Do you like to cook homemade cakes? Try to create a loaf of your bread! A piece of fragrant fresh bread will always be welcome for sandwiches for breakfast or afternoon snack. So, now we will learn how to bake homemade bread in the oven and get acquainted with the most affordable recipes for homemade bread with and without yeast, wheat and rye.
Which raw material to choose?
Of course, only benign. This rule applies not only to the main components, but also to additional ones.
Additional components for the test
As an enrichment of bread with useful ingredients, take to your liking:
- chopped vegetables (zucchini, pumpkin, carrots, onions, a variety of fresh chopped herbs);
- spices and seasonings (dry spicy greens, cardamom, turmeric, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, coriander, cloves, allspice, cayenne pepper (for an amateur), mustard);
- seeds (sesame, sunflower, fennel, caraway seeds, dill);
- whole or ground nuts, the crumbs can be large or small (almonds, peeled with boiling water, walnuts or pecans, peanuts, Brazilian, hazelnuts or pistachios);
- add sesame, linseed, olive or corn vegetable oil to the dough as fat;
- a little alcohol, just a couple of drops for 1 kg of dough is enough (white table wine, rum, cognac), if you decide to add cognac, be prepared that the crumb of bread will turn a little grayish.
These flavoring and aromatic products are added both to the dough during kneading and during molding. It is also possible to apply seeds or pieces of fruit on the upper surface before placing the dough on the proofing (raising the dough in the heat before baking directly in the oven). Bread at home (in the oven) will be original and individual with any of the above additions.
Homemade Bread Recipe
So, cook the quick bread in the oven. The recipe is quite simple, but it is recommended to strictly follow the recipe so that the yeast in the dough starts to "work" in time and the finished bread comes out lush and soft.
Products for the recipe:
- milk - 250 ml, or a mixture of milk powder and water - 2 tbsp. l on a glass;
- wheat flour (premium) - 500 g;
- egg (C1 or C0) - 1 pc.;
- salt - 1/2 tsp;
- granulated sugar - 1 tsp;
- dry fast-acting yeast - 2 tsp;
- vegetable oil - 7 tbsp. l
It should be noted that instead of milk, it is quite possible to add plain water or cream of any fat content to the recipe.
Quick bread in the oven - recipe:
- Take a pot of 2-3 liters. Pour milk and 5 tbsp. l vegetable oil. Also add sugar and salt. Place the stove on moderate heat and heat to dissolve the sugar and salt. But the mixture should not be too hot or even boil.
- Next, remove the pan from the stove and add the egg. Stir and sprinkle yeast and a few tablespoons of wheat flour. Stir again and cover the pan with a lid. Let it brew for 30 minutes.
- Then sift the remaining flour directly onto the table (or in a wide bowl). Make a recess in the center and pour the leaven from the pan there. Knead the dough quickly with your hands. Keep the lump uniform in consistency.
- Then put the lump in a clean bowl and cover with a napkin. Leave in a warm place with no drafts. After half an hour, the dough starts to rise, you need to slightly knead it with your hands, that is, lower it. Next time it rises, do the same.
- In the meantime, prepare a bread pan - well coat all the internal surfaces with oil.
- When the dough rises again, pull it out of the bowl and place it in the mold. Lubricate the top with liquid oil. Now you can introduce some additional ingredient (see above - "Additional components for the test").
- Place the proofer in a warm place for 15-20 minutes. The quality of the finished bread partly depends on how the dough rises now.
- Then place the mold in the oven at 200 ° C for 40 minutes.
- After baking the loaf, gently shake from the mold and place on the wire rack for natural cooling for 4-6 hours. Only after this is a loaf recommended to eat.
Very important! Yeast bread in the oven will not work without proofing before baking!
Yeast - what to choose and what is the difference?
Take dry or fresh yeast? What is the difference between bread baked on one of these two ingredients? Nothing at all. Bread in the oven on dry yeast does not differ from bread on a fresh analog.
There is only a difference in the consistency and appearance of the two types of yeast. Also in terms and conditions of storage. Dry yeast is stored longer, the best conditions for them are hermetic packaging. But fresh yeast needs air, but does not store them for long. In some cases, fresh yeast can be frozen, but only for a short time.
Dry and fresh yeast in any recipe are interchangeable - one tablespoon of dry per 25 g of fresh.
Oven-free bread in the oven
Yeast-free bread is a diet and low-calorie version of home-baked bread. This bread at home in the oven is prepared in part as a rye loaf. But according to the same recipe, you can bake wheat bread - just replace the rye flour with wheat.
Products for the recipe:
- kefir (fermented baked milk, yogurt or sour milk) - 1 tbsp .;
- baking soda - 1/2 tsp;
- rye flour - 2 tbsp .;
- wheat flour (premium) - 1 tbsp .;
- Brazil nuts - 6-7 pcs.;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- yellow raisins - 30 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc. or 4 pcs. quail eggs;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- vegetable oil - 1/2 tbsp.
Quick bread in the oven - recipe:
- To get started, sift all the flour into one bowl. Rye flour does not have strong sticky qualities, so wheat flour of the highest grade is added to it.
- Rinse and dry the Brazil nuts in a dry pan. Then cool and chop with a knife on a cutting board.
- Wash raisins in warm water.
- Add kefir to the egg, 80 g of vegetable oil. Salt and sweeten. Beat well. Add nuts and raisins. Pour half the flour. Knead so that the mass structure is homogeneous. Then add the remaining flour and knead the dough with your hands until it becomes an elastic and soft lump. Try not to knead for a long time so that the dough is not tightened.
- Set the dough in a bowl or bag for 30 minutes.
- Turn on the oven to the standard temperature for this type of dough 180-200 ° .
- Prepare a bread pan. Oil it and lay the dough. Immediately set to bake for 40-50 minutes.
- So, after a while, the bread without yeast in the oven is ready. Remove it from the mold and let it cool well.
Brown bread recipe
Be sure to write down the recipe and try to cook brown bread in the oven according to our method.
Products for the recipe:
- rye flour - 2 tbsp .;
- filtered water - 1 tbsp .;
- sourdough for bread - 2 tbsp. l .;
- flower honey - 2 tsp;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
Quick bread in the oven - recipe:
- Mix all the ingredients and knead the dough. Leave the bun on a table for a few hours. Just cover with cling film.
- Then move the dough into an oily form and sprinkle water on top of the sausage. Place in a heated oven at 200 ° C. Bake for 45 minutes.
To brown bread at home in the oven turned out high-quality, you must definitely use the sourdough. You can buy it at specialized grocery stores or prepare it yourself.
For rye bread, the leaven recipe is as follows:
- mix a glass of rye flour with a glass of sour kefir or yogurt;
- cover the container (not plastic) with clean gauze in several layers and secure with tape or rubber;
- leave at room temperature for a day;
- add 50 g of rye flour;
- mix and leave for a couple more hours to complete the fermentation process;
- use as directed.
There are many other recipes for starter cultures for making bread dough. Some of them are based on cereals, others on sour milk. But they have something in common - the finished sourdough must be fermented. To give the dough a weak alcoholic flavor - only such a base is considered the best for harvesting buns of bread.
How to make cooking faster?
Less baking makes the cooking process faster.
Benign yeast rises quickly and speeds up cooking. For novice housewives, it is better to try baking bread in the oven on dry yeast - such recipes are the simplest.
Process automation. That is, to use electric assistant machines. For instance:
- grind additional components (seeds, nuts) in a blender or coffee grinder, and not manually;
- mix the dough with special kitchen dough mixing machines (they look like a table blender with a bowl);
- Use a slow cooker or a bread machine to bake bread.
What is a bread machine and how does it work?
Bread maker - a desktop machine for baking bread for use in a domestic kitchen. Its advantage - no need to knead the dough, monitor its rise, proofing or baking. The machine will do everything herself. You need to add all the ingredients from the recipe for making bread in a bucket of a bread machine.
Very important rule! First, pour a little vegetable oil on the mixing tool of the machine.
Further it is necessary to adhere to the recommended requirements of a specific model of bread machine. Basically, all bread makers work according to this principle - pour warm liquid base for the dough, lay the rest of the ingredients, add yeast at the end. Close the lid of the unit and turn on the main program of work - it usually lasts three hours. During this time, the machine will mix all the ingredients, knead the dough, wait for it to rise and proof, start baking the dough and prepare soft bread. The hostess will only have to cool him on the grill.
Making bread in a slow cooker
Baking bread in a slow cooker is almost no different from recipes using an oven. The dough is prepared from the same ingredients and according to the same principles. But the baking process changes a bit:
- put the dough in the multicooker bowl;
- turn on the baking mode for one hour;
- then turn the loaf to the other side;
- turn on the same mode for another 30 minutes.
Fragrant homemade bread is ready. Enjoy your meal!