Baguette
Baguette has hard and crisp crust on the outside and soft texture inside. It is loaded with Vitamin B and Iron. You can eat baguette with soups or make bite size burgers.
Equipment
- 1 Baking tray
- 1 Oven proof bowl
- 1 Measuring cups
- 1 Parchment paper
Ingredients
- 4 cups Bread flour
- 1 Packet Yeast(approx.- 1tbsp)
- 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 tbsp Bread flour
- 2 cups Warm water(out of 2 cups 1 cup for yeast) Temp. of water 110-112 Fahrenheit
- 1 tbsp Canola Oil
- 1 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Take one cup of warm water in a deep bowl, add 2 tablespoons sugar and one packet of yeast and 1 tablespoon of bread four, give a little stir, cover it, and keep the bowl in a warm place for 15 minutes.
- Take a big bowl, add four cups of flour, add salt in it.
- Add yeast mixture to the flour and oil and mix it with circular motion with hands or you can use a stand mixture as well. Add remaining 1cup of warm water and make a dough. Knead the dough for 5 minutes using pull and fold technique until the dough is smooth. Keep the kneaded dough in a warm place for 1 hour for a first proving.
- After an hour the dough should be doubled in size, punch the dough and again use pull and fold technique, after done, keep the dough in a warm place for 30 min for a second proving.
- After a second proving, take the dough out, cut the dough into 150 grams each, flatten the dough, stretch and fold the dough and make give it a long French baguette shape. And keep it in a warm for 30 min. for a third proving.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 400 degree Fahrenheit. Keep one small oven proof bowl or loaf tin half filled with water, and keep that in the oven.
- Once the oven is preheated, put French baguette trays in the middle rack of the oven for 20 mins. After 20 minutes, brush a little water onto the baguette and reduce the oven temperature to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Bake now for 10 minutes until golden brown crust.
