Garlic and paprika bread...

It had been a long time since I baked some bread, and since I was going to eat at my friends (Michelle) house I decided to make some. This time I made some Garlic and Paprika bread, I woke up earlier than normal to do it since it takes some time to prepare the dough and let it rise.

It took me a few hours to make this bread, but only like 2 of real work, while it was rising I decided to watch Doctor Who, but I really didn't like the series so much, I watched like 6 episodes, but in the end I decided to watch something else other time.

This is my third time making this bread, and I must say that it tasted awesome the first time, and this time it was much better and it took me less time to make it. I took half to Michelle's house and left the other half in my house, in both places they liked it, that really made me happy :).

Ok, so here is the recipe if anyone wants to make it

Ingredients:
(dough)
900g of flour (triple zero if you have access to it, I used all purpose flour since that is the only one I can get here, but it worked)
520ml of milk (or soy milk for my vegan friends :P)
60ml of water
15g of oil
20g of salt
40g of sugar
30 or 40 grams of fresh yeast

(topping)
1/2 cups of butter (or vegan butter)
2 tbsp of garlic powder
4 or 5 garlic cloves (or as much as you like)
paprika

Ok, so the process to this bread is easy, first of all get all the ingredients of the dough in a bowl big enough to hold more than 2 times the quantity of dough it is already holding, it will rise very much.
If you knead by machine it only needs 5 to 10 minutes (15 to 25 if done by hand), until the dough feels silky smooth and has a sticky consistency just enough to stick to your hand (a little) but not enough as to not be able to remove it from your hand.

Let it rise until it has doubled its size, and while this happens prepare the garlic by slicing it thin, then fry it until it looks caramelized (it should be done at low heat so the garlic won't burn and/or get bitter), also add your garlic powder to the butter (melted butter) and mix them. You should have 3 containers, one with the butter and garlic powder, another with the fried garlic and the last one with the paprika.

After this is done and the dough has raised you should make small buns with the dough (it is suggested to make them weight like 20 or 30 grams, but it is a pain to weight them, so just try to not make them too big, they will rise again), each bun should be passed through the butter, then garlic and finally the paprika. Then it should be placed in a loaf pan (which should have wax paper so the bread won't stick to the loaf pan), it doesn't matter if the buns do not cover all the areas in the loaf pan, they will do it after they rise. Also, after each layer of buns you can add some butter from the one you are using to give it a little more flavor. After all the buns are in place use the remaining butter in top of the buns.

After all the buns are placed in the loaf pan you should let it rise again (it is your choice to let it rise as much as you like, just bear in mind that if you let it rise too much it could fall from the pan, I let it rise like 1 1/2 hours, but that is your choice), after that you should make a support with some foil (so the bread won't fall while in the oven).

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius, when the oven is ready put the bread in and let it cook for about 40 minutes. After the time has passed you can get it out of the oven and let it cool for about an hour (or if you can't resist take some buns and let them cool apart). And that's it, it takes some time, but it is easy, and it goes well with many things (today I even ate some with cold coffee and it was awesome).