Archive for the ‘Bread’ Category
Recipe: Apple-banana-blueberry muffins
Ingredients
- 2 mashed bananas
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
- 2 extra large eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 Tbsp. water
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup white flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
- dash salt
- dash nutmeg
- zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tsp. baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Oil and flour muffin pan (12 standard-sized muffins).
- In a large bowl, stir together banana, eggs, oil, apple sauce, and water.
- Add sifted flours, lemon zest, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. Gently stir in blueberries.
- Stir in baking soda quickly and immediately spoon batter into prepared muffin pan.
- Bake about 20 minutes.
Recipe: Apple-banana-blueberry muffins
Ingredients
- 2 mashed bananas
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
- 2 extra large eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 Tbsp. water
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup white flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
- dash salt
- dash nutmeg
- zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tsp. baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Oil and flour muffin pan (12 standard-sized muffins).
- In a large bowl, stir together banana, eggs, oil, apple sauce, and water.
- Add sifted flours, lemon zest, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. Gently stir in blueberries.
- Stir in baking soda quickly and immediately spoon batter into prepared muffin pan.
- Bake about 20 minutes.
Recipe: Pita Bread
Ingredients
- 1 package of yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup lukewarm water
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of warm water. Let sit for 10-15 minutes until water is frothy.
- Sift flours and salt into large bowl of electric mixer.
- Make a small depression in the middle of flour and pour yeast water in depression.
- Slowly add 1 cup of warm water, and stir on low with electric mixer.
- Place dough on floured surface and knead for 10-15 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Coat large bowl with vegetable oil and place dough in bowl, turning once to coat all sides.
- Allow to sit in a warm place for about 3 hours and until doubled in size.
- Roll out in a rope, and pinch off 10-12 small pieces. Place balls on floured surface. Let sit covered for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 500°F with the rack on bottom shelf. Preheat baking sheet.
- Roll out each ball of dough with a rolling pin into 5-6 circles (1/4 inch thick).
- Bake each circle for 4 minutes until the bread puffs up. Turn over and bake for 2 minutes.
- Gently push down puff after removing from oven.
Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Recipe: Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
- 2 tsp finely grated lemon zest
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 ½ cups blueberries
Streusel
- 6-7 tsp unsalted butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter and flour muffin tray.
- In a large bowl, whisk sieved flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- Cut butter into 1-inch pieces and add the lemon zest. Mix with electric mixer with paddle attachment on medium speed until smooth and lightened in color. Add sugar in a steady stream, then blend in the egg and vanilla.
- Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
- For streusel, whisk flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Add the butter and stir until forms crumbs.
- Portion the batter into pans. Place a layer of blueberries evenly over the batter, then place a dollop of batter on top of the blueberries and add a handful of streusel.
- Bake for 25-30minutes.
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Lemon poppy seed cake
Recipe: Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 egg
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened apple sauce
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1 tsp. poppy seeds
- 1 tbsp. lemon zest
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 tbsp. cornstarch
- 1/6 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup oats
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Butter a 9 x 5 in. loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, poppy seeds, and corn starch
- In another bowl, whisk egg and egg yolks. Add applesauce, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, lemon and orange juice, lemon zest, and sour cream.
- Add the dry ingredients gradually to the wet mixture.
- Pour in baking dish and pour oats over top.
- Bake for 45-60 min. After 15 minutes, slice down the middle to a depth of 1 inch.
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Vollkornbrot (whole grain bread)
Recipe: Vollkornbrot (whole grain bread)
Ingredients
- 2 cups lukewarm water (105-115ºF)
- 1 package (1/4 oz.) dry yeast
- 1 cup cold water
- 1/6 cup whole oat groats
- 1/4 cup whole grain rye berries (berries are same as graots)
- 1 Tbsp. sesame seeds
- 1 Tbsp. flax seeds
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds, unsalted, shelled
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, sifted
- 1 1/2 cups whole grain rye flour, sifted
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1/8 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup white unbleached flour, for kneading
Instructions
- Add whole oat groats and whole grain rye berries to cold water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Adjust heat to have gentle water ripples for 5 min. uncovered. Cover and let stand off of heat for 1 hour. Let the grains cool and sieve.
- Preheat oven to 325ºF. Spread the sesame and flax seeds in a pie tin and toast in the oven for 10-12 min. until sesame seeds are pale tan. Mix in the sunflower seeds and set aside. Turn off oven.
- Combine 2 cups lukewarm water and yeast and let stand for 10 minutes.
- Combine sifted whole wheat and whole grain rye flours, yeast and water mixture, and salt. Beat for 1 min. with heavy-duty electric mixer fitted with the dough hook. This can also be done by hand.
- Add the oats, seeds, and groats. Beat for 1 more min.
- Let rise in oiled bowl covered with a dry cloth in a warm, dry place. Turn the dough once before placing towel over to grease both sides of dough. Let rise for 1 hour.
- Punch dough down and kneed for 5 min. Place in oiled 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan and let rise in warm, dry place for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Bake for 45-50 min with a large baking pan of water on the lower shelf.
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Rosemary Focaccia
Recipe: Rosemary Focaccia
Ingredients
Instructions
- Stir 1 2/3 cups lukewarm water (105 to 115F) and 1 package yeast and let stand until creamy (10 minutes).
- Add 5 cups sifted flour, 1/4 cup olive oil, and 2 1/2 tsp. table salt and beat with dough hook of a standing electric mixer. Knead at high speed for 3-4 min. until soft, smooth, and sticky.
- Turn onto lightly floured surface and knead in 1/2 tbsp. more flour for 1 min.
- Transfer to lightly oiled bowl and turn dough to coat with oil.
- Let rise, covered with plastic wrap, at warm room temperature, until doubled in bulk (2 hours).
- Press dough into generously oiled 15 x 10 x 1 inch baking pan. Let rise, cover with kitchen towel, until doubled in bulk (2 hours).
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Combine rosemary and 3 Tbsp. oil.
- Make shallow indentations all over dough with your fingertips. Then brush with rosemary oil. Sprinkle sea salt evenly over surface.
- Bake for 20-25 min. until golden brown.
Cooking time (duration): 5 hours
Diet type: Vegetarian
Meal type: snack
Culinary tradition: Italian
Based on recipe from Epicurious.com
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