Cardamom Quick Bread (Tasty Easy Recipe) - Heavenly Home Cooking (2024)

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How to make homemade bread more tasty? ›

You can also add herbs and seasonings such as garlic, rosemary, dill, chopped onion, jalapeño, shredded cheese, chopped nuts, dried cranberries, etc. My no yeast bread is the quick bread alternative here—you can add flavors to that loaf, too! Baker's Tip: Avoid adding too much flour to the dough as you work with it.

"Quick bread" is a term used to describe any and all breads that are made without yeast as a leavening agent. They are leavened chemically, usually with baking powder or baking soda, and can be with sweet or savory. Technically, most sweet breads (section 8) are also quick breads.

A great way to add flavor to home-baked bread is to use a variety of herbs and spices. Whether you're looking to use up extra basil or rosemary before it loses flavor or interested in bringing cloves, nutmeg, or poppy seeds into your bread baking, there are many possibilities and inspirational recipes.

Spices and other ingredients such as pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, fennel and cardamom, give bread added flavour and character. Wheat flour is available in many varieties and is the flour most used in Sweden. It has a high protein and gluten content, providing fluffier bread.

The possibilities are endless, but the common factor is the basic ingredients of fat, sugar, eggs, flour, liquid, leavening agent, and a flavoring ingredient.

If your recipe has a lot of gluten formation, you may want to soften the texture by adding an egg, or one whole egg plus an extra egg yolk. If you are making a quick bread, the protein in an egg can add necessary structure. Another way to use eggs for dramatic effect is to use an egg wash on top of your loaf.

Salt adds flavor to bread. If none or too little is used in a recipe, the bread will lack the right flavor and taste "bland." If you reduce the amount of salt, try adding some dried herbs to increase the flavor. Too much yeast in bread will give bread an off-taste.

Using fresh ingredients to flavour your dough

Fresh vegetables such as peppers and cherry tomatoes work really well in bread dough. But don't add them in raw – they'll add too much moisture to your dough. Instead, roast them in the oven to both increase their flavour and dry them out.

If the bread has fat, sugars, eggs or milk, extra fermentation time may not help much with flavor. As others have said, the amount of salt is crucial to flavor. Use about 2% of the weight of the flour as salt. For 3 to 3.5 cups of flour use 1 to 1.25 teaspoons of table salt.

How do you make homemade bread rise better? ›

You can also put hot water in a heat-safe dish and place it on the floor of a cold oven (or on a lower shelf). The steam and heat from the water will help the temperature rise just enough that the yeast is active. The steam will also assist in keeping the surface of the dough moist so it will stretch as it rises.