Pumpkin bread in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Measure the ingredients.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the pumpkin into small pieces, put it in a saucepan, pour water and boil until tender. To make the bread sweeter, you can sweeten the pumpkin when cooking by adding 1 tablespoon of sugar to it.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add nutmeg, sugar, salt and yeast to the sifted flour. Mix it up.

4. Step 4:

   

   Drain the water from the finished pumpkin, and mash the pumpkin itself with a fork.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour warm water and melted butter into the pumpkin. Stir until smooth.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pour pumpkin puree into the flour and knead thoroughly with your hands for about 10 minutes, if necessary, adding a little flour.

8. Step 7:

   

   The dough should be soft, plastic and slightly sticky.

9. Step 8:

   

   Roll the dough into a ball, put it in a bowl, cover with a towel and leave to come up for 1.5 hours.

10. Step 9:

    

    Form a loaf from the dough that has come up or just put it in a bread pan. Leave for 40 minutes in the heat for proofing. I have long wanted to make these slices with a thread. The bread is obtained in the form of a beautiful golden flower with rounded petals.

11. Step 10:

    

    Sprinkle the surface of the bread with flour. Put a small container of water on the bottom of the oven preheated to 180 ° C in advance. Put the bread above and bake for about 30 minutes until ready.