Riga bread: a recipe for a bread machine

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

In our article we would like to talk about the famous Riga bread. Probably everyone has heard of this product. It has long been a real brand. Now many bakeries produce such bread. But you yourself understand that if you are not a resident of the B altics, then it is unlikely that you have ever tasted real Riga bread. However, this is fixable, because you can cook it yourself at home to appreciate the wonderful taste.

Riga bread. Recipe according to GOST

Ingredients:

1. Rye flour - 445g
2. Rye sourdough – 15g
3. M alt (unfermented light rye, but wheat can also be used) - 35g
4. Water - 330g
5. A teaspoon of cumin.
6. S alt.
7. Wheat flour - 60g
8. Molasses (this is dark cane sugar) - 20 g.

Preparation of sourdough for bread

How to cook Riga bread? The recipe has one small complication. The fact is that we do not sell seeded rye flour. And for cooking you needjust like that. Therefore, you will have to sow it yourself. To do this, we need a sieve with the smallest cells. You can, for example, take a strainer for coffee grounds. Only now you will have to sift in small portions.

Your flour will be divided into two parts. This is sifted rye flour and bran. Further preparation is quite simple.

So, let's move on to the preparation of the sourdough. To do this, we need: 15 grams of the sourdough itself, 45 grams of seeded flour, 30 grams of water. All ingredients must be mixed and left to ferment for six hours in a warm place.

Infusion

To cook Riga bread (recipe for the oven), we still need tea leaves. It must be done in advance, it can be done at the same time as the sourdough. For brewing, take: 120 grams of flour (seeded), 35 grams of m alt, ground cumin, 230 grams of boiling water. Mix flour and cumin and pour boiling water, mix. Next, m alt is added and the mixture is left for three hours at 60 degrees. The dough should come out like a very thick dough. You need to heat the oven to the desired temperature and put tea leaves there. While it is there, it will gradually acquire a sweet taste and a more liquid consistency. It should gradually cool down to 30 degrees. By then, the leaven will arrive.

How to make sourdough?

To bake real Riga bread (a recipe with photos will help you understand the production technology), you will also need a dough. Ingredients for its preparation: tea leaves and sourdough made by us, 30 grams of white flour. Mix it all welland leave to ferment for four hours at 30 degrees.

The dough should rise at least twice. At the same time, it will have a fruity aroma and a pleasant sweet and sour taste.

How to knead dough properly

When all the preparatory steps have been completed, you can safely proceed to kneading the dough. For this we need:

1. Opara prepared by us.
2. 250 grams of rye flour (sown).
3. 60 grams of wheat flour.
4. 30 grams of molasses.
5. S alt.
6. Water.

Everything needs to be mixed and brought to a homogeneous consistency. The dough should look like a dense sticky beige mass. If you decide to bake bread in a bread machine, then not every one of them will cope with such a tight consistency. Therefore, you have to do everything with your hands, kneading for a long time until smooth.

Sprinkle your work surface with flour. Next, lay out the dough and give the shape of a loaf, adding quite a bit of rye flour. The dough should not be too sticky, but on the contrary, it should become soft and pliable. Next, the loaf should stand for proofing, after which it is moistened with water and sent to bake in the oven. Initially, the oven is heated to 250 degrees, the dough is placed there and after five minutes the temperature is reduced to 220 degrees. In this mode, the bread is baked for another twenty minutes. Before removing the finished product from the oven, you can sprinkle it once more with water. To make the bread shine, you can grease it with jelly on the outside, but this is not necessary. Here our Riga bread is ready. The recipe step by step (with photos) demonstrates the procedure. We hope this helps you with your cooking.

Riga bread, unlike other rye products, cuts quite well even when warm. However, it finally ripens in about a day, then its taste and aroma will be fully revealed.

Riga bread. A simple recipe in a bread maker

Bread can also be made using a bread maker, which will greatly simplify the process.

Ingredients:

1. Rye flour (seeded) - 430 grams.
2. Two teaspoons of dry yeast.
3. Wheat flour - 75 grams.
4. Honey - 2 tbsp. l.
5. S alt.
6. M alt (brewed with 80 ml of boiling water) - 4 tbsp. l.
7. Crushed cumin - 1 tbsp. l.
8. Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
9. Water - 260 ml.

Cooking method when using a bread maker

Riga bread, the recipe of which we offer, is prepared very simply by using such a kitchen helper as a bread machine.

Kneading in it can be done according to the "Pizza" program. This will take approximately fifteen minutes. Once the dough is ready, turn off the bread machine and let it rise. This will take an hour and a half. After this time, you will need to turn on the "Rye Bread" program. When the kneading process is over, you need to check how the dough lies. If it sticks to one edge or is uneven, then you can get it with wet hands and give it the desired shape, and then place it back in the container. On theThe upper part can be cut several times with a knife, otherwise the bread may crack during baking. After we turn on the bread machine and wait for the readiness of the product. We take out the finished bread and put it to cool on a wire rack, cover it with a linen towel on top.

As you can see, it is very easy to make Riga bread in a bread machine. The recipe is suitable even for novice housewives who do not yet have experience in baking bread.

Easy Riga bread recipe

We want to offer another recipe for making Riga bread in the oven.

Ingredients:

1. Rye flour - 130g
2. S alt.
3. A tablespoon of honey.
4. Vanilla.
5. Yeast (this recipe uses dry yeast) - teaspoon.
6. Half tablespoon of oil (vegetable).
7. Water - 185 ml.
8. Wheat flour - 250g
9. Half a tablespoon of cumin.

To make Riga bread, you need to stir yeast and sugar in warm water. Leave the mixture for ten minutes, then add sunflower oil and honey. In advance, you need to sift both types of flour through a sieve. Add cumin and s alt to the dry mixture. Then add liquid ingredients and knead the dough. Next, put it in a bowl, previously oiled, cover everything with a towel and put in a warm place for proofing. Knead the dough several times within an hour.

From the finished dough form bread, put on a baking sheet with parchment. It is advisable to make cuts on top. Put the product again for proofing, after which you canbake bread. Riga bread according to this recipe can also be prepared using a bread machine.

What makes him so good?

Riga bread is a fragrant wheat-rye pastry that has long conquered many people with its taste. Of course, today you can buy it without any problems in the store, but still this is not the kind of bread that is baked in the B altics. However, our housewives have long learned to bake it at home, not only in the oven, but even in bread machines. Riga bread is good because it goes well with absolutely all first courses, as well as second ones. Great for sandwiches too.

In general, such bread is baked on a hearth. This means that it is not cooked in the form, but on a baking sheet in the form of a loaf. Riga bread has a delicate caraway aroma and a pleasant sweetish-sour taste. It has a thin crust and a dense center.

Of course, it is difficult to make the real Riga bread, maintaining all the standards. After all, as we have already noted, it is done at the tea leaves. Therefore, housewives use simpler recipes that are also suitable for bread makers. It will turn out to be a very good alternative to the famous original.

Connoisseurs say that once you try this bread, you will never forget its unusual taste and aroma.

Another bread maker recipe

To make Riga bread in a bread machine, you will need the following products:

1. Rye flour - 1.5 cups.
2. Two teaspoons of yeast.
3. Wheat flour - 3 cups.
4. Butter - 3 tbsp.l.
5. A glass and a half of warm water.
6. Dark honey - ¼ cup.
7. A tablespoon of cumin.
8. S alt.
9. Teaspoon of sugar.

Using a bread maker makes the cooking process easier for housewives. Kneading must be done using the Pizza program. This takes fifteen minutes. After that, the bread maker can be turned off. The dough should stand closed for about two hours. During this time, it will definitely rise. After one and a half to two hours, you need to turn on the program for rye bread. The bread maker will knead the dough. When the program ends, you need to check the status of the batch. And it’s better to form the future bread with wet hands.

Before baking, brush it with warm milk and sprinkle with cumin. Next comes the cooking process. That, in fact, is all.

Bread machine adapted recipe

If you set a goal, then it is quite possible to cook your own Riga bread. The recipe for a bread machine is somewhat simplified relative to the original recipe according to GOST, but even an inept beginner can handle baking.

Ingredients:

1. Wheat flour (highest grade) - 320 grams.
2. Rye flour - 155 grams.
3. Water - 330 ml.
4. Unfermented m alt - 20 grams.
5. Yeast (quick dry) - 15 grams.
6. Sugar.
7. S alt.
8. Cumin - 20 grams.

Preparation should start with steaming the m alt. Next, all products must be placed in the bread machine according to the instructions. For those who have a program for rye bread, you canuse it, and who does not have it, you can cook bread in the usual mode for white.

Baking is not high, but dense, slightly moist, very fragrant and tasty.

The taste of real Riga bread

Having several bread recipes in your arsenal, you can experiment with some ingredients and achieve the desired result. The fact is that, according to the inhabitants of the B altic states themselves, now in Latvia many bakeries produce Riga bread. And each pastry has its own taste. Of course, there is something in common in the products. It is possible that different ingredients are used in the cooking process, which is why the taste qualities also change. It is impossible to completely reproduce the bakery technology at home. Riga bread has a bright sweet-sour taste. To achieve a similar taste at home, use m alt or apple cider vinegar. Some recipes add honey for sweetness. In general, having a basic recipe, you can experiment with additives every time.

Riga bread recipe using barley flour

Riga bread is known for its complex and time-consuming preparation process. We offer you another option for its preparation, adapted for a bread machine.

Ingredients:

1. Water - 340 grams.
2. Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.
3. S alt.
4. Molasses - 3 tbsp. l.
5. Table spoon of m alt.
6. Sifted rye flour - 250 grams.
7. A tablespoon of sourdough.
8. A tablespoon of cumin seeds.
9. Wheat flour (highest grade) - 180 grams.
10. Barley flour - 90 grams.
11. Yeast - teaspoon.

All ingredients must be poured into the bucket of the bread machine. Bread can be baked in the "Gluten Free" mode. The top of the product can be smeared with old m alt and sprinkled with cumin seeds. The order of laying the ingredients in the bread machine must be followed according to the instructions attached to the household appliance. For different manufacturers, it may differ, and therefore, before cooking, study the annotation for your miracle machine.

Instead of afterword

As you can see, our simplified recipes for the bread machine are not so difficult to perform than the original recipe. And therefore, if desired, you can cook bread for one of them. Perhaps, by experimenting, you will be able to get closer to the desired result and get the very fragrant and delicious rye bread.