Bread dough🍞

I have shared several bread recipes on my blog. This is just a basic recipe for bread dough. You can use this dough to make bread, pizza, pav, buns, doughnuts etc.
It can be tweaked according to your taste by adding other flavours like carrot, tomato, spinach, garlic or Italian herbs. The flavour combinations are endless when you experiment with various ingredients.

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp yeast
1-1 1/2 cups warm milk
1 tsp sugar
Salt to taste
Olive oil as required

Method
Add yeast and sugar to the warm milk.
*Make sure that the milk is Not Hot.
Touch the milk to analyze the temperature of milk. If your finger burns, the milk is too hot. Hot milk will kill the yeast.

After adding the yeast, stir and wait for the yeast to be activated. The yeast mixture will be frothy if the yeast is active. If this mixture doesn't become frothy, either the yeast has expired or the temperature of the milk was too hot. In that case, discard and start again.

If the yeast is active and has turned frothy, you can use this to make the dough.

Add the flour and salt to a mixing bowl. Mix the ingredients together and add the yeast mixture.
Make a soft and sticky dough and knead this dough for about 5 minutes.
Smear the dough with some oil and cover the dough with a moist cloth or cling wrap for an hour in a warm place.
After an hour, check to see if the dough has risen and doubled in size. Punch out the air and knead again.
The dough will rise again in 45 minutes to 1 hr.
Knead this dough one more time.
Let it rise again after placing it in the bread pan.
You can do this in 2 ways:
1) After kneading the dough for the 2nd time, shape the dough like a bread loaf and place it in a greased bread pan.
Cover this with a moist cloth and allow to rise.
Once risen, bake in a preheated 200°c oven for 30-40 minutes until the crust is golden brown.

Or
2) Flatten the dough after kneading, smear with some oil and herbs. Wrap it up to form the shape of a loaf of bread and place it in the pan.
Cover this with a moist cloth and allow to rise.

Once risen, bake in a preheated 200°c oven for 30-40 minutes until the crust is golden brown.

Enjoy homemade bread with a smear of butter.