welcome i'm deronda with foods 101 today i'm going to show you how to make a lemon poppy seed bread
it's a quick bread simple and easy to make yet i think you're absolutely gonna love it so let's
get started the ingredients you're gonna need is one and three four cups of all-purpose flour
three four cups of granulated sugar one-half teaspoon of salt one fresh lemon we're going
to use the zest in our bread batter and we're going to use the lemon juice for the glaze
two large eggs one half cup of canola oil or you may substitute this with vegetable oil one
teaspoon of pure vanilla extract one tablespoon of poppy seeds 1 and 1 4 teaspoons of baking powder
1 cup of lemon yogurt if you want to substitute this for sour cream you may for the glaze you're
going to need 1 3 cup of powdered sugar and fresh lemon juice to get the consistency
on the glaze that you're looking for let me show you how simple and easy this is to get together
in a large bowl we're going to add all flour the granulated sugar the salt the baking powder and
all our poppy seeds oh and look how pretty those are with the whisk we're going to incorporate
these ingredients until they're well blended now we can sit this off to the side in a smaller bowl
i'm adding our two eggs the vanilla the oil and our lemon yogurt or if you're substituting
sour cream for this you may and if you'd like to just use a vanilla yogurt you may with a whisk
let's get it all off our spatula we're going to incorporate these ingredients until they're well
blended and break up those egg yolks it's nice and well incorporated now for the
lemon you want to make sure that your lemon is rinsed very well and with a microplane
i'm going to zest our lemon here on some parchment paper it makes it a lot easier to clean up and we
want to make sure that we just get the yellow part of our lemon make sure you don't get down
into the white because that's where it's better and we're looking for about one teaspoon to add
into our wet ingredients and about one medium lemon we'll give you that as you can see that's
our one teaspoon if we squish it down in there add it to your wet ingredients and blend it well
until you can no longer see it and it's not lumped up into a ball all right that looks
great we can sit this off to the side back with our dry ingredients we're going to incorporate
our wet ingredients make sure you get it all out of your bowl and at this point
you want your oven preheated to 350 degrees fahrenheit gradually bring your dry ingredients
in with your wet ingredients and we're going to stir this until you can no longer see the flour
you don't want to over mix your lemon poppy seed bread batter very very important
okay it's getting there this is kind of a technique
but just take your time when incorporating the flour in with your wet ingredients
and that looks absolutely perfect now to bake our lemon poppy seed bread i've lightly greased
and floured a 9 inch by 5 inch baking loaf or if you'd like to use a baking loaf slightly smaller
or larger that will do we're going to spoon our bread in to our baking loaf
until you get it all in there okay that's it and we're gonna work our batter
down into the bottom until we get a lovely little even layer here on our bread you may want to scoop
some over into the corner if needed this is off to that 350 degree preheated oven on the middle rack
for the next 55 to 65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean use your timer and no
peeking time to check on our bread it's been 60 minutes and we're gonna check with the toothpick
to see if we need to bake it any longer insert it into the thickest part pull it out no batter
on that toothpick so we can take this bread out of the oven put it over here on a cooling rack
and let your bread cool for about five minutes before removing it from its baking loaf folding
in color and look at those poppy seeds right there showing through on the top layer oh my gosh this
is going to be fantastic just the way we want it after five minutes of cooling and since i've used
a porcelain pan it's still a little warm so i'm going to use my hot pad here i use these plastic
knives just to loosen my bread up around the edge but it looks like it's already loosened but just
for a little security this will help it along and then we're going to give it a little jiggle and
you can kind of hear how the bottom has loosened up and we're just going to flip it out should come
right out look how beautiful that is it's warm but we can still handle it with a cooling rack
we're just gonna let our bread rest here for about 15 minutes while i show you how to make
the glaze back with that lemon we zested we're going to cut it in half oh and it smells so yummy
look at that beautiful vibrant color i'm going to remove that little seed there
and i've got a little juicer here if you don't have a juicer you can go ahead and
just move it around with the fork and squeeze your juice out the sieve it's really best
for us to strain the lemon juice so we won't get seed you see those seeds you definitely don't want
those in your glaze back with our powdered sugar we're going to add about a tablespoon
of our fresh lemon juice into the powdered sugar and we're going to begin whisking it around if you
don't have a whisk go ahead and use a fork this turned out beautiful and look at the consistency
there on our lemon glaze yep now back with that bread loaf while it's still warm i'm gonna place
it over a cookie sheet with a spoon i'm going to begin to drizzle our glaze on the top of
our bread and let it slowly just run down the side of your bread oh it's gonna be so
fantastic we're gonna let this cool down for about one hour and then i'll cut into it and tell you
what it tastes like and that smells and looks so yummy gonna cut into this poppy seed bread
we'll do a cut right here and i'm using a serrated knife a serrated knife have these little teeth on
the edges that really help you cut into your bread nicely and lookie there with those poppy seeds
it smells so fantastic let's cut off a little piece and give it a try
and see that glaze has really set up on the bread very nicely still super duper warm
there's the glaze here we go look how moist that is springs right back mm-hmm wow tastes like a
warm cake donut with lemon and those poppy seeds absolutely fantastic nice moist a delicious quick
bread you will not be disappointed with this lemon poppy seed quick bread i'm deronda with foods 101
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