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Preparation
1 hour
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Medium
Loaf bread can be served with cold cuts, fruit jam, or butter, providing a nutritious breakfast for your family. The recipe for loaf bread is quite simple with just a few steps, get cooking right away with TasteVN!
Ingredients for Making Loaf Bread with an Air Fryer Serves 4
All-purpose flour No. 13 350 g Sugar 50 g Instant yeast 7 g Salt 1 g Butter 30 g
How to Cook Loaf Bread with an Air Fryer
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Mix the Dough
Add 350g of flour, 1g of salt, 5g of yeast, 50g of sugar, and 80ml of warm milk (40 degrees Celsius) into a bowl. Use a whisk to mix until the ingredients are well combined and sticky.
Tip:
- Do not add salt directly on top of the yeast, as this will kill the yeast or weaken its activity. You can mix the salt with the flour first, then add the yeast.
- If the dough is dry and not sticky, you can add more milk and mix well.
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Knead the bread dough
Use your hands to roughly knead the dough into a ball, then perform the folding and stretching technique.
First, fold the dough over itself, then use the palm of your hand to press and stretch the dough away. Note that you should press and stretch the dough away, not press down. Next, turn the dough ball 90 degrees and repeat the two steps for 10 minutes.
When the dough starts to smooth out, add 30g of butter, then repeat the kneading process for another 10 minutes until the dough forms a uniform, smooth, and elastic ball.
How to tell if the dough is ready:
- The dough is smooth and elastic.
- The dough does not stick to your hands: When pressed, it feels slightly sticky, but when you lift your finger, the dough does not stick to your hands.
- You can stretch the dough into a thin sheet without tearing.
- Check the dough with the Windowpane test. Tear off a piece of dough, stretch it out. If the dough forms a thin membrane that is not easily torn and light can pass through, it is ready.
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Proof the dough
Cover the bowl of dough tightly with plastic wrap, then proof for 45 minutes to 1 hour until the dough doubles in size.
Tip: To check if the dough has proofed properly, press your finger deeply into the dough; if the indentation remains, it has proofed correctly.
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Shaping the bread
Lightly knead the dough, then shape it into a cylinder.
Brush a thin layer of butter into the mold and then add the dough.
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Baking the loaf bread
Preheat the air fryer at 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes, then bake the bread at 160 degrees for 20 minutes.
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Final product
The loaf bread after completion has a beautiful golden-brown crust, while the inside is white and soft. You can slice it and enjoy it with cold cuts or fruit jam!
Tips for Successful Implementation
- For sweet bread, it is recommended to use dry yeast instead to help the bread have a better taste after baking.
- You need to knead correctly so that the dough can quickly form gluten connections, making the baked bread chewy and smooth.
- If the inside of the bread is dry after baking: It could be due to overbaking or using flour with high water absorption. Therefore, during the kneading process, you need to flexibly add water or milk to help the dough remain soft, moist, and tastier.
- If the dough has a smell of alcohol or sourness, it is due to adding too much yeast, the yeast has not fully activated, or the dough has been proofed for too long.
- If the dough is still crumbly and not sticking together after kneading for a long time, it is due to improper kneading technique.
- If you do not have bread flour, you can substitute it with all-purpose flour.
How to Store Bread
Bread can be stored at room temperature for about 2 days. When using, simply spray a little water on the surface of the bread and bake at 150 degrees Celsius for 5-7 minutes.
Wishing you success in making this simple and delicious loaf bread!
*Source of the recipe and images from the Youtube channel Clean Eating Healthy Living
