Oats and cheese cupbread

Oats and cheese cupbread

Those who love baking will relate with the amazing feeling of baking breads, its therapeutic and really boosts our senses. Bread baking is no rocket science, have seen many people hesitating to bake breads when they fail at the first or second attempt. All I would say is keep trying and get there, its not difficult at all. Few pointer which you need to concentrate in bread baking are the rising of the yeast and the rising of the dough. In fact the rising of the dough comes perfect if you have got the yeast working right. You get it right by practice, I will explain in the possible way here too. 

Ingredients 
Whole wheat flour - 1 cup
Oats - 1 cup
Refined flour/ All purpose flour/Maida - 1 cup
Olive oil - 2 tbspn
Sugar - 2 tbspn
Yeast - 1 1/4 tbspn
Water - 1 cup
Salt - 1 tspn
Cheese cubes and oregano and chilli flakes.

Method

• The crucial step in bread making as I said above is fermentation of the yeast. For this purpose the water should be luke warm which means if the water is more or less warm than required the yeast will not work or ferment. So if u have microwave heat one cup of water in a microwave proof large glass bowl for one minute at high power. On stove top water should be just a little more warm than just being warm. 
• Remove the bowl from the microwave, add sugar and the sprinkle yeast over the water, stir with a fork and leave it aside for 10- 15 mins. You would see a froth in the bowl which is nothing but fermentation of yeast. If you have not got this step right I would recommend to repeat the step until you see a frothy mixture. :)
• Once the yeast has fermented sieve one cup each of flours in small gaps mixing the dough with the hand mixer with dough hook attachments, you can also use your hands. I would recommend hand mixer if you mind messed up fingers :)
• Once the flour has come together add the olive oil and mix it again. Knead the dough thoroughly and leave the dough in the bowl covered for about one hour in a warm place.
• After one hour you would see the dough doubled, that shows your bread dough is right and yeast has worked perfect. Now knock down the air of the dough.
• Now since we are making cubreads :) , divide the dough and place in cupcake moulds and insert a small cheese cube in each cup.
• Now preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius, meantime the dough will rise again.
• Season the dough with oregano and chilli flakes on top and bake for about 20 minutes or until the bread has risen and top browned and we hear a hollow sound when tapped.

Remove the bread from oven and serve hot or warm or as per your choice.
Enjoy!