Kitchen Princess: Yogurt Bread

I’m ending my contributions to the Oishinbo/Foodie MMF with two recipes from Kitchen Princess!  (I posted them both today because I am off to Fanime for the long weekend along with a self-imposed internet ban, and wasn’t sure how to format tweets correctly for posting in the future).

In the penultimate post, I attempt an easy sounding recipe for yogurt bread from volume 6, when Najika goes back to her childhood home, pre-foster care.

Yogurt Bread

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 TB baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup plain yogurt (I used lowfat)
• 1 TB sugar
• 1/4 cup milk (I used 1%)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl

Add yogurt, sugar, and milk to the mix and stir together with a rubber spatula.

When the dough hardens, put some flour on your hands and form it into a round shape.  If the dough is too crumbly, add a little bit more milk to soften it.  (The dough is SUPER sticky.  Also really crumbly, so I did have to add more milk.  I also had to pinch together some gaping cracks.  My end result was kinda lumpy looking and not a nice smooth ball like bread normally is.)

Put parchment paper on a cooking pan and place your dough ball on top.  Slit an “X” on the top of the bread with a sharp knife to help it bake better.

Lumpy cross bread.

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Bake for 25-30 minutes.  Bread is done when you stick a toothpick in the middle and it comes out clean.

All done.  Looks very… rustic.

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Let cool, and then slice and serve with butter and jam or honey.

I ate mine with butter and peach jam.  It was delicious!  There’s a very slight tang from the yogurt.  It’s a moist, dense bread.  When I spread the butter on, it didn’t absorb in very well at all, like it does with a French bread.  It’s sort of bland, but is really good once you add spreads.  The crust was nice, too, not too hard, but it had a good crunch.  Best of all, it was really fast since there’s no rising time from yeast.

(recipe is from Kitchen Princess, vol. 6, published by Viz Manga)