Bacon and Goat Cheese Bread Roll

What is the most hot topic around? Recently, people keep talking about how much they ate during X’Mas when I went to work out in the gym or went swimming in the pool. Yes, I believe everyone enjoyed lots of feasts with your families and friends. So do I. It is very important to have exercise after those delicious food. What are you going to do today after work off? Pick up your walking shoes and just walk to the park. Be healthy and enjoy more delicious food.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 20~30 minutes
Recipe: Serve 3~5 people

 

Steps of Bacon and Goat Cheese Bread Roll

(1) Add flour, and salt in the bowl. Mix all ingredients well

(2) Add egg, milk with instant yeast and butter into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I reserve 1 table spoon of egg for brushing on the surface of bread.)

 

(3) Move the dough into the floured table. Knead the dough until it turns softer and more elastic.
(4) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

 

(5) At this moment, prepare a pan. Fry bacon and set aside for later use.

(6) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Roll it into around 35X25cm rectangle.

 

(7) Place bacon on the top of bread. Then, add chopped goat cheese and basil leaves on the top of bacon.

 

(8) Roll it up. Slice in the middle of the bread. But, leave one end. Roll it again to shape the bread into a bow.

 

(9) Leave in the warm place to grow up again. It takes around 40~60 minutes. Brush some egg over the top. Then, send it to the pre-heated oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 for 20~30 minutes until it turns golden on the top.

 

 

It is a very tasty bread roll which can be eaten as the breakfast, light lunch, or your tea time. Try it and let me know your feeling.

Lemon Oat Bread

Guess which X’Mas movie I saw? Not Miracle on 34^th road! Not It's a Wonderful Life. I watched THE HOLIDAY!!

OH My God, it feels like so good to watch again. It gives me more than watching romance movie this time. Of course, the love story in the movie is good. I also like how Iris would like to help Arthur. How Iris cares about Arthur. Maybe, I came to UK alone. Then, I met some friends who would like to care about even though we don’t know each other. The caring they offer is hard to describe by words. The only thing I can say it Thank You to all my friends who have help me in the UK.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 12~15 minutes
Recipe: 8 Lemon Oat Bread

 

Steps of Lemon Oat Bread

(1) Add lemon grazed, flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl. Mix all ingredients well

(2) Add lemon juice, milk with instant yeast and butter into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk

 

(3) Move the dough into the floured table. Knead the dough until it turns softer and more elastic.

(4) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

 

(5) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Knead 80g of oat into the bread

 

 

(6) Separate it to 8 small balls equally. Shape 8 dough into 8 balls, and put on the greased plated. Set aside at a warm place and wait for the dough double the size again. It takes around 40 ~ 60 minutes.

 

(7) After the double the size, glaze some egg over the top and put some oat over the top. Send them into the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. It takes around 15 minutes until it turns golden on the top.

 

 

It is a very lemon bread. You can smell lemon flavor and enjoy lemon at every single bite. So, don’t hesitate and just do it. Enjoy

 

Sesame Bread

At the end of a year, we are all asked to think about what we did right for this year? What did we do still have room to improve? I start this blog after submitting my dissertation this August!! Some people ask me why I would like to write a blog. It is simply. I start from knowing nothing on how to bake to know a little how to bake. It is not only sharing the recipe, but also sharing how much happiness I enjoy it. In Asia, we have few chance to bake. Oven is not the must-to-have kitchenware in Taiwan. I learn everything from the very beginning. So, I think if I can do it. Lots of people can do it. At the end of this year, I would like to encourage people on trying some new things. Then, you will explore out your adventure.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: Around 15 minutes
Recipe: 8 Sesame Bread

                      

Steps of Sesame Bread

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.
(2) Add 110 ml water with instant yeast and egg into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(*Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I leave 1 table spoon of egg for brushing.
**Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)
(3) Then, knead olive oil into the dough.

 

(4) Move the dough into the floured table. Knead milk into the dough gradually until it turns softer and more elastic.

(5) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

(6) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Separate it to 8 small balls equally.

 

 

(7) Roll one small ball into a long stick. Fold in one side and press it into a flat dough. And lightly moisten both ends with water. Using the flat end wraps another end and press to join. Slightly widen the hole in the middle.

(8) Brush egg over the top. And then, drizzle some sesame over the top.

(9) Repeat step (7) and (8) for the rest of 7 dough.
(10) Set aside at a warm place and wait for bagels double the size again. It takes around 40 ~ 60 minutes.

(11) After the double the size, send them into the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. It takes around 15 minutes until it turns golden on the top.

 

 

It has a very crispy surface. I like it to serve warm and be split with butter. It will make bread moister. Try this new style bread and enjoy it.

 

Butter Roll

Advent calendar should be another game expected by children during X’mas, shouldn’t it? A very special box is used to count down the day to X’MAS. People can open a window every day. And there is always a chocolate or sweetie inside. So, today is 1^st December that I believe lots of children can’t wait to open their advent calendar. There are only 24 days left to X’mas. Every family is very busy in preparation. Get X’mas tree out, assemble it, and decorate it. Let us count down to X’Mas together!

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 12~15 minutes
Recipe: 16 Butter Rolls

 Steps of Butter Roll

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.

(2) Add 210 ml milk with instant yeast and egg into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(*Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I leave 1 Table Spoon of egg for the brushing later.
**Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)

(3) Knead olive oil into the dough. Then, keep kneading the dough until it turns softer and more elastic.

(4) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

(5) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Separate it to 2 equally.

(6) Get 1 dough. Roll it to a circle. The diameter is around 30 minutes

(7) Brush butter over the top. Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces.

(8) Roll into the crossiant-like from the base of triangle

(9) Repeat step (6)~(8) for another dough. Then, Brush some egg and leave in the warm place to grow up. It takes around 40~60 minutes

(10) Send it into the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. Bake it around 12~15 minutes until the top turns golden.

I like this butter roll since I was in Taiwan. Finally, I got time to bake it. The taste is like what I ate. The bread absorbs the flavor of butter. Every bite you can enjoy it. If you are butter-lovers, Come and try this bread. And ENJOY IT!

Cheesy Tiger Bread

Yes… Yes… Tiger Bread AGAIN!! As I blogged in Tiger Bread, my friends LOVE Tiger Bread!! They love this simple, but with a little crispy top of bread. They ask me if I could bake another Tiger Bread!! My answer is, “Of course, YES”

But, baking same recipe will make me feel boring so that I decide to add knead some cheese into the bread. Why not? My kitchen is my playground that I can do whatever I want to do.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 12~15 minutes
Recipe: 8 Cheesy Tiger Bread

 

Steps of Cheesy Tiger Bread

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.
(2) Add 200 ml milk with instant yeast and egg into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(*Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I leave 1 Table Spoon of egg for the brushing later.
**Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)
(3) Knead olive oil into the dough. Then, keep kneading the dough until it turns softer and more elastic.

(4) Knead the grazed cheese into the dough until it is distributed equally

(5) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

(6) Prepare the topping: Mix all topping ingredients together and then leave their 20 minutes.

 

(7) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Separate it to 8 small balls equally. Brush some egg.
(8) Then, scoop the topping over the topping of breads. Leave the bread at a warm place to double the size again.

(9) Send it to the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 and bake around 15~20 minutes until the top turns golden and crispy.

(10) Try to brush some butter over the top that it makes it look shining.

Because of cheese, the bread is very soft even we ate at the third day after baking. Guess what kind of Tiger Bread I will bake next time? Enjoy it.

Yogurt Bread

At my house, my friend and I are both bread lovers. We eat bread every single day. We might not only eat it in breakfast, but also in lunch or tea time. So, bread is very quickly to be consumed at our house. Occasionally, we are very lazy to bake breads from the scratch so that we will use “bread mix.” It is easy to knead, and it takes less than an hour. And then, you can have fresh bread to eat.

But, mostly, we still bake fresh bread from the beginning. Mix flour, sugar, salt, and knead until it becomes soft and elastic. If you don’t have dough mixer, like me, you might need around 20~30 minutes to knead the dough. I just see it as a work out.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: Around 12~15 minutes
Recipe: 9 Yogurt Bread

Steps of Yogurt Bread

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.

(2) Add milk with instant yeast and yogurt into the bowl. Mix all ingredients well.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)
(3) Then, move the dough into a floured table. Knead olive oil into the dough. Knead the dough until it turns soft and elastic.

(4) Add raisin into the dough. Knead around 2 minutes until it distributes evenly. Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

(5) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Separate it to 9 small balls equally. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size again. It takes around 40 ~ 60 minutes

(6) Brush some egg or water over the top of dough. Send it to the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 and bake around 15~20 minutes until the top turns golden.

 
Because of yogurt, the taste of yogurt is softer. Every bite has a very lighter flavor of yogurt. It is a good idea to mix yogurt into the bread. It sounds more health. Enjoy it.

Pumpkin Bread

It has been a week after Halloween. Time flies, doesn’t it? Actually, all shops started to display their X’mas things on the day after Halloween. OH MY GOD…  X’mas is coming… AGAIN!! I need to start to prepare some X’Mas gifts for my friends. And, this will be the second X’Mas I will have in the UK.

After Halloween, we still left some pumpkin. But, it was too much pumpkin to eat after you ate pumpkin for all week. So, I left that little piece in the fridge. I don’t want to do any sweet thing with pumpkin so that I thought… Why not do a pumpkin bread as my breakfast?!

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6
Baking Time: 15~20 minutes
Recipe

 

 

Steps of Pumpkin Bread

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.

(2) Add 130 ml milk with instant yeast, pumpkin puree, and egg into the bowl. Mix all ingredients well.
(*Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I leave ONE table spoon of egg for brushing.
**Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)

(3) Then, move the dough into a floured table. Fold olive oil into the dough.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Because this dough is very wet and sticky, it is really hard to handle it. I fold it a little bit only.)

(4) Trying to shape the bread as a big rectangle on the greased baking tray. Let it grow around 3 hours at room temperature slowly.
(5) Brush some egg or water over the top
(6) Send it to the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 and bake around 15~20 minutes until the top turns golden and crispy.

 

LOOK… How beautiful air holes in my pumpkin bread. I didn’t knead the dough that it is too wet and sticky to manage it. Instead, I folded it after mix all ingredients well. I prolong the time of proving and skip the second grow-up process that makes bread very soft.
I love my pumpkin bread a lot. Try a different bread for your breakfast or tea time. Enjoy it.

Crossiant

Lots of people have very complicated feeling about crossiant. People love crossiant because of the crispy, but we are afraid of knowing how much butter bakeries use. Although not everyone has this king of feeling, but most of us have. When I told to my friend I’m doing Crossiant, my friend said I’m not coming to kitchen now. Because I don’t want to know how much butter you use in. Hee… Not a lot!!

Someone said I’m crazy to bake crossiant by myself because you can buy 4 for a pound!! I know it, but I just like to do it. So, enjoy your Crossiant

Oven Temperature Settig: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 15~20 minutes

Recipe: 12

 

 

Steps of Crossiant

(1) Add flour, salt and sugar into a big bowl. Mix a little.

(2) Add 200 ml milk with instant yeast into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: My instant yeast’s instruction is to add yeast in the water around 5 minutes. Check the instruction before using it.)

(3) Then, move dough to a floured table and knead the dough until it turns soft and elastic.

(4) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

(5) After the first grow-up, move the dough to floured table. Roll it into a big flat, around 30X50 cm.

(6) Place 200g butter in the middle of the place. Fold one third into the middle. And then, fold another one third on top. Then, it will turn into a long strip.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Leave around 2 cm at the top and bottom of the edge. Then, butter will not be split at rolling later.)

(7) Fold one third into the middle from the top. And the fold another one third into the middle from the bottom. Then, wrap with a kitchen film. Put in the freezer. Wait for 30 minutes.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: It will be easier to handle the dough.)
(8) Then, roll it into a 30X 50 cm rectangle. Repeat (6) and (7) at least 3 more time.

(9) Roll it into a 30X50cm rectangle. Cut the dough into 12 triangles like the picture.

(10) Roll into the crossiant from the base of triangle

(11) Leave in the cold place to grow up. It takes around 90~120 minutes.
(12) Brush some egg and then send it into the pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. Bake it around 15 minutes until the top turns golden and crispy.

Fresh Crossiant is also so yum. Crispy top and soft inside. Who can say NO to this delicious bread?! Just enjoy it!