How I made bread with rice cooker

^{My delicious puffy bread}

I love experimenting with recipe and I love how I get to eat them whether I succeeded or fail. I always love bread, especially soft and fluffy bread. How I eat my bread most of the time is I heat them a little in a microwave so they become hot and soft. It's been such a long time since I made my own bread. So today I'm going to share my experience making bread the other night. I did not own any oven so I try baking it with my rice cooker. Haha! If you know me, I love having flour at home. I can survive if you give me just flour and some basic ingredient you know. I often make noodles, pancake or fritters with it. So the other night, I was bored and kind of missing cooking. So I went to the kitchen and found packets of yeast I bought but totally forgot about it. Before I start sharing my recipe, please bear in mind that I never count my portion. I only go with my gut. Let's bake!

First, bread need yeast so they can expand. Some people with sensitive nose might not like to smell yeast but for me, it's heaven! It is the smell of a bakery shop. We need to activate the yeast. IMPORTANT: YEAST CAN ONLY BE ACTIVATE WITH SUGAR AND NOT SALT. Haha! Pour some yeast and sugar into a bowl, then filled it with water. Give it a good stir, cover it with a plate and leave it in room temperature. Leave it for a good 10 minutes. Oh ya! May I remind you that making bread need patience as we are working with yeast.

^{If your yeast bubbled up like this, means it is activated}

Next, in a big mixing bowl, put in your flour, a pinch of salt, and sugar as much as you like. Give them a stir so that the salt won't be in contact with the yeast when you pour it in. Then pour in your activated yeast.

^{I like it to be a little sweet so I put in extra sugar}

Add in room temperature water a little and continue mixing. Add in water a little by little until your dough start forming. When it get sticky, pour in a little bit of oil so that you can knead the dough. You can pour some flour whenever your dough get sticky.

^{Knead this into a dough}

^{My dough is ready}

Now here's where you need to be patience. Once your dough is ready, let them sit in a room temperature for 1 hour. Yes! 1 hour. Cover the bowl with plastic wrapper or damp cloth. After an hour, your dough should double it originally size. Now lift it and drop it back into the bowl until it flatten. Not so hard tho'. Don't have to knead it again. Now oil your rice cooker. You can use normal oil or butter. This is to make sure that the dough will not stick to your rice cooker. If possible, use a nonstick rice cooker please as I keep burning my bread onto my rice cooker. haha! Wait! We are not ready to bake yet. Transfer your dough to your rice cooker and let it sit again for another hour. After an hour, we are now ready to cook it. Cook it for 15 minutes, turn off the switch and don't open your rice cooker yet. Let them just sit there so they can cook properly. This part is tricky and maybe the timing is not the same because we are not using the same rice cooker. Some people need to flip the dough and bake it each side.