Looking for bread recipes, anyone have any?

silhouettes

I have always loved bread.. rolls, biscuits, bread in general. I fell in love with wheat bread when I tried it...

I decided I wanted to try to make my own bread at home... a loaf, biscuits, rolls, anything really.. but when I look online I keep finding "fattening" recipes, so I thought I would ask here.. anyone have any good recipes for any of the above that are healthy and taste yummy?

Thanks!

EDIT: I should put we don't cook homemade stuff to much.. we don't have a bread maker and we aren't good with fancy instuctions (like fudge requires) so hoping for something fairly simple or easy to figure out!

jlrae

Basic Bread Recipe (I make this one quite often)

This is from "Artisan Bread in Five minutes a day" my bread bible for several years now.

It makes four 1lb loaves



3 c lukewarm water

1 1/2 tbsp granulated yeast

1 1/2 tbsp coarse sea salt

6 1/2 c all purpose flour (I do half white/ half whole wheat) measured carefully

cornmeal or oatmeal for the pan



Add yeast and salt to warm water in large bowl. Mix in flour- no kneading. I dump it into the water in my standing mixer (can do it by hand as well) and mix until everything is incorporated.



Cover with a towel and let rise approx 2 hours. I've let it rise 3-4 hours without any change to finished bread.

Then you can either go on with the next step or refrigerate the dough. It keeps up to two weeks in a covered, but not air-tight container. After a few days it picks up a fantastic sour dough-like taste.



When you want to bake: sprinkle dough with flour and cut off a grapefruit sized hunk with a serrated knife. It is VERY sticky dough- dust your hands with flour- stretch the dough and shape into a ball. Let it rest on something easy to slide it off of for 40 minutes- (I use a wooden cutting board) and make sure you sprinkled the surface with cornmeal or something to keep it from sticking.

20 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 450F - with a baking stone or even a cookie sheet. Place broiler tray in bottom. dust loaf with flour and slash the top with knife. Slide loaf into oven, then pour 1 c hot water into broiler pan. Bake 30 minutes until crust is nice and brown.

Cool completely.

eating4balance

Basic Bread Recipe (I make this one quite often)

This is from "Artisan Bread in Five minutes a day" my bread bible for several years now.

It makes four 1lb loaves



3 c lukewarm water

1 1/2 tbsp granulated yeast

1 1/2 tbsp coarse sea salt

6 1/2 c all purpose flour (I do half white/ half whole wheat) measured carefully

cornmeal or oatmeal for the pan



Add yeast and salt to warm water in large bowl. Mix in flour- no kneading. I dump it into the water in my standing mixer (can do it by hand as well) and mix until everything is incorporated.



Cover with a towel and let rise approx 2 hours. I've let it rise 3-4 hours without any change to finished bread.

Then you can either go on with the next step or refrigerate the dough. It keeps up to two weeks in a covered, but not air-tight container. After a few days it picks up a fantastic sour dough-like taste.



When you want to bake: sprinkle dough with flour and cut off a grapefruit sized hunk with a serrated knife. It is VERY sticky dough- dust your hands with flour- stretch the dough and shape into a ball. Let it rest on something easy to slide it off of for 40 minutes- (I use a wooden cutting board) and make sure you sprinkled the surface with cornmeal or something to keep it from sticking.

20 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 450F - with a baking stone or even a cookie sheet. Place broiler tray in bottom. dust loaf with flour and slash the top with knife. Slide loaf into oven, then pour 1 c hot water into broiler pan. Bake 30 minutes until crust is nice and brown.

Cool completely.

Bump. This sounds pretty healthy, but a few questions: What size of pan do you use? and... Is granulated yeast just like regular yeast you buy in the packets?

ennaejay

I have an amazing one -- I sent it to another mfp friend recently --- I'll forward it to you

MarshallLuke

The above mentioned recipe is a great one. I love my "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day" book.
However, here is another great recipe with awesome picture to accompany:
http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html