In recent years, more and more of our housewives refuse to buy bread, preferring home-baked goods. Hand-made loaf is particularly soft and aromatic. In addition, it does not stale for a long time and retains freshness. After reading today's post, you will learn how to bake homemade potato bread.
Option One: Classic
According to this recipe, you can cook lush and airy bread, which has a delicious taste with light notes of baked potatoes. To make you really healthy pastries, you should visit the nearest store in advance and purchase all the required components. Before you start working with the test, check if there is any in your kitchen:
- Two teaspoons of salt.
- Two hundred grams of boiled potatoes.
- Half a tablespoon of dry yeast.
- 350 grams of flour.
- 150 milliliters of potato broth.
- Half a teaspoon of granulated sugar.
To make tasty and fragrant potato bread, a photo of which will be presented below, you need to make small changes to the above list. It is recommended to supplement it with a tablespoon of quality olive oil and a small amount of caraway seeds. The last component will be used to sprinkle the finished loaf. If desired, rosemary, oregano or basil can be added to the dough. These herbs will give the finished baking a unique delicate aroma.
Sequencing
First of all, homogeneous mashed potatoes are made from potatoes pre-boiled in salted water. Dry yeast is dissolved in a separate bowl filled with heated broth. Sugar and salt are poured there. The resulting mixture is combined with mashed potatoes and thoroughly knead with a crush.
Olive oil and pre-sifted flour are sent to the resulting liquid mass. All is thoroughly mixed for several minutes so that a dense, but at the same time quite elastic dough is obtained. It should wrinkle easily and adhere slightly to the palms.
After that, the future potato bread in the oven is laid in a flour-baked baking dish, covered with a clean towel and left for an hour and a half in a warm place. During this time, the dough should increase in volume at least twice.
After this, the form is sent to the oven, preheated to 220 degrees. In this mode, the bread is baked for twenty minutes. After this time, the temperature is reduced to two hundred degrees and cooked for about half an hour. As a result, you get a ruddy and fairly light loaf.
With cereal
To prepare a delicious and healthy potato bread in a bread machine, you should stock up on all the necessary ingredients in advance. Before starting the process, make sure that you have at your fingertips:
- One and a half teaspoons of vegetable oil.
- 250 grams of wheat flour.
- A tablespoon of granulated sugar and dried herbs.
- 250 milliliters of milk.
- Two teaspoons of dried yeast.
- 50 grams of potato flakes.
- Half a teaspoon of salt.
Cooking technology
Vegetable oil and pre-warmed milk are poured into the capacity of the bread machine. Purchased potato flakes and pre-sifted flour are added there. After that, salt and sugar are added on different sides of the container, and yeast is added to the middle. It is important that these bulk ingredients are not in contact with each other.
Then the device is turned on in the main baking mode, the weight of the loaf is set at 0.75 kilograms, and the color is the middle crust. At the end of the first batch, dried greens are added to the dough. After about 3 hours and 20 minutes, the finished, beautifully browned potato bread is removed from the appliance and cooled on a wire rack.
With cottage cheese
This recipe is interesting in that it involves the use of a rather unusual combination of products. Bread prepared in this way has an incredibly rich taste and amazing aroma. As in all other cases, before starting the process, you need to conduct an audit in your own kitchen and go to the store for the missing ingredients. At your fingertips should be found:
- One hundred grams of potatoes.
- Three and a half cups of flour.
- One hundred grams of fresh cottage cheese.
- One raw chicken egg.
- A teaspoon of lemon juice, granulated sugar and sea salt.
- 25 grams of celery.
- One and a half teaspoons of dry yeast.
Purified water, ground nutmeg and olive oil will be used as additional ingredients. As for dry yeast, they can be replaced with eight grams of fresh.
Process description
Pre-washed and peeled potatoes are boiled until tender in slightly salted water. After it becomes soft, the liquid is drained, and the vegetable itself is turned into mashed potatoes. The resulting mass is beaten with a blender along with fresh cottage cheese and chopped celery.
A raw chicken egg is broken into a measuring cup, complete with a bread machine, refilled with purified water and sent to the device’s tank. They add cottage cheese and potato mass, lemon juice, two tablespoons of olive oil, pepper, nutmeg, yeast, salt, sugar and pre-sifted flour.
They close the device and activate the Russian Chef program in 2A mode (for the LG brand). In the process of kneading the dough, it is important to ensure that it does not stick to the walls of the tank. After the signal sounds, announcing the end of the program, the finished potato bread with cottage cheese and celery is removed and cooled on a wire rack.
With cheese
It should be noted that bread prepared according to this recipe is not only tasty, but also aromatic. To please your family with such pastries, pre-purchase everything you need. Your kitchen must have:
- Half a cup of grated cheese.
- 14 grams of dry yeast.
- A cup of mashed potatoes cooked without butter and milk.
- A pair of garlic cloves.
- Five cups of flour.
- Two tablespoons of chopped rosemary.
- Two cups of vegetable stock.
In addition, you will need one tablespoon of table salt and good vegetable oil. As for the vegetable broth, it can be made from purchased cubes.
Action algorithm
In order for you to get lush and fragrant potato bread with cheese, you must clearly maintain the recommended ratio of components. First, a broth, pre-sifted flour and yeast are sent to a large bowl filled with ready-made mashed potatoes. All mix well. To the resulting mass is added crushed rosemary, garlic, passed through a press and three quarters of the total amount of grated cheese. In the dough prepared in this way, a small depression is made and salt and oil are placed there. All is thoroughly kneaded, covered with a clean towel and left in a warm place for an hour and a half. During this time, the dough should increase in size at least twice.
After that, a loaf is formed from it and it is sent to a form previously lubricated with any vegetable oil. Thirty minutes later, future potato bread is sprinkled with the remains of grated cheese and placed in an oven, preheated to 190 degrees. After forty minutes, it is removed, cooled and served. If desired, all cheese can be added immediately to the dough without sprinkling them with a loaf.
Finnish Potato Bread: Recipe
This option is interesting in that it uses two types of flour at the same time. Before you start cooking, make sure that you have all the necessary components. This time in your kitchen should be present:
- 400 milliliters of purified water.
- Two teaspoons of salt.
- Ten grams of margarine.
- A tablespoon of granulated sugar.
- 240 grams of baking wheat flour.
- A pair of teaspoons of dark agram.
- 160 grams of rye peeled flour.
- Teaspoon of panifresh improver.
- Seventy grams of potato flakes.
- One and a half teaspoons of dry yeast.
In order to bake truly tasty, magnificent and surprisingly fragrant Finnish potato bread, it is advisable to observe the above proportions as accurately as possible. In order to facilitate the cooking process, a bread machine is used in this case. First, dry yeast, potato flakes, improver, agram, margarine, sugar and salt are sent to the tank of this device. A pre-screened mixture consisting of two varieties is added there. Lastly, purified drinking water is poured into the bucket of the breadmaker, the appliance is closed, and the “Basic” mode is activated.