Breakfast Bread

As you all know by now, how much I love baking bread.  Though I am not able to bake as often, whenever I do, it's at least two or three type of breads.  Believe me, home smells divine to me.  With the fragrance of bread spreading all over, I wait like a small kid wanting to lay my hands on the freshly baked bread.  This is one such bread that you can have at breakfast with just butter or with your favourite spread, or team it up with soups and you will love it.  Soft and fluffy and a winner with bread lovers.  You could have it with soups or at dinner time with any gravy or curries of your choice.  So here goes how I made this yummy bread.

INGREDIENTS:

White flour/maida	3/4 cup
Wheat flour/atta	3/4 cup
Wheat vital gluten	1 tsp (heaped)
Oat meal	1 tbsp
Yeast	1 1/4 tsp
Sugar	1/2 tsp
Salt	1 tsp
Luke-warm water	1/2 cup
Olive oil	1 1/2 tbsp

METHOD:

1.       In a bowl add sugar and luke-warm water and mix till the sugar dissolves.  Add the yeast and keep it aside for 5-10 minutes or till it froths up.  (if the yeast doesn’t froth up pl start all over again).

2.       In a measuring cup add the wheat vital gluten and top the white flour over it.  Put it in the bowl of a stand in mixer/food processor if using one.  Else you could knead it by hand too.  Add the wheat flour, oatmeal and salt to it. 

3.       Add the yeast mixture and knead well.  Add a tbsp of oil.  Add warm water little by little (about a tablespoon and a half more water is what I required).  Knead on medium speed for 10 minutes. (If using electric mixer).  Then knead with hand to get a soft and pliable dough, add another 1/2 tbsp of oil while kneading the dough

4.       Once kneaded well, cover the dough and keep it in a well oiled bowl in a warm place for 45 minutes to an hour.  Till it rises well.

5.       Punch down the well risen dough and shape it round and place it on a baking tray to rise again for another half an hour to 45 minutes.  Once risen you could give a cut to the dough into a cross

6.       Pre-heat the oven at 200⁰ C for five minutes.  Bake the bread at 200⁰ C for 20 minutes to a nice golden brown colour, (the bread should sound hollow when tapped).

7.       Enjoy the bread at breakfast, with soups or dinner

NOTES:

1.       Mine took 20 minutes so pl do keep a watch after 20 minutes as sometimes baking time depends from oven to oven.

2.       You could use only white flour or just wheat flour too.  I have used both flours.