Baking butterflies….and a Perfect Eggless Orange Loaf
It just struck to me that I have not posted any bread recipes using the yeast till date. The first time I baked a bread was way back in 1984 during my 10th board exams. I wanted to divert myself to something more exciting and appealing than the boring and lifeless formulas and equations of chemistry 🙂 And bread making was one such area.
I did bake a bread and my mom took it to her office and asked (or forced, should I say) everyone to taste and pass on the comments to me. I came to know much later that while I passed in good colors in my board exams, my bread sank 🙁
Still whenever I bake a bread I have butterflies in my stomach. More often I opt for baking my breads with leavening agents (baking soda) which is much easier and quicker, rather than baking with yeast.
I just baked this egg less Orange Loaf without any measurements and any particular recipe. It is egg less and has very little oil in it. Hope I remember the ingredients correctly.
Ingredients;
- 1 cup of refined flour
- 1/2 cup of wholewheat flour
- Juice of 1/2 orange
- 1 tsp. of orange zest
- 1 tsp. of active dry yeast
- 2 tsp. of warm water
- 2 tsp. of honey
- A pinch of salt
- 4-5 tsp. of vegetable oil/olive oil
Method: Heat 2 tsp. of water and mix with the honey. Add 1 tsp. of active dry yeast in the warm water mix and keep it aside for 10 minutes to let the yeast work. Bubbles will form in the water. Yeast is ready to work.
Instant yeast is much easier to work with than the dry yeast, it reduces the baking hours also.
Grate the orange peel and take out the zest, do not grate the white part of the peel. Squeeze the juice of half orange.
Take a big vessel and add both the flours, salt and the orange zest in it. Make a well in the center and pour the warm water mix, oil and orange juice in it. Start knead the flour into a dough with light hands.
The dough will be quite sticky, oil your hands and knead it for 10 minutes. Put the dough in a vessel and cover it with an aluminum foil or a lid and keep it away for 1 hour to let it rise.
After 1 hour the dough would have risen and will look light and soft to touch.
Punch the dough and knead it again using oil in your hands. Knead it lightly with your palm for 5-7 minutes.
Grease a bread tin and put this dough into it. Cover it again with an aluminum foil and keep it away in a warm place to rise again.
Remove the foil after 45 minutes and brush the dough with milk. Bake it at 180°C for 25 minutes till done.
The perfect loaf fresh from the oven, wish I can simulate the heady smell of this bread.
My son could not wait to have a go at this flavorful bread. I sliced it as soon as I took it out from the oven. The slice did not come even, but my son just enjoyed and kept on telling, “mom you can bake a bread also, it tastes and looks same as bakery bread” I got my medal there 🙂
Cool the bread before slicing to get even and thin slices.
The orange zests in this egg less bread makes it very flavorful and delicious.
I thought of taking the pictures the next day, as it becomes easy to slice a cold bread. To my surprise I got just 4 slices from my beautiful loaf !! In fact you will get about 12-14 thin slices from the same bread. The rest of the slices from this loaf tells the success story of this delicious egg less Orange Loaf 🙂
Note;
- Can avoid orange altogether if you do not like any flavors in your bread, use the same amount of milk or water instead.
- Cool the bread before slicing for getting the perfect slices.
- Discard the yeast if it does not froth in warm water, else your bread will not have good texture.
- Knead the dough with light and oily hands to remove any air bubbles trapped during the first rise.
When it comes to baking a loaf, I would rather let the Hen bake the bread and be one among her three little friends 🙂 On a serious note, bread making is really therapeutic and satisfactory. Shall bake many more and post it for you soon. Take care.
Eggless n looks so soft and yum
Looks delicious. I can actually smell the aroma of freshly baked bread that you are talking about. Can I bake bread with only baking powder and no yeast.
@Veena, yes you can bake it with baking powder also.
What a perfect bread !! SUPERB !!
wonderful bread .. I bake lots of bread n never buy any kind of bread . Never tried orange in bread though. tempted to try now.
Fabulous recipe sanjeeta. The bread looks so moist and fluffy. Would love to dig into right now 🙂
I’ve not come across orange in a loaf before now I see this it seems such a good idea. I am hoping to make more bread nowadays!
Yummy Bread!!! So Fluffy!!! Can you pls tell me whether i can use store-bought orange juice, if yes, then how much?
@Priya, you can use store bought orange juice, but I feel it might give you a slight bitter taste. Fresh juice is always preferred, or skip the juice and make a plain bread. Replace the juice with milk instead.
Looks very good,looks very bread-y to me.
gorgeous..super soft it looks
The bread looks delicious!
wow..amazing recipe and i can smell the freshness of citrus here sanjeeta
this looks wonderful can I feature it on a FL citrus growers blog? rebecca
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@Rebecca, you are most welcome to do that. Best wishes, take care.
You started baking at that age?…hats off to you man. I never baked even a readymade cake so far:( Loved ur version, beautiful step by step pictures.
flavourful soft bread delicious
Eggless orange loaf looks delicious.
Sanjeeta this bread looks wonderful! I love fresh bread, nothing else like it! I love the fresh juice in it too.
-Gina-
That does look perfect! So perfectly baked!
yeast in water looks cute and bread looks divine!
Looks so soft and I bet it tastes delicious with a wonderful hint of tangy orange.
Delicious and soft bread….
Thanks Sanjeeta.
The bread looks so delish! Yum, I love homemade bread. I totally agree with you about baking being therapeutic.
What a lovely loaf! The bread must be fragrant with the orange juice and zest.
This looks wonderfully moist and delicious. It would be very popular at my house. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings…Mary
What a beautiful bread, I love the flavour, and the look of the lovely soft texture on the inside. Delicious. Your house must have smelled amazing when this was in the oven.
*kisses* HH
Wow perfect loaf… yummm
It sounds and looks fantastic! So moist and flavorful!
This looks like such an incredibly moist bread…with such nice flavor 🙂
What a lovely bread! Adding orange juice brings that special taste. Perfect and yummy loaf dear…
Your orange-scented loaf sounds so fantastic!
It sounds quite delicious, and looks nice and light and fluffy…
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Hi sangeeta, that is lovely bread, I have baked a Eggless cake using orange juice never thought of baking bread! should try this out some time…
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What a wonderful bread.I love how you added the orange bread and I can just imagine how wonderful it must smell like while baking.I saw your blog from the foodie blog roll and I’d love to guide Foodista readers to your site. Thanks
Perfect Loaf.. My bread have sunk eevry time I have tried to make one.. Still busting up my couarge to this one..
Hi,
I have tried this one today.. till now it has gone right and i hv put it in the oven for baking.. Fingers crossed! Just a question.. What is the measurement of yr cup.. Mine is 1 cup = 235 ml.. I got 40 ml of orange juice.. But while kneading the dough i had to use more warm water..as the juice n oil was not enough to form the dough.. will let you know.. how it turns up..
It was by far my most succesful bread baking attempt.. The crust turned abit hard though.. I took it out in time.. The inside was moist and soft.. Just toasted a slice and had with raspberry jam.. Thanks..
Will be definately trying some more bread recipes soon.. Cheers
@Jyoti, sorry I could not reply to your question. ‘Try, try till you succeed’ is the phrase meant for for bread baking I suppose. Good that you liked the bread. Hope next time you get a perfect loaf and I am going to see that wonderful loaf of yours in your blog soon. Best wishes, take acre.
This looks wonderful! I ve been craving oranges lately and this bread looks so soft and moist.
Wow this looks delicious..!!giving it a try.. 🙂
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