There is nothing easier than going to the store and buying any bread to your taste. But how cozy is the house in which it smells of freshly baked bread. Like the smell of childhood, the aroma of fresh bread brings to life warmth, comfort, carefree and calm.
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Bread - the main recipe:
- water - 330 ml
- flour - 4.25 cups
- dry yeast - 3 tsp
- salt - 1 tsp
- sugar - 1 tbsp.
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.
The process of preparing the dough is quite simple and does not take much time. All dry foods should be at room temperature, water should be warm but not hot. Separately mixes water with vegetable oil. This mixture contains a dry mixture of flour, yeast, sugar and salt. Knead soft, sticky dough and leave it in a warm place for 1 - 1.5 hours. Cover the dough bowl with a lid or cling film.
Various bread products are formed from dough. Baking time depends on the size of the product. For example, bread sticks are baked for a total of 15 minutes, a larger loaf of bread can be baked for 30 minutes. The temperature of the oven is 200 - 220 degrees, and in some cases it can rise to 250 degrees.
In a dry mixture for making bread, you can add seeds, dry herbs, spices, and in the process of kneading the dough, you can add slices of vegetables, fruits, for example, onions or olives.
In some cases, the dough time can take up to 12 hours. This is how Roman chirioli, French baguettes, etc. are made. At the same time, the process of baking products is also different, when in the middle of the process a container of water is put in the oven, and the temperature rises. This, combined with peroxidized dough, gives a porous soft airy texture to the finished bread and, at the same time, a crisp.
Oriental bread
It has predominantly the form of cakes of various thicknesses and various dough formulations. Peculiar Georgian mchadi - cornmeal bread, Ingush chapilgi - cakes with cottage cheese, light, hearty, from kefir dough and without yeast, Central Asian churek, sprinkled with fragrant nigella, Israeli Malauah - puff thin cakes, Jewish matzo - crispy cakes, puri - hollow cakes in which it is convenient to wrap any filling and so on.
Here are some of the simplest and most traditional recipes.
Mchadi
For corn dough: - corn flour - 4 cups - water - 2 cups - salt - 1 tsp. For lubrication: - butter (cream 82.5%) - 100 g
Mixed with salt, the flour is combined with water, knead with a spoon. Wet dough with a spoon is spread on a dry hot pan and, frying on both sides, brittle cakes are obtained. Hot cakes are smeared with melted high-quality butter and served like regular bread. And you can serve with delicious Georgian cheeses.
Malauah
Malauach is made from unleavened dough, which is rolled, greased with melted butter, wrapped 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. Traditionally, Malauah is served on Easter week - on Passover.
To make malauah, you need 3.5 cups of wheat flour, 290 ml of water and 50 grams of butter to lubricate the tortillas. From flour and water, a soft dough is kneaded, which must be kept under a bowl or film for 30 minutes. Melt butter and grease raw cakes.
Ready malauah are not lubricated.
Serbian pogach
Yeast dough for Serbian stew is prepared in milk, due to which the bread is snow-white, soft, lush and melting in the mouth. After taking 250 ml of cow's milk, heat it slightly, add a teaspoon of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of dry yeast, mix, cover and leave warm for 10 minutes. Pour 2 tbsp into the foaming mixture. vegetable oil or melted butter, add the highest grade wheat flour (first 3 cups, and then, if necessary, gradually pour another half cup of flour). Knead the dough and keep warm for 30 minutes. After the specified time, take the dough and divide it into 15 equal parts, then roll the cakes. Put the cakes in an overlap in a round shape, greasing each cake with vegetable or melted butter. Cover the mold with foil and leave for 30 minutes in a warm place. Next, remove the film, lubricate 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.