No-Knead Soft Milk Bread

Making bread is fun for most, but a headache for some, especially if you are not patient. I always find an easy recipe to follow for most of my bread recipes because I am one of the people who do not have patience to make bread the traditional way. This sweet milk bread is best made by a lazy person, but the result is still fantastic. This bread is soft and sweet with a hint of coconut milk. This recipe bakes up with just a few quick steps with very little mess. Making this bread for breakfast or for a snack can be enjoyed often.

Ingredients:

Wet ingredients:

1 egg

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup coconut milk or regular milk

Dry ingredients:

2 ½ cups of all-purpose flour or bread flour

2 tsp instant yeast or active dry yeast

Other ingredients and equipment:

1/4 cup soft butter

1 egg 

Large baking tray lined with parchment paper

Large bowl with lid

Directions:

In a glass container, combine the sugar, salt, and coconut milk. Warm it up in a microwave for just 1 minute because then the milk will not be too hot to kill the yeast nor not too cold to activate the yeast.

Add egg and mix well.

In a bowl, combine the flour and yeast. Pour the egg-milk mixture over the dry ingredients and whisk until no dry flour remains. Let it rest for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, stir in the soft butter. Use your hands to mix the butter into the dough.

Cover with lid and let it sit at room temperature to rise until double in size.

When the dough is double in size (about 60 to 70 minutes depending upon the temperature in your kitchen), sprinkle flour on the countertop and place the dough on the flour. Divide the dough into 8 equal portions. 

Flour your hands and stretch each portion of the dough into a long strip (about 5 inches long).

Place each strip side by side touching each other onto the prepared baking tray. 

Cover with a towel and let rise a second time (about 40 minutes).

After the dough has risen for a second time, break an egg and brush it over the dough.

Bake in the preheated oven at 350° for 15 minutes. Let cool and enjoy.