Is it possible to make bread at home? Of course! And it is also highly recommended since industrial bread is one of the potentially "bad" processed foods due to its content of salt, fats and added additives, as our collaborator, the dietician-nutritionist Carlos Ríos, champion of the movement tells us " real food. "
Is it possible to make bread at home? Of course! And it is also highly recommended since industrial bread is one of the potentially "bad" processed foods due to its content of salt, fats and added additives, as our collaborator, the dietician-nutritionist Carlos Ríos, champion of the movement tells us " real food. "
What do I need to make bread at home?
What do I need to make bread at home?
To prepare homemade bread, you do not have to complicate your life at all or have a machine or a specific appliance. The only essentials are the ingredients (they are all sold in the supermarket) and, to recreate the conditions of a bread oven, you need a pot suitable for baking or a simple roasting bag like those used to bake chicken.
Ingredients for making homemade bread
Ingredients for making homemade bread
To make this bread for about 4-6 people that is made in one hour plus the resting time, you need:
- ½ kg of bread flour
- Wheat flour
- 7 g fresh baker's yeast (or 1 sachet of powdered baker's yeast)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
Mix the ingredients
Mix the ingredients
Mix the sifted bread flour with salt and crumbled or powdered yeast. Add the olive oil and 325 ml of warm or lukewarm water and stir with a wooden spoon until everything is integrated.
Start kneading
Start kneading
Sprinkle the work surface with wheat flour and place the dough on top. Press it down with the base of your hands, push it slightly forward and fold it.
Keep kneading
Keep kneading
Keep kneading in the same way for 10 minutes, adding more wheat flour to the dough if it sticks to your hands or the table, until it is smooth, shiny and elastic.
Cover and let stand
Cover and let stand
Shape into a ball and place it in a bowl dusted with flour. Cover it with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest at room temperature for 1 hour, until it doubles in volume.
Press and let it rest again
Press and let it rest again
Press the dough lightly with your fingers, cover it again and let it rest for an additional hour. Preheat the oven to 240 ° with a floured ovenproof casserole inside.
Bake the bread
Bake the bread
Place the dough in the casserole (if you don't have it, nothing happens, after the gallery we will tell you how to do it in a bag) and make some cuts on the surface of the dough so that you have a perfect bread. Put the lid on and bake for 15 minutes. Remove the lid and cook for an additional 35 to 40 minutes at 200 °.
Take out and let cool
Take out and let cool
Once baked, remove the bread from the pot and let it cool to room temperature on a wire rack or on a clean, dry cloth.
Other alternatives
Other alternatives
As we said, if you don't have a pot for the oven, no problem. You can also make it in a roasting bag, as is done in the so-called miracle bread or bagged bread recipe. Or you can choose to microwave bread. The two recipes, along with the one for wholemeal bread that Carlos Ríos recommended when he warned us that "ultra-processed ones kill us", you have them perfectly detailed behind this photo gallery.
Make your own homemade bread
Make your own homemade bread
Mamen, the director of CLARA, has already done it in her # Reto21DíasClara in which for 21 days she has cooked absolutely everything: even the yogurts … and the bread. If you want to know if the challenge has been successful or not, find out here. As a preview, we can tell you that this is the bread he has made. It looks good … Do you dare? Below you have all the bread recipes so you can choose the one you like the most.
Miracle bread or bagged bread
Bagged bread or miracle bread is the most popular easy bread. Learn how to make bread like this.
Ingredients
- 310 gr of strength flour
- 5.5 g of dry baker's yeast (or 15 g of fresh baker's yeast)
- 20 gr of extra virgin olive oil
- 175 gr of water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 baking bag
Step by Step
- In a bowl, mix the strength flour with the salt.
- Mix the oil and water and heat until warm.
- Add the yeast, stir and let it rest covered for about 5 minutes.
- Pour the liquids into the flour, little by little, stirring until it forms a homogeneous dough that comes off the spoon.
- Sprinkle the work surface with flour and knead for 2-4 minutes.
- Form a ball and brush it with olive oil.
- Make cuts on the surface and sprinkle with flour.
- Also put a little flour in the bag and shake to distribute it.
- Put the bread in the bag, close it and, with the oven cold, bake it at 200º, with heat up and down but without a fan for 35-40 minutes.
- Take the bread out of the bag carefully and let it cool.
How to make bread in the microwave
Yes Yes. Breads can also be prepared without the need for a conventional oven.
Ingredients:
- 150 g of bread flour
- 150 g whole wheat flour
- 180 ml of warm water
- 8 g fresh baker's yeast
- 40g butter
- 2 tablespoons of seeds (optional)
- 1 teaspoon salt
Step by Step
- Mix half the warm water with the fresh yeast and a tablespoon of the strength flour. Stir it, cover it and let it rest for about 15 minutes.
- Mix the rest of the bread flour with the whole wheat flour and salt. Add the previous preparation and the almost melted butter, and mix again.
- Knead for about 10 minutes and, at the end, add the seeds and knead well until they are integrated.
- Form a ball, grease it with a little olive oil, place it in a clean bowl (covered with plastic wrap) and let it rest for about an hour (until it doubles in size).
- Uncover it, press it lightly with your fingers, roll it into a ball again and place it in a microwave-safe rectangular silicone or glass mold (about 25x10 cm more or less).
- Cover again with plastic wrap and leave to ferment until it rises to the edge of the container.
- Cook in the microwave at maximum power for about 5-6 minutes and wait 10 minutes for it to warm up before removing it.
Carlos Ríos's whole wheat bread recipe
If you are looking for whole wheat bread, you can try the spelled bread proposed by our collaborator Carlos Ríos, the standard-bearer of #realfood. And so you avoid refined flours.
Ingredients:
- 500 g of whole spelled flour
- A teaspoon of salt
- Fresh yeast between 10 and 25 g
- 300 g warm water
How to make this bread at home
- You dissolve the yeast well in the hot water. Once ready, add the salt and flour and knead the mixture.
- You leave the mixture in a bowl covering it with a cloth for a couple of hours to ferment.
- After the resting time, you shape it and add seeds or nuts if you wish.
- Put it in the oven at 220º for 20 minutes and then lower it to 170-180º for 25-30 minutes so that it cooks well inside.
Basic homemade bread recipe
It is a bread for 4-6 people and you need approximately 1 hour of preparation plus the resting time.
Ingredients:
- ½ kg of bread flour
- wheat flour
- 7 g fresh yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
Step by Step
- Mix the flour with the salt and yeast. Add the oil and 325 ml of warm water and stir until everything is integrated.
- Sprinkle the work surface with flour and knead until the dough is smooth, shiny and elastic.
- Form a ball, place it, cover it with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest at room temperature for 1 hour.
- Press with your fingers, cover it again and let it rest for 1 more hour.
- Preheat the oven to 240 ° with a floured casserole inside. Place the dough in the pan and make a few cuts on the surface.
- Put the lid on and bake 15 min. Remove the lid and cook for an additional 35 or 40 min at 200 °. Let the bread cool on a rack.
