There is nothing easier than going to the store and buying any bread you like. But how cozy is a house that smells of freshly baked bread. Like the smell of childhood, the aroma of fresh bread brings warmth, comfort, carelessness and tranquility to life.
Bread - basic recipe:
- water - 330 ml
- flour - 4, 25 glasses
- dry yeast - 3 tsp
- salt - 1 tsp
- sugar - 1 tablespoon
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
The dough preparation process is quite simple and does not take much time. All dry food should be at room temperature, water should be warm, but not hot. Water is mixed separately with vegetable oil. This mixture is filled with a dry mixture of flour, yeast, sugar and salt. Knead into a soft, sticky dough and leave in a warm place for 1 - 1.5 hours. Cover the bowl with the dough with a lid or cling film.
Various bread products are formed from the dough. The baking time depends on the size of the product. For example, breadsticks are baked for a total of 15 minutes; a larger loaf of bread can be baked for 30 minutes. The oven temperature is 200 - 220 degrees, and in some cases it can rise to 250 degrees.
You can add seeds, dry herbs, spices to the dry bread mixture, and in the process of kneading the dough, you can add pieces of vegetables, fruits, for example, onions or olives.
In some cases, the time for proofing the dough can take up to 12 hours. This is how Roman chirioli, French baguettes, etc. are prepared. At the same time, the process of baking products is also different, when in the middle of the process a container with water is placed in the oven, and the temperature increases. This, in combination with the peroxidized dough, gives the finished bread a porous, soft, airy structure and, at the same time, a crispy crust.
Oriental bread
It is predominantly in the form of cakes of various thicknesses and various dough recipes. Peculiar Georgian mchadi - corn flour bread, Ingush chapilgi - cakes with cottage cheese, light, hearty, made from kefir dough and without yeast, Central Asian churek sprinkled with aromatic nigella, Israeli malauach - puff thin cakes, Jewish matzo - crispy cakes, puri - hollow cakes, into which it is convenient to wrap any filling, and so on.
Here are some of the simplest and closest to traditional recipes.
Mchadi
For corn dough: - corn flour - 4 cups - water - 2 cups - salt - 1 tsp. For lubrication: - butter (butter 82, 5%) - 100 g
The flour mixed with salt is combined with water, kneaded with a spoon. Spread the damp dough with a spoon on a dry hot frying pan and fry on both sides to get fragile cakes. Hot cakes are greased with melted high-quality butter and served like regular bread. Or you can serve it with delicious Georgian cheeses.
Malauach
Malauach is made from unleavened dough, which is rolled out, greased with melted butter, covered with a roll, roll with a snail and then rolled again into a thin, 1 - 2 mm, flat cake, which is fried on both sides in a dry frying pan. Malauach is traditionally served on Easter week - on Passover.
To make malawach, you will need 3.5 cups of wheat flour, 290 ml of water and 50 grams of butter for greasing the cakes. The flour and water are kneaded into a soft dough, which must be kept under a bowl or film for 30 minutes. Melt the butter and grease the raw cakes.
Finished malauachs are not smeared.
Serbian pogaca
Yeast dough for Serbian pogacha is prepared with milk, due to which the bread is snow-white, soft, fluffy and melts in the mouth. Using 250 ml of cow's milk, heat it slightly, add a teaspoon of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of dry yeast, stir, cover and leave warm for 10 minutes. Pour 2 tablespoons into the foamed mixture.vegetable oil or melted butter, add premium wheat flour (first 3 cups, and then, if necessary, gradually add half a glass of flour). Knead the dough and leave warm for 30 minutes. After the specified time, take the dough and divide it into 15 equal parts, then roll out the cakes. Arrange the tortillas with an overlap in a round shape, brushing each tortilla with vegetable or melted butter. Cover the mold with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes. Next, remove the film, grease the surface with a beaten egg or strong tea leaves, if desired, you can sprinkle with caraway seeds or sesame seeds. Bake at 200 degrees for half an hour.
