Monday, April 6, 2015

Nandini's 100% whole wheat bread with orange juice


3 1/4 cups ww flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tsp instant yeast

Warm the water until lukewarm
Add 2 tbsp sugar
Add the 2 tsp yeast and leave to foam up
(should take less than 10 minutes)
Meanwhile squeeze the oranges for juice - make up to 1/2 cup of juice

Mix the flour, salt, baking soda together
Add the risen yeast to the orange juice and pour both together into the flour mixture
Mix with a wooden spoon until it starts coming together
Add up to a quarter cup of water if the dough starts to feel too dry
If too sticky you can add up to another quarter cup of floor
Either flour or water, add 1 tbsp at a time
Knead for 10 to 12 minutes
Oil the bowl where the dough is to be left to rise
Move the kneaded dough back to the bowl and turn it around to coat it with oil.
Cover and set aside until double and a finger pushed into the dough retains the intendation
At this stage you can leave it in the fridge and take it out for second rise
Leave it outside for half an hour before shaping for the second rise
At the end of the half hour, shape the loaf and put it into the bread pan to rise
When it is just below the rim of the pan preheat the oven
When the dough is just over the rim of the pan, put it in and bake with lower rod only on at 190 degrees
After 15-20 minutes, rotate the pan and leave to bake until golden brown on top and the loaf sounds hollow when you remove it from the pan and tap it.






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