Saturday, February 21, 2009

Namaste!

Oh, I just visited India and got back and, sigh. Some time to get back to blog-business.

Potato-baguettes
I've been baking a lot of bread lately! That has made even me eating more bread than usually. Normally I'm not so in to eating bread, even though I love rye bread, but fresh oven-baked bread rolls are beatable. I wanted to switch the outlook and decided to do baguettes instead. The same recipe suits very well if you want to roll instead.
Ingredients:

5 dl of water
1 tbsp of sugar (or syrup)
1 tsp of salt
2 plump garlic cloves
3-4 big potatoes, boiled and smashed
1 tsp of cumin, anis
1 bag of dry yeast
flour
½-1 dl of oil
sesame seeds for garnishing

Mix the sugar, salt, garlic, potatoes and seasoning in 42 c warm water. If you wish, you can add oat flakes, sesame or sunflower seeds etc. Mix the yeast with flour, and start kneading with the water. When you've added most of the flour, add oil. Knead to a firm dough and leave to rise covered.
When the dough has risen to double its size, take chunks of the dough and roll them to baguettes. Heat oven in 225 degrees and let the baguettes rise for a moment covered. Make some cuts to the bread with a knife, and anoint with egg, water or milk. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. Bake for about 14 minutes.


We had some indian style food, with sparkling wine and so on.. Some chapatis with peanut chutney and palak paneer! Yummy.








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