With New Year just around the corner and the party season in full swing, it is many a time a blessing to have easy recipes handy that can add soul to your festive spread. This easy peasy homemade no knead savoury bread is one such recipe. With a little preparation in advance, it is a healthy, preservative free dish that you can serve piping hot or just with some pesto or homemade sauce or even a dip. Since it is savoury with a hint of spices, you can also have it just like that!
Ingredients
- 4 cups Wheat Flour
- 1 tbsp dry yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp warm water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 4 tbsp ghee
- 4 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp butter
- Warm water for dough
- Finely chopped green chilli, deseeded – as per your choice 2 or more
- One sprig curry leaves finely chopped
- A small handful of fresh coriander finely chopped
- 1 tsp cumin
Method
- Activate the yeast by mixing sugar, dry yeast, and warm water (it should not be hot you should be able to dip you finger in it). Cover and wait for 5 minutes. The yeast would have risen which means its ready for use.
- Take a large oven proof vessel. Add whole wheat flour, salt sugar, ghee, coriander, cumin, curry leaves, chillies, and oil and mix. Add the activated yeast and give it a mix. Boil some warm water and add to this dough – you should just mix with a spatula to get a sticky texture.
- Cover with a damp cloth and proof for an hour. It would have become double in size.
- Now beat it down mix and add some oil on top and cover for an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade for 10 minutes.
- The dough would have risen again, now place in the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Leave inside for 5 minutes.
- Take it out – be careful it will be very hot.
- Rub butter on the top, cover for 30 minutes.
- Demould and enjoy.
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