Easy Homemade Bread

Homemade bread remains one of the most beloved traditional recipes. It is simple, natural, and made with just a few ingredients. This recipe gives you bread that is fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside, perfect for any day of the week. You can bake it even if you are a beginner in the kitchen.

A house where bread is baked is filled with a warm atmosphere and a special aroma. Here is a recipe for bread with a light crumb and a crispy crust, made at home.

This recipe is ideal for those who want to bake homemade bread but are still undecided because many recipes are very complicated, which is not the case with this recipe, as it contains the simplest ingredients that you always have in your kitchen and is easy to prepare.

Recommendations:

• To get the best results, use high-quality wheat flour. I used premium white wheat flour.
• To speed up the rising process, you can heat the oven to 40 degrees Celsius and place the dough in the oven to rise faster, but be careful not to put it in a plastic bowl.
• I do not recommend baking the bread longer than the specified time, as it may dry out and will no longer be as soft and fluffy.
• Do not cut the bread while it is still hot; let it cool on a rack, then cut and consume. Hot bread should not be eaten for health reasons – such bread will be very difficult to digest and will not provide any benefits, unlike cooled bread.
• Do not cut the bread while it is still hot; let it cool on a rack, then cut and consume. Hot bread should not be eaten for health reasons—such bread will be very difficult to digest and will not provide any benefits, unlike cooled bread.

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  Pour warm water into a bowl and add salt.
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  Add the dry yeast.
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  Add the sunflower oil.
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  Gradually add the flour.
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  Knead the dough for 5 minutes.
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  Form a ball from the dough and transfer it to a clean, dry bowl sprinkled with a little flour. Cover the bowl with a towel and leave it to rise in a warm place for an hour.
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  The dough has risen in volume.
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  Transfer the dough to a table sprinkled with a little flour and knead it a little more. Shape the bread as desired. I chose to make it toast-shaped, but if you want, you can divide and braid it, or you can make it round.
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  Place the bread on a loaf pan lined with parchment paper and cover with a towel. Let rise for another 20 minutes.
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  The bread has increased in volume.
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  Whisk an egg and use a pastry brush to grease the bread.
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  An important step in baking bread is scoring it with a knife, which helps the bread to open up nicely during baking without cracking from excess gas. This will give us a well-aerated and risen crumb.
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  Preheat the oven. Place the bread in the oven for 20 minutes at 210°C, then reduce the temperature to 180°C and bake for another 20 minutes. Your delicious, golden-brown bread is ready.
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  Allow to cool, then cut.