Description
Are you looking for a new baking adventure? Discover and enjoy this South African Potjie Bread recipe and add a touch of South African flavor to your home-cooking collection.
Ingredients
Units
Scale
- 500 g white bread flour
- 500 g wholewheat flour
- 12 ml salt
- 25 ml white sugar
- 10 g instant yeast
- 500 ml milk
- 500 ml water
- 40 ml butter or margarine
Instructions
- Mix the dry ingredients and yeast in a big mixing bowl.
- Heat the milk, water, and butter until lukewarm.
- Add enough lukewarm mixture to the dry ingredients to form a soft dough.
- Knead until elastic and leave in a warm place to rise.
- Knead lightly and shape into a ball.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F.
- Grease a medium-sized, flat-bottomed, cast-iron pot with butter or margarine and place the dough inside.
- Also, grease the top of the dough and the inside of the lid with butter.
- Put the lid on and leave in a warm place until the dough has doubled in volume.
- Bake at 200C/400F for 15 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 180C/356F.
- Bake for another hour, or until cooked and the bread sounds hollow when tapped. Leave in the pot to cool slightly, then remove.
- Makes 1 large loaf.
Notes
Created, Prepared, tried, and tested by Clive from SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 524
- Sugar: 6.3 g
- Sodium: 741.2 mg
- Fat: 5.7 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 99.4 g
- Fiber: 3.5 g
- Protein: 16.7 g
- Cholesterol: 11.6 mg
