Sunday, August 14, 2011

Half and Half Bread

From long time I wanted to try a whole wheat bread but suddenly I came across a very interesting book.I tried my hand on half and half bread and the result came out awesome.

This recipe is adopted from "Homebaked" by George and Celilia Scurfield. This recipe will give you two small 2 loaves. The half and half bread is little grainy in texture and tasted very good after toasting it.

Ingredients
  • 350 gms maida (all purpose flour)
  • 250 gms atta (wheat flour)
  • 8 gms dry active yeast
  • 25 gms margarine/butter at room temp
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 350 ml warm water
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Baking Procedure

Stage 1 - Making the dough
Take a large bowl add sugar,salt, butter and yeast and mix nicely.Then add warm water and let it sit for 10 min. After 10 min add the all purpose flour 1 cup at a time and knead for approximately 5 min or until the dough becomes smooth.Keep the dough aside.

Stage 2 - Resting the dough for baking
Coat the bowl with 1 tbsp olive oil,then place this dough in it and roll it. Cover this bowl with a damp cloth or a cling wrap and let it sit for 1 hr.

Stage 3 - Baking
The dough size will double after 1 hr, knead it again nicely and divide it into two parts and shape each portion to a bread loaf and put it is a well oiled 9x5 inch loaf pans and let it sit for another 45 min. It will rise to the edge of the pan.

Preheat the microwave at 210 C in convection mode and bake the loaf for 35 min.

Your bread is ready. Slice and toast and serve with your choice of spread.

20 comments:

Prathima Rao said...

This is a perfectly baked bread!!! Bookmarked :)
Prathima Rao
Prats Corner

Madhu said...

The bread looks so soft and perfectly baked

Daisy Roshan said...

the bread looks very soft....i can smell the bread too...yummy!!

Arti said...

Looks amazingly soft and fluffy!!
Guess what I today had sandwiches, but the bread was from the market! How I would have loved this bread...
Have a wonderful day Satya:-)

Suja Manoj said...

Soft and yummy bread...perfect

Hari Chandana P said...

Woww.. looks super soft and tempting.. simply inviting.. Love it :)
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divya said...

Wow wat a bread..it looks soo perfect and soft...tempting clicks,

Jeyashris Kitchen said...

very soft and delicious bread, nice recipe too

Priya Suresh said...

Bread looks super prefect and fabulous,spongy loaves makes me hungry..

Simplyfood said...

Perfectly made looks awesome.

Kurryleaves said...

perfect!!!that looks so soft ....

Unknown said...

wow, those slices look superb, soft and moist. Yum !!!

Vidhya said...

Bread looks so soft and perfect.Gotta try this some

Shabitha Karthikeyan said...

Perfectly baked bread !! Looks so good/

Anu said...

Bread looks so perfect...Thanks for sharing the recipe..

Az said...

wow.. your bread came out perfect!! I am still trying my hand on baking... no way near it yet

Madhavi said...

WOW perfectly baked bread..looks great!!

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aipi said...

Beautiful loaf, love the light golden color you got ~ nothing beats the taste n aroma of homemade bread :)
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Peggy said...

Your bread looks beautiful!

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