Zurich-Banana-Kurkuma-Beer-Bread in a Dutch Oven
A bread created for fun on a sunday morning. Writting the recipe as I progress through the recipe.
Ingredients
- 300 grams dinkel flour
- 100 grams rye flour
- 8 grams of cinnamon
- 3 grams of chilli
- 100 grams wholewheat flour
- 6 grams salt
- 30 ml olive oil
- One bottle of your favorite beer (330 Ml). Mine is Pilgrim Aber for bread. Pilgrim forest beer for drinking.
- 10 grams of brown sugar
- 20 ml honey
- 4 grams kurkuma or more to taste
- 4 grams rough grinded black pepper
- 2 ripe bananas
- 25 grams of yeast
- 120 grams Tangzhong (100 grams water and 20 grams of flour mixed cooked to 65 degrees celcius)
- cornflour or another to cover the base of the dutch oven to stop the bread from burning
- baking paper in the shape of the dutch oven to cover the top of the bread
- a little water to add on top of the bread
Preparation
1mix the yeast with 35 degree warm water around 50 Ml and mix well. In anohter bowl mix the flour and the beer gently. Add the sugar, honey, kurkuma, and mix gently for 4 minutes. Now add the yeast water mixture and mix for anohter 3 minutes.
2Add the Tangzhong and the mix fast for 2 minutes. Add the salt mix well and finally the peeled bananas
3The dough will be wet however you see good gluten structure. If not mix a little more. Put in a warm spot covered with a wet towel for around 45 minutes.
4Gently remove some of the big yeast bubbles and flatten it gently. Put the bread in the a large silicone form and proof for another 30 minutes
5Preheat the oven and put the dutch oven in the oven. Pre heat to 240 degrees Celcius. After 25 minutes take the dutch oven out and carefully with gloves take it out of the oven
6cover the bottom with the corn flour or another coarse flour. Put the bread in gently. Cover the top in a a little water around 50 ML. Steam will start as the dutch oven is piping hot (This will forma nice crispy crust). Put the baking paper on top gently but fast. Close the dutch oven. Put quickly back in the oven and set the temperature to 220 degrees Celcius and bake for around 20 minutes.
7(CAREFUL SUPER HOT)After 20 minutes take of the top of the dutch oven. Remove the baking paper with tweezers. Close the oven, set the temperature to 190 degrees celcius and bake for anohter 40 - 45 minutes until the have the brown color you desire. Put it on a cooling rack and leave alonde for at least an hour.
To get a bigger bread. leave out the bananas and use 50% of the Tangzhong. And replace some of the denser flours with white flour. Honey is used for giving the bread more color. Can be replaced with a sugar of your choice.
