My very first bread!
Yay!
Alhamdulillah!
I always thought that making any kind of bread is high risk baking and complicated. All I know that bread need time, kneading, and probably a lot of luck! That's why I never try to make any. I skipped the bread recipes when I read or browse. But, it's been so long that I was eyeing on several no-knead bread recipes. I wondered, are they that easy?
Later, we are now finally moving to Auckland. We have been here for almost two months. I have to gather my guts to drive again. So I drive again, so far only to pick and drop my sons to kindy.
I'm still not so confident to drive too far, other than to the kindy. So, it makes me unable to go to grocery stores by myself. I have to wait for weekend so my hubby can drive me to go shopping. But, you know, sometimes some of the food run out before the weekend comes. Stuffs like bread is gone fast, or meet their expiry date before weekends.
I realize now, that my responsibility, not just about the food, raise so high. I have to stop from my daydreaming, slap my face and work on it!
So I finally try this recipe, after browsing for the most eeeeeasiest and shortest time it could get. I found this, from Sweet & Saucy blog. I never explore this blog before, but now I interested to go 'deeper':)
So after making shortbread yesterday, today I made real bread. After I did my Subuh pray, I started by staring the recipe I was about to make. Mix, mix mix, and I let the dough sit for an hour inside the cabinet under the stove to keep it warm.
It is sooooo nice to see it doubled in size. Looked very promising! After that I make 16 rolls, let sit for half hours.
the rolls before raising up againI cover the rolls with towel since I don't have the plastic wrap.
The rolls looked bumping tight shoulder to shoulder. 
After they got into the oven, it looked more stuffed and tight between them.
I love watching those little fat rolls.
The smells of bread in the oven is warming the house. My heart melt. My bread, my very first bread. Not bad at all for my first time bread making.The only bad thing that I have done is I think 25 minutes is a bit too long for my oven. So the 'skin'of the bread is a little harder that I expected. If you want to try this recipe, you might want to start with 15-20 minutes. If you think it is not enough, you can add 5 more minutes and see what happen.
Anyway, enough 'talking'. Here, have a bread!
No-Knead Dinner Rolls
Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of melted butter
1 large egg (lightly beaten)
3/4 teaspoon of salt
3 cups of bread flour (spooned and leveled)
Directions:
- Put warm water in a large bowl and sprinkled it with one tablespoon of active dry yeast and let the mixture stand until it was foamy (about 5 minutes). --> I don't think mine was foaming (I don't call it foaming, just blending).
- Add sugar, melted butter, egg, and salt to the yeast-water mixture, whisking to combine.
- Add flour, stirring with a wooden spoon until everything is incorporated and a sticky dough has formed.
- Using a brush, brush the top of the dough with more melted butter, cover the bowl with clean kitchen towel, and set it aside until the dough has doubled in bulk (about 1 hour).
- After an hour, turn the dough out onto well-floured chopping board.
- With floured hands, roll the dough into a thick log and cut it into 16 equal pieces.
- Smear a 23x23cm pan with melted butter.
- By hands, fold the edges of each piece towards the center, pressing to secure, until a smooth ball formed.
- Put the dough balls in the prepared baking pan (smooth side up), cover the pan loosely with kitchen towel, and let them rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk (about 30 minutes).
- After the rolls has risen adequately, remove towel from the pan and bake them at 205C for 15 minutes first (and add few minutes more if necessary).
- Take them out of the oven.
Makes 16 rolls.
