Purple Sweet Potato Bread Recipe

For many of us, we dread working with yeast and making homemade bread. Also, it’s so easy to just pick up a loaf just about anywhere. So with all that working against us, why even bother?  I’ll tell you why, because this recipe is so easy, so quick with my proofing hack, and so good, you’ll never want to pick up store bought!

Dutch oven breads are one of the easiest to throw together. You can leave them out to proof overnight, or if you’re craving bread on a whim like me most the time.. you can follow this recipe that requires no kneading and can be made within just an hour. Yep, you heard right, just about an hour and you have fresh bread!

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One of my personal favorite breads? Anything with color! You can seamlessly dye bread using without typical food coloring. One that I came across that I love, Ube bread! Purple sweet potatoes lend a gorgeous color that just can’t be replicate with food coloring. While you can use fresh Ube, you run the risk of over saturating the bread and you have more color control and can achieve more depth with color by using the powder!

Purple Sweet Potato Open Crumb Sourdough Bread

What’s great about this bread? As I said, everything! It’s my staple 1hr bread base except it features white whole wheat flour, its quick, easy, affordable, can be made with just white flour but I tried this one with bread flour, requires no kneading, you can mix up the add ins, it’s perfect for any season, the olive add a hint of moisture that just makes the texture perfection, has the perfect crust, is buttery soft, you can use more whole wheat flour,  aesthetically gorgeous, and pairs perfectly with a little butter and salt!

If you’re not a bread making person, but love a fresh loaf.. you have to give my 1hr bread recipes a try. Especially this 1 HR No Knead Oat Bread!I have made her few different breads but this is her favourite and she always requests this particular bread. This recipe is straight dough method. If you prefer old dough method, please clickJapanese Purple Sweet Potato Buns.

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Third Try At Making Purple Sweet Potato Bread!

Gluten forms when flour comes in contact with water. Hydration of the flour causes the sticky and stretchy protein to form, giving structure to the bread. This makes your bread trap air and rise.

The windowpane test is used to determine whether the dough has been sufficiently kneaded. By gently pulling the dough (or you may pinch off some dough) and trying to stretch it into a thin membrane. If you are able to stretch the dough paper thin and translucent without tearing, then the gluten is fully developed. However, if you can stretch it without tearing but the membrane is not transparent, then the gluten is not yet fully developed.

However, from my experiencenot all the recipe can achieve a thin and translucent window pane stage easily. For example low hydration and low fat dough. For such recipes, a reasonable window pane is good enough and it can be left to rest. Gluten will continue to develop while resting. Exercising restraint to not over-knead the dough prevents the gluten from being overworked and broken. Some of you may have experienced the dough breaking during the second proofing. It is because the dough is over kneaded.

Ingredient Purple Sweet Potato Bread » Run2food

The total kneading time for me is usually 15 minutes at low speeds except brioche dough with high fat percentage or dough using liquid fat which usually takes a little longer (maybe 18-20 mins).

From my experience, I found that high hydration dough with high percentage of fat will be easy to stretch and achieve a paper thin windowpane stage.

For kneading, please regard the timing provided as an indication only. It is only meant as a guide. Timing may differ depending on the brand of flour and electric mixer used. The protein content may vary from one brand of flour to another.

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Purple Sweet Potato Soft Sourdough Buns

FLOUR The right flour plays a very important role in bread making. To achieve fluffy, soft and light bread, I used Japan High Gluten Flour in most of my bread baking. The protein content is around 12 - 13%.

The liquid measurement given is also a guide. It is advisable to always reserve some liquid and not add it all in one go. This would give you the opportunity to adjust if necessary. If dough is too dry, add the reserve liquid one tablespoon at a time until the right consistency. This is because each flour absorbs water and hydrates differently.

Please note that the proofing timing may also vary depending on your climate and environment. The humidity and temperature at your place will influence how dough rises.

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If your bread collapses or gets wrinkled on top after removing from oven, it could be because your dough over proved during the second proofing. Please proof until it rises 80 - 90% in size or is slightly below the rim of the pan.

Do also note that the baking temperature and timing provided are what works for my oven and should also be regarded as a guide only. Every oven behaves a little differently, so please adjust accordingly for your oven.Soft, chewy, and stretchy mochi bread infused with mashed purple sweet potato is easy to make and is naturally gluten-free and eggless. The recipe works great with regular sweet potatoes too. A video tutorial is available too

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At this point in life, I think it’s pretty safe to say that I’m pretty hooked with mini cheese mochi bread. It’s all started with that recipe and since then I’ve made this purple sweet potato version and also the chocolate mochi bread loaf. With the shortages of yeast and also wheat flour (if you are still experiencing that problem), it’s great to use alternative flour like glutinous rice flour and tapioca starch/flour, which also happen to be gluten-free.

Hr No Knead Purple Sweet Potato Bread

You will need about 1 medium-large sweet potato. Peel the skin and cut into smaller pieces. If you have a pressure cooker like Instant Pot, place the sweet potato in a steamer basket. Pour 1 cup of water into a pot and put the steamer basket on top of a trivet. Pressure cook on high for 2 minutes. Release pressure immediately and mash the sweet potatoes while they are warm. You can also use a steamer and steam on the stove on high heat for 10 minutes or until they are fork-tender

Preheat oven to 375 F (180 C) for a conventional oven. If you use a convection oven please lower the temperature by 20 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat. Combine tapioca flour, glutinous rice, flour, and baking powder, mix to combine. Put the milk and butter in a saucepan. Simmer until the butter melts and then bring to a point of boiling and then turn off immediately. You need to make sure it comes to a rolling boil before turning off the heat. Immediately sift in the flour mixture

Then add mashed purple sweet potatoes, sugar, and ube extract (if using). Use a sturdy spatula to stir and combine into a rough dough and then use your hands to knead into a dough. It should be a slightly sticky dough. If it’s too dry you can add a bit more milk, teaspoon by teaspoon. Each brand of flour has different liquid absorption. So you may or may not need to add extra liquid. I didn’t have to.

Purple Sweet Potato Buns (old Dough Method)

Roll them into round balls. Place on the baking sheet about at least 1-inch apart. If the dough is a bit sticky you can lightly spray your palms with non-stick spray or just lightly oil your palm. Try not to add anymore flour

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Place baking sheet in the middle rack and bake for about 20 minutes until the bottom is slightly golden brown for small bread and 25-30 minutes for a larger size. Some of the bread may crack a little as it rises, that’s normal. If too many cracks, next time you can mist the shaped dough with some water before putting it into the oven. I didn’t do this

Remove from the oven and let stand for about 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack to let them cool down completely. They are best eaten when fresh. Once cooled down, the inside remains moist and stretchy

My Mind Patch: Breadmaker Purple Sweet Potato Bread

1. Please make sure when you melt the butter and milk, the milk comes to a boil and then immediately turn off and sift in the flour mixture and the rest of the ingredients. This is important to get a nice soft pliable dough

4. I recommend adding ube extract (purple in color), or purple sweet potato powder if you have any. Some purple sweet potatoes may change color because of acid/base balance. So by adding food coloring/extract, the color changes won’t show in the end product

No, they won’t. They taste the best the same day

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