Impress your guests with this amazing recipe for pot bread (did we mention it’s as easy to make as it is delicious?).
Serves: 15 – 20
Baking time: 60 min
Ingredients:
- 8 cups cake flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- 20 g (2 packets) instant yeast
- 500 ml (2 cups) amasi
- 500 ml (2 cups) luke warm water
Method:
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- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- In a bowl mix the dry ingredients flour, yeast, sugar and salt.
- Add the luke warm water to the bowl and mix, ensuring that all the ingredients are well combined to create the bread dough.
- Add the amasi to the dough and continue to knead.
- Place the dough on a floured surface and continue kneading for 20 – 25 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.
- Grease a bowl with oil, place the dough in the bowl and cover with a kitchen towel. Place the bowl with the dough in a warm area and leave to rest for 30 – 40 minutes.
- Once rested and proofed to about double the size, knock down and transfer the dough into a cast iron pot lined with baking paper.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes with the lid on.
- Then remove the lid and bake for another 30 minutes to allow the crust to brown and become crispy.
- Brush with some melted butter when there is 10 minutes of baking left, this will help to give the bread a crispy crust.
- Once baked through remove for the oven and allow to cool before cutting
The recipe is provided by Rediscover Dairy, an initiative of the Consumer Education Project of Milk SA.
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