Stepwise Basic Bread Dough Recipe

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Stepwise Basic Bread Dough Recipe

Learn to knead a basic bread dough for a white sandwich loaf. This simple step-by-step process will make your basic bread dough recipe easy.

Prep Time20

Cook Time35

Total Time2 5

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Baked

Keyword: Bread dough, dough for white sandwich loaf

Servings: Loaf

Calories: 1276kcal

Ingredients

400 gm All Purpose Flour
5 gm Instant Yeast
1 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Salt
200 ml Luke Warm Water 1/2 cup = 120 ml
2 tsp Butter You can use Oil as well

Instructions

Activating the Yeast

Take a dry bowl, add yeast, sugar and lukewarm water and stir it well.
Cover the mixture and keep it in a dry place for about 15 min or till the yeast gets activated as shown in the pic below.

Making the Dough

Take a fresh bowl of a large size. Add all purpose flour and salt.
Add the activated yeast to the flour and mix it well.

Kneading Process

Initially the dough will be sticky. Time to show your muscles.
Take a little bit of butter/ Oil on your hands and knead the dough for about 7 to 10 minutes using pull and fold method. The dough will still be a little sticky, but will become very soft.

First Rise

Place the dough into a greased pan and cover it with a cling wrap or kitchen towel.
Keep this pan in some warm place until the dough doubles in the volume.

Second Rise

Once the dough doubles in volume take it out on a lightly dusted surface, dusted with flour, Punch it to release the air and knead it for another 5 minutes.
You now need to shape the bread in a desired shape. You can visit my list of recipes to see various shapes of bread you can bake.
Finally shape it in a desired shape, cover it with a clean wrap and keep it for the second rise.

Notes

Don’t add water (suggested amount in recipe) to flour in one go. Knead the dough and keep adding water little by little. Absorption capacity of flour can vary depending upon brand, quality and weather conditions.

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