Easy Soft Sandwich Bread
This easy recipe for a single loaf of homemade bread yields a classic and soft inside with a thin, light, golden brown crust. Perfect for slicing and made healthier with a mix of whole wheat flour and bread flour. This recipe is so versatile, it works well with all-purpose flour, bread flour and whole wheat flour.
Ingredients
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- 400 grams of flour (200 grams of bread flour + 200 grams of whole wheat flour)
- 10 grams salt
- 7 grams instant yeast
- 236 grams warm water (95°F)
- 20 grams olive oil
- 16 grams honey
Instructions
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine flours, salt and yeast. Add warm water, honey and olive oil and mix together until shaggy.
- Using the dough hook, increase speed to medium and knead for 5 minutes. You may have to scrape the bowl down the sides during the first minute but the dough will turn smooth, soft and elastic. The dough should pull away cleanly from the sides of the bowl.
- Lightly grease a large bowl with a few drops of olive oil and use your fingers to spread it around the bowl. Create a ball with the dough and roll it around the greased bowl so that the dough has a light coating of oil all around. Cover the bowl and let it rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
- Prepare a loaf pan by lining it with parchment paper. Gently deflate the dough and stretch it a little bit around the bowl and fold it over on itself a few times. Form a rectangle and roll it into a log that can fit easily into the loaf pan. Place the dough into the loaf pan.
- Cover the load pan for the 2nd rise. The dough will rise again, expand to the edges of the pan and will crown the top rim of the pan. This 2nd rise should take about 1 hour.
- With 20 minutes left before the end of the 2nd rise, preheat the oven to 350°F. After the 2nd rise, remove the cover of the loaf pan and score the bread with a sharp knife of lame with a line down the center of the bread.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Cool the bread in a the loaf pan for about 5 minutes. Then lift the parchment paper and remove the bread to continue cooling on a wire rack.
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