Baguette
Baguette is a long thin French bread. It is made with basic dough. French baguette is popular all over the world because of its crisp crust and softer crumb. It can be used as starter snack bites with dips, soups and salads, croutons, stew, sandwiches, French onion soup crust and many more ways.
Baguette
Baguette has hard and crisp crust on the outside and soft texture inside. It is loaded with Vitamin B and Iron. You can eat baguette with soups or make bite size burgers.
Equipment
- 1 Baking tray
- 1 Oven proof bowl
- 1 Measuring cups
- 1 Parchment paper
Ingredients
- 4 cups Bread flour
- 1 Packet Yeast(approx.- 1tbsp)
- 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 tbsp Bread flour
- 2 cups Warm water(out of 2 cups 1 cup for yeast) Temp. of water 110-112 Fahrenheit
- 1 tbsp Canola Oil
- 1 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Take one cup of warm water in a deep bowl, add 2 tablespoons sugar and one packet of yeast and 1 tablespoon of bread four, give a little stir, cover it, and keep the bowl in a warm place for 15 minutes.
- Take a big bowl, add four cups of flour, add salt in it.
- Add yeast mixture to the flour and oil and mix it with circular motion with hands or you can use a stand mixture as well. Add remaining 1cup of warm water and make a dough. Knead the dough for 5 minutes using pull and fold technique until the dough is smooth. Keep the kneaded dough in a warm place for 1 hour for a first proving.
- After an hour the dough should be doubled in size, punch the dough and again use pull and fold technique, after done, keep the dough in a warm place for 30 min for a second proving.
- After a second proving, take the dough out, cut the dough into 150 grams each, flatten the dough, stretch and fold the dough and make give it a long French baguette shape. And keep it in a warm for 30 min. for a third proving.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 400 degree Fahrenheit. Keep one small oven proof bowl or loaf tin half filled with water, and keep that in the oven.
- Once the oven is preheated, put French baguette trays in the middle rack of the oven for 20 mins. After 20 minutes, brush a little water onto the baguette and reduce the oven temperature to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Bake now for 10 minutes until golden brown crust.
