French Bread

Name: French Bread
Total time: 9000 s
Yield: 2 loaves
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1.75 cup warm water; 1 tbsp instant dry yeast; 1 tbsp sugar; 4 cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoon salt; 1 tbsp oil

spicequeen @mrunalthakkar

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French bread is also called baguette which simply means a stick. It is distinguished by its length and crisp crust. French bread is usually made out of all-purpose flour but it can be even made out of wheat flour, rice flour, multigrain flour or sourdough. French bread can be used to make sandwiches, french toast, bruschetta or it can be simply served with butter as a side dish.

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Ingredients

2 hr 30 min

2 loaves

1.75 cupwarm water
1 tbspinstant dry yeast
1 tbspsugar
4 cupsall-purpose flour
2 teaspoonsalt
1 tbspoil

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Steps

2 hr 30 min

1

First of all add instant dry yeast and sugar to warm water and leave it for 5 to 7 minutes.
2

In a big bowl, mix all-purpose flour and salt. Now add yeast mixture to it and make a dough. Add oil and knead it for 8 to 10 minutes until smooth and elastic. Now cover the dough and leave it until double in size. It will take approximately one hour.
3

After one hour, take out the dough on a floured surface and knock the air out. Divide the dough into two equal portions.
4

Take one portion and with the help of dry flour, roll it out in a rectangle. Now start rolling it upwards to form a loaf. Seal the edges and keeping seam side down. Transfer it to a greased baking tray. Repeat the process with the other loaf also.
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Cover and leave it to rest for 30 minutes. Now with a very sharp knife or a razor blade make 3 to 4 cuts on each loaf. Brush both loaves with some water so that it has beautiful crust when it is ready.
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Bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degree for 25 to 30 minutes. When it is ready, take it out and transfer it to a wire rack to cool down.
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French bread can be served as a side dish or it can be used to make sandwiches, bruschetta, french toast etc.

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spicequeen @mrunalthakkar

on October 16, 2020 12:03

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I am Mrunal Thakkar. I can introduce myself as a passionate cook. All the time there is mainly one thing on my mind and that is to cook something that my family likes to eat. I just love food ingredients and I love to feed family and friends.The same love has inspired me to start my cooking channel on YouTube under the name spice queen. I would love to share my recipes with you all. There is no greater joy.Keep cooking! Keep experimenting! Keep spreading love!