Solar recipe: Organic bread

Here’s a delicious recipe for making your own organic bread with a lovely crusty crust! This recipe was suggested by our Solar Sister Francine and was made using a parabolic solar cooker. Francine also shares her tips and tricks for making the best bread with solar baking.

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Recipe suggested by : Francine – Solar oven: parabolic type, SunGlobe – Preparation time: 10 minutes – Baking time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

1kg organic multigrain flour
2 tbsp salt
80 cl warm water
1 sachet baker’s yeast

Preparing the organic bread recipe

Mix the flour and salt in a bowl.
Pour the yeast into the warm water and add to the flour a little at a time, stirring well.
Knead by hand, adding a little flour to prevent the dough from sticking to your fingers, for 5 minutes.
Leave to stand for 2 hours.
Place the bread dough in a 24 cm-diameter pan for 2? hours in the sun in a medium-hot oven.

Advice

After 1? hours of cooking, turn the pan to 190°.

After baking for 2 hours, open and prick into the dough with a round-tipped knife. If the dough sticks to the knife, cook longer.

Tips

Making the same loaf in a smaller pan reduces cooking time to around 1h30.

To prevent the top of the bread from darkening, cover the glass lid with a cotton cloth (very important, otherwise the synthetics will burn) at half-time.

Result: the bread is excellent, with a crisp brown crust.