Steakhouse-Style Bread
- 2 cups Bread Flour
- 2-1/4 teaspoons Active Dry Yeast
- 1/2 cups Warm Water (110-115 Degrees F)
- 1-1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 cup Dark Rye Flour
- 2 Tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1/4 cups Vegetable Oil
- 2 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 3/4 cups Strong Black Coffee, Cooled
- In a large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer, combine 1/2 cup bread flour, yeast and water; stir. Let it sit until slightly foamy, about 10 minutes.
- In a separate large bowl, sift or whisk together remaining bread flour, whole wheat flour, rye flour and cocoa powder.
- Add flour mixture into the yeast mixture and mix. Then add oil, sugar and salt and mix. Gradually stir in black coffee until a dough forms.
- Knead dough on a lightly floured surface by hand for 10 minutes until dough is firm, yet smooth and elastic. Or you can knead dough using a stand mixer with dough hook for 5 minutes until dough is firm, yet smooth and elastic. You may need to add a little more water or flour as you knead to achieve the proper consistency.
- Shape dough into a ball and place in a large, lightly greased bowl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Transfer to a warm place and let dough rise until doubled, about 1-2 hours.
- Punch down dough. Shape into a sandwich bread shaped loaf and place in a lightly greased 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Cover with a tea towel and let it rise until doubled, about 1-2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375 F at the end of the rise time. When dough is risen, place it in the oven and bake until deep golden brown and baked through, about 35-40 minutes (to test for done-ness, remove bread from loaf pan and gently thwack the bottom; it will make a hollow sound when it's done).
- Remove bread from oven and let it cool for 10 minutes in the loaf pan. Remove from pan and let it cool completely on a cooling rack before slicing.
- Recipe adapted from Roxana's Home Baking.
bread flour, active dry yeast, water, whole wheat flour, flour, cocoa, ubc, sugar, salt, black coffee
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/steakhouse-style-bread/ (may not work)