Basic White bread in Bread maker machine

'Happiness is homemade'. If you truly believe in this line , then try this homemade white bread and fall in love with home baked soft breads. After trying this homemade bread I have decided to make our own bread always. 

Advantages of making homemade bread are

 1. Less expensive 2. Great hobby 3. Nice aroma in the house 4. Makes your spouse fall in love with you again, LOL, 5. Ingredients are easy to buy 6. Less or no preservatives.

7. We can customize our breads too. 8. makes us look like a genius . LOL.

I have been using a Cuisinart brand (vertical model) bread maker machine since 2020. 

Always save the instruction booklets and recipe booklets for any appliance you buy. That will help in the long run.

Ingredients:

(Medium loaf 1.5 LB size)

Water - 1 cup + 2 Tbsp

Unsalted Butter - 2 Tbsp +1 Tsp

Sugar - 2 Tsp

Salt - 1 1/4 Tsp

All Purpose Flour - 3 Cups

Non fat dry milk - 1/4 cup 

Yeast - 1 Tsp

(Active dry / Instant yeast / bread machine yeast)

My handy recipe for White bread

Bread stored in container

Method:

Warm the water to lukewarm temperature (in cold countries).

Melt the butter.

Add all the items in the order mentioned.

Choose the bread type - here we choose white bread.

Choose the size - for this recipe, we choose 1 1/2 LB

Choose the shade - we are choosing a dark crust.

Press start. We need not do anything from this stage.

It will take 3.5 hrs (almost).

There will be kneading and 3 times of Rising.

In between the machine will ask , if we want to add any ingredients.

If we want we can add any additives like raisin or any other items as per recipe.

After all 3 rises, It will ask us to remove the paddle.

If we are removing the paddle, then take the dough, knead well using hands and shape like bread and place inside the pan. Then press start.

But removing the paddle is OPTIONAL. I won't recommend removing the paddle.

we can remove the paddle after the bread is baked (and cooled).

So I recommend baking uninterrupted.

After the baking is done, remove the bread. 

Cool in wire racks and slice.

Store in air tight containers and enjoy with butter or as sandwich.

Servings suggestions:

Makes 1.5 Lb loaf of bread

சக்கரைப்பொங்கல் Fast and Tasty Chakkara Pongal

Dear friends,

Wishing all a happy and prosperous Pongal ,

Ingredients:

Raw rice - 200 gm

Moong dal - 2 Tbsp

Water - 3 cups

Milk - 1 to 1.5 cups

Jaggery - 250 gm

Cardamom - 7

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Cashew , Raisin - handful

Method:

Rinse the rice and dal together.

Pressure cook them together with 3 cups of water.

In Instant pot , touch the pressure cook button and set to 5 mins.

If cooking in stove top pressure cooker, after one whistle comes , lower the heat and cook for 5 mins.

Switch off.

After the pressure is settled down, open the lid and mash the rice + dal using a spatula.

Add milk 1- 1.5 cups.

Mix well.

Start heating the cooker by setting it to 'saute' mode in Instant pot or 'sim' in stove.

Add jaggery pieces to a vessel, add 1 cup water and let it dissolve,

Add the jaggery solution to rice (discard the residue at bottom).

If the jaggery is pure (without sand), we can directly add it to cooker (see video).

Set presure to 1 min in Instant pot or cook in low flame with lid on for 5 mins. Let the jaggery melt.

Open lid after pressure settles down.

In a separate pan, heat 3 tbsp ghee. Fry the cashew, raisin add to rice.

Powder the cardamom and add this to rice.

Mix well.

Saute for 5 mins and switch off.

Sarkarai pongal in Instant pot is ready !