Ragi bread | Finger millet bread -No oven, homemade-How to make-Step by step photos & Video

Cuisine Style : India | Preparation time: 20 min| Cooking time : 45 min | To Serve : 5 | Type : New year, christmas special, Snacks | Take with : Tea, coffee, milk

How to make Ragi bread video

Dry Ingredients

• Ragi flour [Finger millet flour]- 1.5 cup
• Maida - 1/2 cup
• Salt- 1/4 tsp
• Active dry Yeast - 1.5 tsp
• Sugar - 3 tbsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Butter - 1 inch cube
• Warm Milk & Warm water - as needed or[Apr 300 ml]

Preparation

• Take 5 littre pressure cooker.
• Remove gasket & whistle from the pressure cooker lid.
• Then place grid.
• Preheat pressure cooker for 5 to 10 min on medium flame.
• Grease baking tin with butter and sprinkle flour.
• In a bowl add 1 tsp active dry yeast, sugar & warm milk mix well.
• Then leave it for 5 min. [You can see frothy like consistency-This is perfect]
• In another bowl add ragi flour, maida, salt, oil mix well.
• Add activated yeast mixture mix well.
• Then add butter knead it using spatula for another 2 min.
• Then pour 1 tbsp oil over the dough, cover with wet cotton cloth, let it rise for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours, you can see the dough is double in size
• Sprinkle flour knead it using spatula for 2 min
• Then fold and make oval shape
• Palce it in a bread tin, cover with cotton cloth rise it again for 2 hour
• Then place bread tin in pressure cooker, Close lid & bake it for 30 to 35 on medium flame.
• Once its ready carefully remove baking tray then un-mould & let it cool.
• Slice and serve with jam/butter.

Note

• Before baking in pressure cooker remove gasket & whistle.
• You can add milk & egg
• Instead of egg you can use fresh curd.
• You can add any nuts
• For cinnamon bread add cinnamon powder, brown sugar & butter
• You can replace yeast with baking powder & baking soda
• For spinach bread:- Use spinach, green chilli puree
• For red bread:- Use beetroot puree
• For garlic bread:-Use chopped garlic, olive oil, coriander
• For mint bread:-Add mint, garlic & coriander paste
• For carrot bread:-Use carrot puree
• For pumpkin bread:-Use pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice powder[Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves & ginger]
• For tomato bread:-Use sauted tomato, garlic & dry red chilli puree

How to make Ragi bread-Step by step photos

Add active dry yeast

Add sugar

Add warm water, mix well, then let it rise

After 3 min

After 5 min

In a bowl add ragi flour

Add maida

Add milk powder

Mix well

Add activated dry yeast

Add warm milk

Add butter, knead it for 5 min

Dough ready

Cover it, let it rise

After 2 hours, dough is double in size

Put the dough in a bread pan

Evenly spread

Now its ready

Cover it, let it rise for 1 hour

1 hour later, dough is double in size

Grease with melted butter

palce it in pre-heated pressure cooker, cook for 25 min on medium flame

Now its ready, remove it from cooker

Let it cool

De-mold

Slice

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