Quick bread in the oven: recipes and cooking tips

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Do you like to cook homemade cakes? Try to create your own loaf of bread! A piece of fragrant fresh bread will always come in handy for sandwiches for breakfast or an afternoon snack. So, now we will learn how to bake homemade bread in the oven and get acquainted with the most affordable recipes for homemade bread with and without yeast, wheat and rye.

Which raw material to choose?

Of course, only benign. This rule applies not only to the main components, but also to additional ones.

Additional components for the test

As an enrichment of bread with he althy ingredients, take it to your liking:

• chopped vegetables (zucchini, pumpkin, carrots, onions, a variety of fresh chopped greens);
• spices and seasonings (dry herbs, cardamom, turmeric, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, coriander, cloves, allspice, cayenne pepper (optional), mustard);
• seeds (sesame, sunflower, fennel, cumin, dill);
• nuts whole or ground, crumbcan be large or small (boiled almonds, walnuts or pecans, peanuts, Brazilian, hazelnuts or pistachios);
• add sesame, linseed, olive or corn vegetable oil as fat in the dough;
• a little alcohol, just a couple of drops is enough for 1 kg of dough (white table wine, rum, cognac), if you decide to add cognac, be prepared that the crumb of bread will turn a little grayish.

These flavoring and aromatic products are added both to the dough during kneading and when shaping the product. It is also possible to spread seeds or pieces of fruit on the top surface before placing the dough in proofer (roasting the dough in a warm place before baking directly in the oven). Bread at home (in the oven) will be original and individual with any of the above additions.

Homemade bread recipe

So, we are preparing quick bread in the oven. The recipe is quite simple, but it is recommended to strictly follow the recipe so that the yeast in the dough starts to "work" in time and the finished bread comes out fluffy and soft.

Products for the recipe:

• milk - 250 ml, or a mixture of powdered milk and water - 2 tbsp. l. per glass;
• wheat flour (highest grade) - 500 g;
• egg (С1 or С0) - 1 pc.;
• s alt - 1/2 tsp;
• granulated sugar - 1 tsp;
• fast-acting dry yeast - 2 tsp;
• lean oil - 7 tbsp. l.

It should be notedthat instead of milk, it is quite possible to add plain water or cream of any fat content to the recipe.

Quick bread in the oven - recipe:

1. Take a pot with a volume of 2-3 liters. Pour milk and 5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil. Also add sugar and s alt. Place the stove over moderate heat and heat to dissolve the sugar and s alt. But the mixture should not be too hot, let alone boil.
2. Next, remove the pan from the stove and add the egg. Stir and add yeast and a few tablespoons of wheat flour. Stir again and cover the pan with a lid. Let it steep for 30 minutes.
3. Then sift the remaining flour directly onto the table (or into a wide bowl). Make a well in the center and pour the starter from the pot into it. Knead the dough quickly with your hands. Make sure that the lump is homogeneous in consistency.
4. Then place the lump in a clean bowl and cover with a paper towel. Leave in a warm, draft-free place. After half an hour, the dough will begin to rise, you need to knead it a little with your hands, that is, lower it. The next time it rises, do the same.
5. In the meantime, prepare the bread pan - coat all the inside surfaces well with oil.
6. When the dough has risen again, take it out of the bowl and put it into the mold. Lubricate the top with liquid oil. Now you can enter some additional ingredient (see above - "Additional components for the test").
7. Put the proofing dish in a warm place for 15-20 minutes. The quality of the finished dough depends partly on how the dough rises now.bread.
8. Then place the mold in the oven at 200°C for 40 minutes.
9. After baking, gently shake the loaf out of the mold and place on a wire rack to cool naturally for 4-6 hours. Only after that the loaf is recommended to be eaten.

Very important! Yeast bread in the oven will not turn out without proofing before baking!

Yeast - which one to choose and what's the difference?

Take dry or fresh yeast? What is the difference between bread baked with one of these two ingredients? Nothing at all. Bread in the oven with dry yeast is no different from bread made with fresh analogue.

There is only a difference in consistency and appearance between the two types of yeast. Also in the conditions and shelf life. Dry yeast is stored longer, the best conditions for them are sealed packaging. But fresh yeast needs air, but does not store them for long. In some cases, fresh yeast may be frozen, but only for a short time.

Dry and fresh yeast are interchangeable in any recipe - one tablespoon of dry yeast per 25 g of fresh.

Bread without yeast in the oven

Yeast-free bread is a dietary and low-calorie version of home-baked bread. This bread at home in the oven is cooked partly like a rye loaf. But the same recipe can also be used to bake wheat bread - just replace the rye flour with wheat flour.

Products for the recipe:

• kefir (ryazhenka, curdled milk or reverse) - 1Art.;
• baking soda - 1/2 tsp;
• rye flour - 2 tbsp;
• wheat flour (highest grade) - 1 tbsp.;
• Brazil nuts - 6-7 pieces;
• s alt - 1 tsp;
• yellow raisins - 30g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc. or 4 pcs. quail eggs;
• granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. l.;
• lean oil - 1/2 tbsp

Quick bread in the oven - recipe:

1. Start by sift all the flour into one bowl. Rye flour does not have strong sticky qualities, so premium wheat flour is added to it.
2. Rinse the Brazil nuts and dry them in a dry frying pan. Then cool and chop with a knife on a cutting board.
3. Rinse the raisins in warm water.
4. Add an egg, 80 g of vegetable oil to kefir. S alt and sweeten. Whisk well. Add nuts and raisins. Pour in half the flour. Knead so that the structure of the mass is homogeneous. Then add the remaining flour and knead the dough with your hands until it becomes an elastic and soft lump. Try not to knead for a long time so that the dough is not tight.
5. Leave the dough in a bowl or bag for 30 minutes.
6. Turn on the oven to the standard temperature for this type of dough, 180-200 °C.
7. Prepare the bread pan. Brush it with oil and lay the dough. Bake immediately for 40-50 minutes.
8. So, after a while, bread without yeast in the oven is ready. Take it out of the mold and let it cool well.

Black bread recipe

Be sure to write down the recipe and try to cook brown bread in the oven according to ourmethod.

Products for the recipe:

• rye flour - 2 tbsp;
• filtered water - 1 tbsp;
• sourdough for bread - 2 tbsp. l.;
• flower honey - 2 tsp;
• lean oil - 2 tbsp. l.

Quick bread in the oven - recipe:

1. Mix all the ingredients and knead the dough. Leave the homogeneous structure of the bun on the table for several hours. Just cover with cling film.
2. Then, transfer the dough to an oiled mold and sprinkle the top of the bowl with water. Place in a preheated oven at 200°C. Bake 45 minutes.

To make black bread at home in the oven of high quality, you must definitely use sourdough. You can buy it in specialized grocery stores or prepare it yourself.

For rye bread, the sourdough recipe is:

• mix a glass of rye flour with a glass of sour kefir or curdled milk;
• cover a container (not plastic) with several layers of clean gauze and secure with tape or an elastic band;
• leave at room temperature overnight;
• add 50g rye flour;
• stir and leave for a couple more hours to complete the fermentation process;
• Use as directed.

There are many other sourdough recipes for making bread dough. Some of them are based on cereals, others on sour milk. But they have something in common - the finished sourdough must be fermented. To give the dough a slight alcohol flavor - onlysuch a base is considered the best for making koloboks of bread.

How to make cooking faster?

Less baking makes the cooking process faster.

Good quality yeast rises quickly and speeds up cooking. For novice housewives, it is better to try baking bread in the oven with dry yeast - such recipes are the simplest.

Automation of the process. That is, use electric assistant cars. For example:

• grind additional ingredients (seeds, nuts) in a blender or coffee grinder, not by hand;
• mix the dough with special kitchen mixers (they look like a table blender with a bowl);
• use your slow cooker or bread maker to make bread.

What is a bread maker and how does it work?

Bread maker - a desktop bread machine for use in the domestic kitchen. Its advantage is that you do not need to knead the dough, monitor its rise, proofing or baking. The machine will do everything itself. You need to add all the ingredients from the recipe for making bread into the bucket of the bread machine.

Very important rule! First pour some vegetable oil on the mixing tool of the machine.

Further, you should adhere to the recommended requirements of the bread machine of a certain model. Basically, all bread machines work according to this principle - pour in a warm liquid base for the dough, lay in the rest of the ingredients, add yeast at the end. Close the lid of the unit and turn on the main program of work - it usually lasts three hours. For thistime, the machine will mix all the ingredients, knead the dough, wait for it to rise and proof, start baking the dough and make soft bread. The hostess will only have to cool it on the wire rack.

Cooking bread in a slow cooker

Baking bread in a slow cooker is almost no different from recipes using the oven. The dough is prepared from the same ingredients and according to the same principles. But the baking process changes a little:

• put the dough in the multicooker bowl;
• turn on the baking mode for one hour;
• then flip the loaf to the other side;
• turn on the same mode for another 30 minutes.

Fragrant homemade bread is ready. Bon appetit!