Botswana Homemade Bread - A Taste of Botswana Food

Here is a recipe that I use almost every week to make homemade bread. Try it at home, and take photo's, and lastly comment below and let me know how it went. Diphaphata (Dee-pa-pat-ta) is very popular in Botswana because it tastes great. Happy cooking :D

-Finda

Diphaphata - Botswana Homemade Bread   

Diphaphata is a great tasting bread that be eaten as hamburger bread to dinner roles. There are many creative ways to use this bread. Additionally, extra ingredients can be added to give Diphaphata a different taste, look, etc.

Ingredients:

4 cups of white or brown flour

10g or 1 pack of yeast

Salt

Sugar

1.5 cups of warm water

Directions:

1.       Add flour, yeast, salt and/or sugar in a mixing bowl.

a.       Note: Add enough salt and sugar to your personal preference

2.       Add warm water to your mixing bowl and mix ingredients into a dough

3.       Continue to add warm water until the dough is soft and without any bumps

4.       Let dough sit for 10 to 15 minutes in order to allow the yeast to raise the dough

5.       Separate dough into 8 to 12 round balls

6.       Pre-heat oven to 250 degrees

7.       Lightly grease your baking pan and place dough balls onto the pan

8.       Bake the dough for 10 to 15 minutes or until the dough is lightly golden brown

9.       Serve with butter, jelly, tea or by itself