Lekue Silicone Breadmaker

 

 

 A week or so ago an advert popped up on my Facebook page for the Lekue Silicone Breadmaker. I had a look on YouTube and decided that this tool would make my bread baking a lot easier as I like to use the no knead overnight proving method which results in a very wet dough and extremely hard to handle. This tool does everything in the one bowl and final result comes out untouched by human hands

Anyway I bought the Lekue and have made my first loaf with it and pretty pleased with the results. I found that the recipe had a touch too much liquid in it and I have therefore cut down on the original recipes water. I do find that generally our flours that we get here in South Africa have a high moisture content. I have added a few little touches of my own as well.

Ingredients.

200g white flour (Gideon Milling)

200g wholewheat flour (Eureka)

1 cup mixed seeds (sunflower, linseed and pumpkin Seeds)

2 Tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1 tsp dried yeast

330ml water slightly warmed if the weather is cold

Method.

Mix all the dry ingredients together in the bread maker. I find that a solid silicone spatula works great.

Add the olive oil and water and mix with the spatula until well combined.

Close up the breadmaker and cover with plastic wrap.

Leave to stand overnight or 6 to 8 hours minimum to prove and double in size.

Open the breadmaker up and knock the dough down with the spatula.

Close up again and recover with the plastic wrap to rise again for 2 hours.

Put that breadmaker into a 200c preheated oven for 40 minutes to bake.

Take it out the oven using oven gloves, open it up and put the loaf back into the oven for 10 minutes to brown.

Allow to cool for at least 30 minutes on a wire rack