If you like to make bread at home, in Recipesgatis we want to encourage you to make this German bread recipe made with rye flour and beer to discover its special flavor. This homemade bread also carries a little black molasses, but you can replace it with honey (better a dark honey), or completely omit any type of sweetener. The result of this bread, also called Schwarzbrot, is an aromatic bread with a crumb very rich fine and a delicious taste. It is ideal to accompany cheeses and sausages, do not miss it either and to accompany your favorite recipes. From recipes, we tell you how to make German rye bread at home, so keep reading and find out.
| 🚻 4 Diners | 🕘 4h | 🍵 Medium Distribution | 🤯 |
| Ingredients to make German bread: |
| 175 milliliters of warm water. |
| ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: Average cost |
Ingredients to make German bread:
1. To start with your own German rye bread, dilute yeast in warm water.
2. In a bowl, mix it with rye flour and knead. Cover with film paper and let stand for 20 minutes.
3. Put in a wide bowl the common wheat flour, salt, black molasses or honey and rye flour fermented with yeast. Go adding the beer little by little while we knead. If you do it by hand, do it for 10-13 minutes. The dough has to be a little sticky, do not add excess flour, better add the beer little by little to get an optimal dough. If you do it with a kneader, put the kneading and knead hook for 7 minutes, adding the beer little Soon. It has to be taken off from the walls of the bowl, but with a little dough attached to the bottom of the bowl.
4. Cover with a kitchen cloth and let stand inside the bowl for an hour and a half in a warm place without air currents.
Trick: Let the dough take inside the oven off, thus avoid the air currents.
5. past the loyalty time, flour a work surface and put the dough in it. Also flour your hands and knead the German bread. A good way to do it is taking the ends of the bread and taking them to the center. It makes a very round ball, as if it were a ball, with the mass of German bread. Form a tray with baking paper and put the ball of bread dough. Cover with a kitchen cloth and let another hour and a half in a place without currents of air.
Trick: You can also make individual rolls.
6. Press the oven at 200 ºC. Put a container with a little water inside the oven to create water vapor. Slightly in the surface of the German bread dough and make some cuts with a sharp knife. Put the bread in the oven and cook at 200 ºC with heat up and down for 30-35 minutes. If you see that it is too above, it covers with a piece of aluminum foil.
7. Let the German bread cool on a rack so that it does not take moisture.
8. Once cold you can consume your own homemade German bread, you can also cut slices and freeze them. Consume it preferably the same day of its elaboration.
