Semolina Bread

Ingredients list for Semolina Bread

• 3½ cups Semolina (rawa/suji)
• 1 tablespoon Yeast
• for greasing Butter for brushing +
• for dusting Refined flour (maida)
• a pinch Sugar
• 1½ teaspoons Salt
• ¼ cup Olive oil
• Milk for brushing
• ½ cup Castor sugar (caster sugar)

Method

1. Put yeast in a small bowl, add some warm water and sugar and set aside to activate for 2 minutes.
2. Put semolina in a bowl. Add salt and castor sugar and mix well. Add activated yeast and mix well. Add 1 cup warm water gradually and knead well.
3. Add olive oil to ½ cup warm water in a jar and mix well. Add the water-olive oil mixture to the dough, gradually, and knead into a soft dough. Transfer the dough on worktop and stretch till well incorporated.
4. Grease a loaf tin with some butter and dust with some refined flour.
5. Give the dough an oblong shape and put into the tin, cover the tin with a damp cloth and set aside to prove for 25-30 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 180ºC.
7. Brush some milk on top of the dough. Place the tin on a baking tray, put the baking tray in preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and brush some butter and set aside to cool.
8. Demould, slice and serve.

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