Sophie’s hand made Kefir white organic bread

A big, tasty kefir organic white bread!

A yummy interior!

Recently, I started to make my own bread. This is the first bread I made. It is a lovely white bread with a chewy crust. It smells of kefir. It has organic white flour, 450 ml of kefir, 1 heaped teaspoon of grinded sea salt & dried yeast.

You know that kefir is good for you. So why not use it in the bread?

Recipe: For 1 large bread

Ingredients:

750 gr of organic white flour

450 ml of kefir with only 1,5 % fat

7 gr of dried yeast

1 heaped teaspoon of Maldon sea salt

grinned in your pestle & mortar

Method:

1. Take a large bowl & sieve the flour. Add the dried yeast & mix well into the flour.

2. Now, add the grinned salt & mix it well through the flour & yeast mix.

3. Make a well in the middle of the flour mix & pour the kefir, all of it into it.

4. With your hands, bring the kefir gradually into the flour mix. Mix well & knead until you have a softer dough. If the mix is too wet, add one tablespoon of flour at the time. If the mix is too dry, add 1 tablespoon of water, at the time.

5. Form a long shape. Place it into the large bowl & hang a warmed wrenched kitchen towel over the top. Place in a warm place, away from draught, for about 1 + 1/2 hours until the dough is doubled in size. This will be your 1st rise.

6. After that, flour your hands with the flour & take the dough out of the bowl & place on a Silpat, that you have floured. Push the dough back with your hands & quickly knead it. Make a larger shape of it. Place it onto a silpat bread sheet & flour the top a bit. Place the warmed towel on it. Place it again in a warmed place for the second rise. Let it rise for about 45 minutes till 1 hour until doubled in size.

7. When the 2de rise is nearly over, preheat the oven to 220°C ( 428 F ) if you use a normal oven. I bake with a fan oven so I put the temperature on 195°C. ( 383 F ) for 10 minutes.

8. After the 2nd rise, with a large knife, make large incisions crosswise into your bread. Do not slice all the way through your bread!

9. Place the Silpat baking sheet on an oven rack into the bottom of your oven & bake for about 35 to 40 minutes until your bread has been cooked through & brown on the outside. If you don’t have that, place onto a baking sheet on the wire rack.

10. Take your bread out of the oven with oven gloves & place on a wire rack to cool down completely. The bottom of your bread must sound hollow when tapped with your fingers.

** After the 1st rise:

** After the 2nd rise:

** Just before the bread goes into the preheated oven:

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I am sending this to Bake Your Own Bread, BYOB, round-up October 2009.