I have seen that, baking gives me intense satisfaction. It not only provides me comfort and joy but something to savor at the end of the day. Like any other culinary art , this home this home art becomes perfect with practice and using right ingredients in right proportion.
Today I baked bread with sundried tomatoes which my family relished.
Ingredients
- Whole wheat flour- 1 ½ cups
- Bread flour – 2 ½ cups
- Sundried tomatoes – ½ cup (drained from oil and chopped into pieces)
- Maple syrup – 1 ½ teaspoons
- Active dry yeast- 1 packet (2 teaspoons)
- Ground pepper- 2 teaspoons
- Garlic – 2 pods (crushed)
- Salt – 1 ½ teaspoon
- Olive oil – 3 tablespoons
- Water – 1 ¼ cup
Directions
1. Warm water in microwave for 15 to 20 seconds, add yeast, maple syrup. Mix well and set aside for 5 minutes. it would get foamy.
2. In a large bowl, mix the flours, ground pepper, chopped sun dried tomatoes, and crushed garlic, salt, olive oil and yeast mixture.
3. Flour the counter and knead the dough for 10 minutes, until the dough becomes pliable.
4. Return the dough to a bowl, cover and let rise for 1.5 hours. ( by this time, the dough would have doubled in quantity)
5. Grease a loaf pan, punch down the dough, knead a bit and shape it into a loaf. Cover with a towel and let prove for 1 hour in a warm place.( it would have almost doubled in size).
6. pre heat the oven to 375° F with a rack in the middle.
7. Bake for 30 -35 minutes until the loaf is golden .Insert a skewer in the middle to see if it comes out clean.
8. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
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