Healthy Whole Wheat Bread

My kids mid term exams were over last week and I felt like last day of my school before summer vacation!!!
I thought of some baking to do as I had a list of TO DO items pending to bake and selected whole wheat bread. My daughter is very fond of toast - cheese toast, peanut butter toast, vegetable sandwich anything in between two toasted bread slices is her favorite. And her dad is totally against store bought bread, fed to the kid day after day after day after .....

So, settled with the brown bread happily and baked up a nice golden crust bread- which looked lovely and healthy.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 3 cups
• Water - 1 cup
• salt - 1 teaspoon
• sugar - 2 tablespoons +  1 tablespoon
• Dry active yeast - 1/2 tablespoon
• Curds - 2 tablespoon
• Butter - 2 tablespoons

Procedure:

• Activate the yeast by dissolving it in 1 cup lukewarm water and 1 tablespoon sugar.
• Keep it for around 10 minutes.
• The yeast is ready to use when slight foam forms on the surface.
• Add the salt to the flour and mix it well or sieve it.
• Then add sugar, butter,curd and the dissolved yeast mixture.
• Knead it to a dough.Add water if required little by little , one tablespoon at a time.
• Continue to knee it till a smooth dough is formed.
• Cover it with a wet cloth and let it rise in a warm place for an hour.
• The dough should be doubled in size. Take the dough after this and slowly deflate it and roll it over to form a loaf and keep it in a loaf pan.
• Let it rise again in the loaf pan for 30 minutes.
• Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees C(425 degree F).
• After half hour, bake it in the oven for around 20 to 25 minutes.
• Let it cool completely and cut into slices and store in the bread box.
• Keeps well for 3 to 4 days at room temperature.
• It is best to toast it with slight butter and eat it with jam/maple syrup or honey or just the plain toast with tea/coffee.