Cornmeal and herb bread for a worthy cause

The glorious beauty of fall will vanish soon with the weather turning crisp & cold. It is freezing here and old weary leaves are falling down and within few days to come the roads will be lined up with empty stalks and barren branches. It was great that we managed to escape to the mountains last week but given the present day weather condition, it would have been too harsh for the little Rohan to go to Mount Laoshan.

Last week Aparna of MyDiversekitchen tagged me for a worthy cause a cause that is raised for alleviating poverty in Africa, a very thoughtful cause and is open to every one. Anyone can participate and there are quite a number of ways one can contribute.

There are various ways for you to get involved:
Join our campaign.
Submit your bread baking recipe.
Make a donation to Breadline Africa.
Vote for your favourite recipe.
Bake a loaf of bread and blog about it.
Bake many loaves of bread and host a bake sale.


Checkout out this to find out more on The world wide blogger bake off challenge.

On this noble occasion I thought of baking a herb cornmeal bread that often dotes my kitchen top. Seeing Deeba’s Moroccan holiday bread, I went on adding 1 tablespoon of instant yeast instead of regular 1 teaspoon and it did a make difference to my regular cornmeal bread. It was soft and here goes the list of ingredients to make a nice loaf and that too for a worthy cause.

Ingredients

1 cup bread flour
½ cup cornmeal
1teaspoon salt
4 teaspoon sugar
3 teaspoon mixed dried herbs (rosemary, parsley and basil)
2 teaspoon olive oil
½ cup plus two tablespoons lukewarm milk (110”F warm)
1tablespoon instant dry yeast
Few tablespoons of corn kernel
1 heaped teaspoon of sesame seeds

Method

In a bowl mix all the ingredients expect corn kernel and sesame. Knead to smooth and soft dough for about 7 to 8 minutes. Kneading is an important step and I am glad that my kitchen aid with a kneading attachment does a good work.

Lightly grease a bowl and rest the dough for one hour or until it has doubled. I had kept the dough near kitchen window that is blessed with ample of sunshine. Knuckle it down and add some corn kernels and give it an oblong shape. Wrap and rest for about 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven at 200’C and brush the top with milk and sprinkle sesame seeds. Bake for 30 minutes or until done. It should pass the simple test of sounding hollow when tapped underneath. Serve warm.

I prayed silently as I dunked and enjoyed it with roasted red pepper soup.



I have tagged the following bloggers to join in the campaign, please do feel free to join the campaign and if for any reason you can’t let us pray in our special way that the world is a little less cruel on the underprivileged. Like someone said “poverty is the biggest crime against humanity”.

Sowmya -http://creativesaga.blogspot.com/
Soma -http://www.ecurry.com/blog/
Yasmeen -http://yasmeen-healthnut.blogspot.com/
Jo -http://sugareverythingnice.blogspot.com/
Daziano - http://italialicious.blogspot.com/

I am also sending this recipe to Lore of culinarty.sapiensworks for hosting the Original Recipes - Monthly Round-Up Event.