If you love making bread at home then you will enjoy this bread machine white bread recipe. It makes a vegan 1.5 lb sandwich bread that is soft and fluffy. You will find all the tips on how to make bread machine bread fluffy, light, soft, how to avoid making it dense, and how to bake it in the oven.
7gramsInstant Yeast or Bread Machine yeast(2 ¼ tsp)
Instructions
Bake in bread machine
Place the wet and dry ingredients (water, oil, sugar, salt, flour, yeast) in the order as required by your bread machine.
Close the lid and select the "Basic" cycle, 1.5 lb size and the preferred crust setting.
The bread will be ready once the cycle completes.
Remove the loaf by inverting the pan and shaking it.
Place the bread on a cooling rack and allow it to cool down.
Once the bread is cooled down completely, slice it with a serrated bread knife or an electric knife.
Bake in the oven
Place the wet and dry ingredients (water, oil, sugar, salt, flour, yeast) in the order as required by your bread machine.
Close the lid and select the "dough" cycle.
Once the cycle completes, remove the dough from the pan and shape it into a log of 8 inches in length.
Place it in the bread baking pan (9 by 5 inches) and allow it to rise for about 45-50 minutes until it doubles in volume.
Cover with a food wrap or a kitchen towel so that it does not dry up.
Once it has doubled in volume, preheat the oven to 350 °F.
Remove the food wrap gently and then place the pan in the oven.
Bake for about 20 minutes or until the crust is golden brown in color.
Transfer it to a cooling rack and allow it to cool down completely before slicing.
Notes
Sifting and weighing the flour helps make the bread soft. Sifting is optional, however, weighing the flour gives consistent results.
Once the bread is baked, remove it from the container and place it on a rack to cool down. Leaving the bread in the container to cool down can make it moist.
Recipe makes 1.5 lb. bread. To make 1 lb. bread change servings to 8 and for 2 lb. bread, change servings to 16.