Simple Way to Prepare Favorite Easy Homemade Bread Loaf

Easy Homemade Bread Loaf.

Hello everybody, it's Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, easy homemade bread loaf. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Easy Homemade Bread Loaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It's easy, it's quick, it tastes delicious. Easy Homemade Bread Loaf is something which I've loved my whole life. They're nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy homemade bread loaf using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Homemade Bread Loaf:

1. {Make ready of wholewheat bread flour (+ some extra for dusting).
2. {Get of active dried yeast.
3. {Get of salt.
4. {Get of olive oil.
5. {Take of lukewarm water.

Steps to make Easy Homemade Bread Loaf:

1. Add 500g of flour to a large mixing bowl. You will need an electric mixer with the dough hook attachment in place. If you don’t have one, you can mix it by hand. Add 10g of yeast to the one side of the mixing bowl and 1 tsp of salt to the other. The salt can damage the yeast if they have too much direct contact..
2. Add 1 tbsp of olive oil. Slowly drizzle in about half of the water and mix until the mixture starts to form a rough dough. Continue adding in the water until all of the flour is incorporated and the sides of the bowl are clean..
3. Knead for 7–10 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic. Rub the dough with a little olive oil and place it into a bowl. Cover with a clean tea towel and leave to rise until approximately double in size (about an hour)..
4. Remove your dough from the bowl, lightly flour your work surface and gently press out the air using the heel of your hand. Give your dough a quick second kneading..
5. Form the dough into a rough loaf shape, folding it into thirds. Place the dough into a lightly greased large loaf tin, fold side down, and leave to prove again for a further hour, covered with a tea towel. About halfway through this time, preheat your oven to 200ºC (392ºF)..
6. Gently flour the surface of your loaf and place the loaf tin in the oven. Then to the bottom of your oven add a handful of ice cubes to a shallow oven tray. The ice cubes will release steam and give your dough a good rise and your loaf a nice crispy crust..
7. Bake for 40–45 minutes, or until the loaf makes a hollow knocking sound when tapped on the underside with your knuckles. Let cool for at least 30mins before cutting..

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