Easy homemade bread recipe

I went trough 'flat bread' and burnt bread (almost burn my house) and experiment different methods to get fluffy, soft and light bread. I would say it's really important that when making your own bread at home you know how to make yeasts grow double before throw it into the flour, have a lot of patients waiting for dough raise double, and maybe a strong hand if you do not own a bread maker and importantly know how to play with your oven.

I have been using this recipe for the past few months, ever since I stopped buy from the shop.
Here is the recipe, do let me know your feedback if you have tried it. Thanks.


Ingredients:
Item A
Yeast - 11 gms/1 tbsp
Warm water - 1 1/2 cup

Item B
Wheat flour - 3 cups
Flax meal - 3/4 cup
Oat meal - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Butter - 1 tbsp

Item C
Butter to grease the pan

Instructions:
1. Mix Item A and leave for about 30 minutes to double up.
2. Combine Item A and B, beat, punch flour for about 10 minutes and leave for 45 minutes.
3. Punch dough for 5 minutes, at this time you will find dough will be a wet you may want to add additional flour. Transfer dough into baking pan and leave it for another 45 minutes. Bake for 30 minutes at 160C.
4. Perfect dough will be a bit sticky on your hand.

Tomato Mayonnaise Bread recipe

If you follow my posts, you know that I am not a bread person. I wonder everyone else seems to love it :-I. I've been made to understand that bread is good for me than rice in term of sugar contain (FYI I take more rice than bread and I'm not proud of calories I've eaten) Yes noted but I can't still force myself to like it. But I like to eat bread with meats and vegetables on it :-D (made my day LOL). So I got this recipe while browsing on the net. My instinct told me to bake bread! Weird right? So I baked this and add in few ingredients and gosh it taste so good, it came out perfectly. I know it takes time to make the dough but its worth the compliment I got from my best friend!! This is my first bread recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients :
Item A
230 gm high protein/bread flour
120 gm all-purpose flour
2 tbsp milk powder
60 gm sugar
1/2 tsp salt
60 gm butter

Item B 
11 gm yeast + 3 tbsp luke warm water - mix together and stir hard until you can see bubble comes out on the surface. If bubble didn't comes out, make another mix. Remember it is important to wake up "sleeping" yeast. No bubble means you won't get fluffy dough!
80 gm tomato puree
90 gm fresh tomato, take out excess water and blend

Item C
65 gm onion, diced
3 tsp parsley

Item D
Evaporated milk
Mayonnaise
Slice tomato
Slice onion
Spring onions, chopped


Baking Temperature : 180 C
Baking Time : 25-30 minutes


Method :
1.On the high speed of an electric mixer, sift together Item A.  Then add Item B.
2. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes.
3. Add Item C and blend until all ingredients are incorporated.
3. In a big bowl, cover dough and let rise with kitchen towel for 20 minutes.
4. Take dough out and knead with your hand until smooth and elastic and leave for another 15 minutes.
5. Take dough out again and knead with your hand to reduce gas contain in bread and leave for another 10 minutes.
6. Shape dough into your desire form and thickness. Dough need to rise before it's ready to bake. Let it rise again for 40 minutes.
7. Brush the puffy dough generously with evaporated milk, then sprinkle chopped spring onions, put slice tomato and onion on top of it. And lastly garnish buns with mayonnaise.
8. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.