Step 1

Take a dry bowl, add yeast, sugar and lukewarm water and stir it well.

Step 2

Cover the mixture and keep it in a dry place for about 15 min or till the yeast gets activated as shown in the pic below.

Step 3

Take a fresh bowl of a large size. Add all purpose flour and salt.

Step 4

Add the activated yeast to the flour and mix it well.

Step 5

Initially the dough will be sticky. Time to show your muscles.

Step 6

Take a little bit of butter/ Oil on your hands and knead the dough for about 7 to 10 minutes using pull and fold method. The dough will still be a little sticky, but will become very soft.

Step 7

Place the dough into a greased pan and cover it with a cling wrap or kitchen towel.

Step 8

Keep this pan in some warm place until the dough doubles in the volume.

Step 9

Once the dough doubles in volume take it out on a lightly dusted surface, dusted with flour, Punch it to release the air and knead it for another 5 minutes.

Step 10

You now need to shape the bread in a desired shape. You can visit my list of recipes to see various shapes of bread you can bake.

Step 11

Finally shape it in a desired shape, cover it with a clean wrap and keep it for the second rise.