Whole Wheat Indian No-Fry Bread
- dough
- 150 grams/5.3 ounces white whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 150 grams/5.3 ounces whole milk, scalded
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted + 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- equipment
- 1 large baking sheet
- parchment paper
- Mix the flour and yeast and salt together in a bowl or container. Heat the milk in a small saucepan over medium heat or in a glass dish in the microwave until it just begins to boil. Let the milk cool to around 100 degrees or until it's just warm to the touch. Melt two tablespoons of the butter and stir into the milk. Mix the milk and butter mixture into the flour mixture. Stir until the flour is completely moistened. Cover and let rest for 20 minutes.
- After twenty minutes, uncover the dough, wet your hand with water and very gently use a stretch and fold technique on the dough, lifting and stretching the underside of the dough all around, and then turning the dough over so the bottom is now the top. The dough will be very loose on the first stretch and fold but will become more cohesive and elastic as the gluten develops with time and each successive stretch and fold. Repeat this action two more times every twenty minutes, keeping the container the dough is in covered in-between each stretch and fold.
- After the third stretch and fold, lift the dough from the container and place on a floured surface, stretching slightly and evenly into a square shape. Cover and let sit for twenty more minutes.
- Preheat oven to 500 degrees and place a large baking sheet on the middle shelf. After twenty minutes, uncover and divide the dough into four equal pieces. Carefully stretch each piece of dough into a 4-inch x 4-inch square, and place the four pieces of dough on a large piece of parchment paper. Remove the preheated baking sheet and quickly but carefully transfer the parchment paper with the dough onto the baking sheet. Return the baking sheet to the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 5 minutes. The dough will rise and puff slightly. In the meantime, melt the remaining tablespoon of butter. Remove the bread and immediately brush the entire top of each piece of bread with a little of the melted butter. Serve while still hot and drizzle generously with raw honey.
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/17415-whole-wheat-indian-no-fry-bread (may not work)