Three Ways To Make Bread Dough
By hand
- Weigh the flour into the bowl
- Put the yeast on one side. Put salt, sugar separately on the opposite side. Add oil (if used in recipe) in the centre
- Add the liquid all at once, mixing all together with one hand whilst turning the bowl around with the other. Combine the flour thoroughly and once you have a ball of dough, transfer the dough to the work surface and continue kneading for about 10 minutes.
- More details on the specifics of the kneading process in video very soon
Stand Mixer
- Fit the dough hook
- Weigh the flour into the bowl
- Put the yeast on one side. Put salt, sugar seperately on the opposite side. Add oil in the centre
- Add the liquid all at once.
- Switch on the mixer on a slow speed
- After 1 minute, turn up to a medium speed.
Bread Machine
You can make the dough in a bread machine without baking it. Shaping by hand and transfer to the oven.
- Put the kneading arm in place in the bread pan.
- Always use warm water. It should be lukewarm not hot.
- Add the other wet ingredients such as oil, lemon, milk, yoghut etc
- Using a serving spoon, sprinkle the flour over the water in the bread pan. Start gently and you will see the flour sitting on top of the water. As you continue you will see that you have a definite layer of flour sitting on top the water.
- Using the spoon make a slight dip in the flour in the centre and a small dip in the flour at 2 opposite corners.
- Put the yeast in the centre, put the salt in one corner and the sugar in the opposite corner
- Use the Dough setting
