Monday, August 12, 2013

Anadama Bread ~~Home Baker's Challenge#4

Anadama bread is a traditional yeast bread of New England in the United states made usually with wheat flour,cornmeal,molasses and sometimes with rye flour. This bread was in my to do list since a long and finally i got an opportunity to make some as Manjula Bharath of Desi Fiesta chosed this bread for this month's  Home Baker's Challenge, yep this month was bread baking. Manjula pulled me to make this anadama bread and trust me i was super happy that this bread came out extremely prefect. This bread goes for molasses, since none at home like molasses also molasses is quite expensive here, i skipped its completely and used homemade dates puree to replace the molasses.

Dates puree in this bread makes this bread seriously very much healthier and the sweetness from the dates puree is quite enough to make a mild sweet Anadama bread. The bread recipe Manjula shared goes for all purpose flour completely which i halved with wheat flour and all purpose flour. If you are trying to make with wheat flour, trust me your bread will be very much dense. Better to halve the all purpose flour with wheat flour.Thanks Manjula, we loved this bread and we couldnt stop having them for our breakfast with nutella and fruit jam.

Dates Puree: Take a cup of chopped dates with half a cup of water and cook in low medium flame,(add water if needed), cook in simmer until the dates gets well cooked. Put off the stove and grind as thick paste, your dates puree is ready.Sending to Bake fest hosted by Manjula,event by Vardhini.

Recipe Source : Food Network
2/3cup Yellow cornmeal
3/4cup Thick Dates puree or 1/2cup Molasses
100grms Butter +1tsp Melted butter (for brushing)
2+1/4tsp Active dry yeast
2cups Wheat flour
2cups All purpose flour
1/4cup Non fat milk powder
1tsp Salt

Take the cornmeal, a cup of water, dates puree and butter in a pan.

Heat it in simmer and whisk constantly until the mixture thickens and starts to bubble after few minutes.

Transfer it to the bowl, let it cool until lukewarm and stir occasionally.

Meanwhile sprinkle the yeast over 1/4cup lukewarm water in a bowl and let it sit for 5minutes until its turns foamy.

Add a cup of flour, milk powder to the cornmeal mixture with a wooden spoon.

Cover it with a kitchen towl and keep in warm place, the dough will increase slightly.

Now add the 3cups of flours, half cup at a time, scrap down the bowl after each addition,until the dough comes together into a firm ball.

Transfer the dough to a lightly floures surface and knead by hand until its forms a smooth pliable dough.

Place the dough in a greasd bwl and keep in warm place for 2 hours.

Once the dough doubled the volume, punch down the dough and turn into a clean surface.

Shape into a smooth 4 by 8 inch loaf and transfer it to a loaf pan, cover loosely with oiled plastic wrap and keep it again in a warm place until the loaf rises.

Preheat the oven to 375F, remove the wrap, transfer to the oven..Reduce the temperature to 350F, bake for 35-40minutes and bake until the bread is golden brown,sounds hallow when tapped.

Brush the top with melted butter and let it sit for 10minutes.

Transfer it into a rack and let cool completely before slicing.

27 comments:

Nilu A said... Reply To This Comment

Perfect and yummy bread.. Looks awesome Priya :-)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Perfect and looks inviting!!!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

delicious bread akka super and healthy too

Binys Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

priya love the colour and the texture....love the bread

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Perfectly baked Priya :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Perfectly baked Priya :)

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

Super bread,looks inviting!!

Gujarati Zaika said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious bread... send your recipes to my Ongoing Event:Cooking With Love - Sister Ongoing event- 1st Anniversary winner's choice giveaway

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

its awesome sis.. pakkathala nutella yennai va va nu kupidu :)

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

perfect bread , looks yummy!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

he he sorry sis.. naan adhu nutella nu nenaichein :) parava illai naan ingae nutella oda saapidrein

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Looks super soft and perfect.. love it !!

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

delicious and yummy

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

wow thats an delicious soo soo soft bread looks so yummy :) perfectly baked :) thanks for linking it to event aks :)

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely bread Priya! I made it with all wheat flour and the bread was so dense. In fact it refused to cook inside. I am going to try again with half APF and half wheat!

great-secret-of-life said... Reply To This Comment

super soft and delicious bread.. looks yum

easyfoodsmith said... Reply To This Comment

Your bread looks perfect and so beautiful. Well done dear!

Akila said... Reply To This Comment

perfectly baked cake priya...

fimere said... Reply To This Comment

il est bien tentant, bravo
bonne journée

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious and perfect looking bread. Excellent preparation.
Deepa

PrathibhaSreejith said... Reply To This Comment

Perfectly baked bread, looks awesome :)

Sanoli Ghosh said... Reply To This Comment

Soft and super moist bread Priya akka. Truly very perfect!

today's post:
http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.in/2013/08/illish-macher-matha-diye-kochu-shak.html

Magees kitchenworld said... Reply To This Comment

Perfect texture..looks awesome

Priya Anandakumar said... Reply To This Comment

The bread looks very yummy and lovely texture...

Rasi said... Reply To This Comment

have never heard of this but looks very nice.. another winner priya :)

KrithisKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Unga veetu oven super busy-a..? nice recipe!
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Chitz said... Reply To This Comment

This is a new one to me.. Looks nice & soft !