Homemade Easy Bread
- 200 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 150 ml Milk
- 15 grams Butter (or margarine)
- 2 tsp Dry yeast
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
- Mix the dough: Put the milk and butter in a bowl, and warm them up for 60 seconds (at 500 to 600w).
- Add the dry yeast and mix in with a whisk.
- Next, add the sugar, then the salt, then add 1/2 of the bread flour.
- When the mixture is no longer floury, add the rest of the bread flour.
- Mix it round and round with cooking chopsticks until the dough comes together.
- 1st rising (proofing): Press a sheet of kitchen parchment paper on the dough so that it adheres to it, and microwave on a low setting (at 150-200w) for 60 seconds.
- When the dough comes out of the microwave, the 1st proofing is done!
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- The basic bread dough is now complete.
- It won't have risen at this point so it won't look any different.
- Shape the dough: Flour the work surface and the top of the dough a little, and divide the dough into 12 pieces.
- Flour your hands too, and pull the dough to roll in the seams and form round balls.
- Pinch the seams closed securely.
- Line up the rolls seam side down on a work surface, cover with a sheet of kitchen parchment paper and put a tightly wrung out moistened kitchen towel on top of that.
- Leave to rest for 10 minutes.
- Press down gently on the dough to deflate.
- Round off the dough again, pulling the seams into the middle.
- Pinch the seams closed securely.
- 2nd rising/proofing: Line a heatproof plate with kitchen parchment paper, and gently place the dough balls around the edge of the plate.
- Cover with a piece of kitchen parchment paper.
- Place 4 disposable chopsticks on the bottom of the microwave, so that the bottom of the dough will be microwaved too.
- Place the plate with the dough on top of the crossed chopsticks, and microwave on a low setting (150 to 200w).
- If you are doing all 12 rolls in one go, microwave for 60 seconds, if doing it in two batches of 6 each, 30 seconds per batch.
- Take the plate out, and transfer the dough, kitchen parchment paper and all, onto a baking sheet.
- Cover with a tightly wrung out moistened kitchen towel and leave at room temperature for 10 to 20 minutes, until the dough increases to 1.5 times its original size.
- Preheat the oven to 200C in the meantime.
- Bake: Take the kitchen towel and the paper on top, put the baking sheet on the upper rack of the oven, and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
- When the sides of the rolls are golden brown, they're done!
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bread, milk, butter, yeast, sugar, salt
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/143830-homemade-easy-bread (may not work)