Recipe: Yummy Basic Bread

Basic Bread.

You can cook Basic Bread using 6 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you Prepare that.

Ingredients of Basic Bread

1. Prepare 450 g of strong white bread flour.
2. It's 7 g of sachet dried yeast.
3. It's 1 tsp of sugar.
4. It's 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
5. It's of extra flour for dusting.
6. Prepare 300 ml of warm water.

Basic Bread guidelines

1. Place the flour, salt, sugar & yeast in a bowl. Gradually stir in the water then bring it all together with your hands to form a dough. On a floured work surface knead the dough for about 8 minutes until smooth & elastic. Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl & leave to rise somewhere warm for about an hour. You want it to double in size..
2. Remove the dough from the bowl & place on a floured surface again. Give it a couple of quick punches then knead again for about 1 minute. This is called “knocking back” & it's necessary to get all the excess air out of the dough before proving. Shape the dough into a round & then place on a baking tray, cover & leave to rise for another 30 minutes. Before cooking make 3 slits in the bread then bake in the oven at 200 Fan/220C/Gas 7 for about 25 minutes..