Monday, November 10, 2008

Recipe for Dummies - Bake WITHOUT an oven!!

Recipe for Dummies
How to make peanut butter bread WITHOUT an oven


Ingredients
150g flour
1 teaspoon yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

80g milk
20g grapesee oil
1 yolk

-For peanut butter filling
100g whipping cream
1 spoon peanut butter


How-to
1. Put the flour, salt and sugar into a bowl and mix them well with the yeast
2. Then put the grapeseed oil, yolk and the milk (should be a bit lukewarm) and knead the dough
3. When the dough feels smooth, make the dough like a ball and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Make sure you keep the dough in lukewarm water for about 1 hour for fermentation

4. Unwrap the dough after the fermentation and let the gas out of the dough by pressing it with your palm. Slice the dough into 4 pieces

5. Pull the edges of the dough pieces inside and make them round. Cover the dough with a plastic film so that they don't get dried

6. When the dough swells up a bit, roll the dough flat with a rolling pin into an oval shape

7. Roll the dough from the top and the bottom into the middle and pinch the middle of the dough and seal well

8. Put some water on the dough and roll it over peanut chunks.

Press the dough a bit so that more chunks can stick to the dough.

If you want more peanut chunks on the dough, squeeze the chunks into the dough a bit.
9. Here is the tricky part. Without an oven, this baking part can be a bit annoying. Place a pan over a big pot with water in it so that the bottom of the pan can touch the water. (Basically it's a bain-marie) Heat the water until the bottom of the pan feels a bit hot. Try to keep the temperature. (If it's too hot, take the pan out. If it's too cold, heat the water a bit more) This process is to ferment the dough once again and should last about 40~50 minutes. If the dough doesn't swell up much (ideally the size should be double), you can wait a few more minutes

10. When the dough swells up well, take out the pot and heat the fan directly. Bake the dough over a weak fire for about 13 minutes. The important thing is you have to bake the fermented dough long enough until the bottom is just a little bit burnt.

After 13 minutes, the dough swells up very well, but since this is baking WITHOUT an oven, you have to turn the dough over.

After 13 minutes, the dough swells up very well, but since this is baking WITHOUT an oven, you have to turn the dough over.

Now it's well baked. You can enjoy the bread if you want, but it won't be peanut butter bread.
11. Whip the cream. When it's whipped, add 1 spoon of peanut butter and mix it again. You can add more peanut butter if you like. (I advise you to use a creamy peanut butter.)

12. Cut the baked bread and spread the whipped cream with peanut butter over the sliced side.

13. Looks pretty good, right? Put them in the fridge until the cream hardens a bit. Then, take them out and enjoy!

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