Soft Pumpkin Bread

Preparation Time : 35 minutes
Cooking Time : 3 hours 19 minutes
Yield : 10-12 slices of bread
Freezer Friendly : Yes

Starter Dough Ingredients:

100g bread flour

70g boiling water

Starter Dough Steps:

1) Pour boiling water onto bread flour, mix with fork. 

2) Refrigerate for 20mins or overnight (more than 8 hours).

Bread Ingredients:

Starter dough

40g grapeseed oil

100g pumpkin puree

50g water

2 tbsp formula milk (or normal milk powder)

2 tbsp brown sugar

Pinch of salt

200g bread flour

50g all purpose flour

1.5 tsp active dry yeast

Bread Steps:

1) Remove breadpan from breadmaker.

2) Put in all the above ingredients except starter dough (in sequence listed above).

3) Insert and lock breadpan into breadmaker.

4) Select Mode No.1 (basic bread), select weight 700g, select crust intensity light, press start. (I use Donlim Breadmaker)

5) When all ingredients are combined, around 2 minutes, add in starter dough bit by bit. 

6) Bread should be done in 3hours and 19 minutes.

Tips : Remove bread from breadmaker immediately when the bread is ready to avoid the bread shrinking.

Serve with your favorite jam or toppings, otherwise, throw into freezer ziplock bread for the coming busy week on-the-go breakfast! To serve, just steam for 15 minutes ( I throw into the steamer straight from the freezer the moment I wake up so that when I am ready to go, so is the bread) and it tastes as soft as freshly made!

Original recipe : Donlim Breadmaker Recipe Book