneading for a long time until smooth.

Flour the work surface. Next, spread the dough and give the shape of a loaf, adding a little rye flour. The dough should not be too sticky, but rather should be soft and supple. Next, the loaf should stand on the proofing, after which it is moistened with water and sent to bake in the oven. Initially, the oven is heated to 250 degrees, the dough is placed there and after five minutes the temperature is reduced to 220 degrees. In this mode, the bread is baked for another twenty minutes. Before you take the finished product out of the oven, you can sprinkle it once more with water. To make the bread shine, you can lubricate it with kissel on the outside, but this is not necessary. So our Riga bread is ready. The recipe step by step (with photos) demonstrates the procedure. We hope that this will help you cope with the preparation.

Riga bread, unlike other rye products, is quite well cut and in a warm form. However, it finally ripens in about a day, then its taste and aroma will be fully revealed.

Riga bread. A simple recipe in a bread maker

Bread can also be prepared with the help of a bread machine, which will greatly simplify the process itself.

Ingredients:

1. Rye flour (seeded) - 430 grams.
2. Two teaspoons of dried yeast.
3. Wheat flour - 75 grams.
4. Honey - 2 tbsp. l
5. Salt.
6. Malt (brewed with 80 ml of boiling water) - 4 tbsp. l
7. Chopped caraway seeds - 1 tbsp. l
8. Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
9. Water - 260 ml.

Cooking method using a bread machine

Riga bread, the recipe of which we offer, is prepared very simply by using such a kitchen assistant as a bread machine.

You can knead in it according to the Pizza program. This takes about fifteen minutes. Once the dough is ready, turn off the bread maker and let it rise. It will take an hour and a half. After this time, you will need to turn on the rye bread program. When the kneading process is over, you need to check how the dough lies. If it sticks to one edge or is uneven, then you can get it with wet hands and give it the desired shape, and then put it back into the container. On the upper part, you can make several cuts with a knife, otherwise the bread may crack in the baking process. After we turn on the bread machine and wait for the product to be ready. We take out the finished bread and put it to cool on a wire rack, on top of it should be covered with a linen towel.

As you can see, it is very simple to prepare Riga bread in a bread maker. The recipe is suitable even for novice housewives who do not yet have experience in baking bread.

A simple recipe for Riga bread

We want to offer another recipe for making Riga bread in the oven.

Ingredients:

1. Rye flour - 130 g.
2. Salt.
3. A tablespoon of honey.
4. Vanilla.
5. Yeast (dried in this recipe) - a teaspoon.
6. Half a tablespoon of oil (vegetable).
7. Water - 185 ml.
8. Wheat flour - 250 g.
9. Half a tablespoon of caraway seeds.

To make Riga bread, stir yeast and sugar in warm water. Leave the mixture for ten minutes, then add sunflower oil and honey. You need to sift both types of flour through a sieve in advance. Add cumin and salt to the dry mixture. Then introduce the liquid ingredients and knead the dough. Then put it in a bowl, pre-oiled, cover with a towel and put in a warm place for proofing. For an hour, you need to knead the dough several times.

From the finished dough to form bread, put on a baking sheet with parchment. It is advisable to make cuts from above. Place the product again for proofing, after which you can bake bread. According to this recipe, Riga bread can also be prepared using a bread machine.

Why is he so good?

Riga bread is a fragrant wheat-rye pastry that has long captivated many people with its taste. Of course, today it can be bought without any problems in the store, but still this is not the bread that is baked in the Baltic states. However, our mistresses have long learned how to bake it at home, not only in the oven, but even in bread machines. Riga bread is good in that it goes well with absolutely all first courses, as well as second courses. Great for sandwiches.

In general, such bread is baked hearth. This means that it is not prepared in uniform, but on a baking sheet in the form of a loaf. Riga bread has a delicate caraway aroma and a pleasant sweetish-sour taste. It has a thin crust and a dense middle.

Of course, it is difficult to cook the real Riga bread, meeting all standards. After all, as we have already noted, it is made on tea leaves. Therefore, the housewives use simpler recipes that are also suitable for bread makers. It will turn out a very good alternative to the famous original.

Connoisseurs say that once you try this bread, you will never forget its unusual taste and aroma.

Another recipe for a bread machine

To prepare Riga bread in a bread machine, the following products will be needed:

1. Rye flour - one and a half cups.
2. Two teaspoons of yeast.
3. Wheat flour - 3 cups.
4. Butter - 3 tbsp. l
5. One and a half glasses of warm water.
6. Dark honey - ¼ cup.
7. A tablespoon of caraway seeds.
8. Salt.
9. A teaspoon of sugar.

Using a bread machine makes cooking easier for housewives. Kneading should be done using the Pizza program. It takes fifteen minutes. After that, the bread maker can be turned off. The dough should stand in a closed state for about two hours. During this time, it will certainly rise. After one and a half to two hours, you need to turn on the program for rye bread. The bread maker will knead the dough. When the program ends, you need to check the status of the batch. And it is better to form the future bread with wet hands.

Before baking, you need to grease it with warm milk and sprinkle with caraway seeds. Next is the cooking process. That, in fact, is all.

A recipe adapted for a bread machine

If you set a goal, then it is quite possible to cook Riga bread yourself . The recipe for a bread machine is somewhat simplified relative to the original recipe according to GOST, but even an inept beginner can cope with baking.

Ingredients:

1. Wheat flour (premium) - 320 grams.
2. Rye flour - 155 grams.
3. Water - 330 ml.
4. Unfermented malt - 20 grams.
5. Yeast (quick dry) - 15 grams.
6. Sugar.
7. Salt.
8. Caraway seeds - 20 grams.

Cooking should begin with steaming malt. Further, all products must be placed in the bread maker according to the instructions. For those who have a program for rye bread, you can use it, but who do not have it, you can cook bread in the usual way for white.

Baking is low, but dense, slightly moist, very aromatic and tasty.

The taste of real Riga bread

Having in your arsenal several recipes for making bread, you can experiment with some ingredients and achieve the desired result. The fact is that, according to the inhabitants of the Baltic states themselves, now in Latvia many bakeries produce Riga bread. Moreover, each baking has its own taste. Of course, there is something in common in products. It is possible that different ingredients are used in the cooking process, which is why tastes also change. It is not possible to fully reproduce bakery technology at home. Riga bread has a bright sweet-sour taste. To achieve such a taste at home, use malt or apple cider vinegar. Some recipes add honey for sweetness. In general, having a basic recipe, you can experiment with additives every time.

Barley flour Riga bread recipe

Riga bread is known for its complex and laborious cooking process. We offer you another version of its preparation, adapted for a bread machine.

Ingredients:

1. Water - 340 grams.
2. Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l
3. Salt.
4. Molasses - 3 tbsp. l
5. A tablespoon of malt.
6. Seeded rye flour - 250 grams.
7. A tablespoon of sourdough.
8. A tablespoon of caraway seeds.
9. Wheat flour (premium) - 180 grams.
10. Barley flour - 90 grams.
11. Yeast - a teaspoon.

All ingredients need to be filled in a bucket of the bread machine. Bread can be baked in Gluten Free mode. The top of the product can be greased with old malt and sprinkled with caraway seeds. The procedure for laying the ingredients in a bread machine must be observed in accordance with the instructions attached to the appliance. It may differ from different manufacturers, and therefore, before preparing, study the annotation for your miracle machine.

Instead of an afterword

As you can see, the simplified recipes we proposed for the bread maker are not so difficult to implement than the original recipe. And therefore, if desired, you can cook bread one of them. Perhaps by experimenting, you will be able to get closer to the desired result and get that very fragrant and delicious rye bread.