Ingredients:
Making Bread:
- Bread flour – 1.5 cups
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Milk powder- 1 tsp (optional)
- Whole milk (warm) – ¾ cup
- Sugar – 1 tblsp
- Instant yeast – ½ tsp
Garlic Bread: // for 3 slices//
- Softened unsalted Butter – 1 tblsp
- Extra virgin olive oil – 2 tsp
- Salt – 1/8 tsp
- Garlic – 4 cloves
- Peppercorns – ½ tsp
- Dried Rosemary – ½ tsp
- Dried Oregano – ½ tsp
Procedure:
Making Bread:
- Pre heat the oven to 375 degree F
- Add the warm milk in a small bowl along with ½ tsp of instant yeast and sugar, stir well and keep aside. Let it sit for 5 mins.
- In a stand mixer bowl, add the sieved bread flour, salt and milk powder. Mix well and add the yeast mixture, mix the dough using a spatula roughly and using the stand mixer, knead the dough for about 8-9 mins until the dough becomes soft and pliable.
- Sprinkle some flour on the working surface and form the dough as a mass ball and keep it in a greased large bowl for proofing.
- Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and keep in a warm place to help to raise the dough double in size approx. 45-50 mins for 1st
- After an hour, place the dough over a floured surface and roll the dough evenly about an inch thick (9×12) and roll up the rectangle, starting on the short end, into a very tight cylinder.
- Now place the rolled dough into a 9 inch loaf pan and cover it with a plastic wrap and keep it in a warm place to help to raise the dough double in size approx. 45-50 mins for 2nd
- Place the dough in pre-heated oven and bake it for about 40-45 mins, depends on your oven model. (insert a toothpick comes out clean for final test)
- Remove the bread from the pan, cool completely before slicing.
- Slice the bread with bread knife. Enjoy the bread as it is (or) it is perfect for garlic bread.
Making Garlic Bread:
- In a small bowl, add the softened unsalted butter, salt, olive oil, dried rosemary and dried oregano.
- Take some fresh garlic cloves along with whole black peppercorns in a small mortar-pestle, crush it well and add it into the butter mixture.
- Now take a butter knife full of garlic mixture and spread both the sides of bread slice. Repeat the same process for the rest of the bread slices.
- Place the bread slices gently into the preheated griddle pan; allow it toast for a min on each sides on a very medium flame.
- The super-crunchy, garlicy, buttery “HOMEMADE GARLIC BREAD” is ready.
