Healthy Bread Recipes Are Not Easy Bread Recipes if Learning How to Bake Bread

Healthy bread recipes have been my kitchen goal over the past couple of weeks. As I have said many times before I am not a medical expert. Like many of you, I have a general idea to what is healthy for me and what is not. I have been experimenting with many bread recipes trying to combine health with flavor and texture. My goal has been not to have any white flour or sugar in my bread. This is not an easy task considering the gluten in the white flour helps to hold the bread together when you slice it.

Over the past couple of weeks I have made many of what I thought were healthy bread recipes. Like I said not having sugar or white flour in the bread recipe, I wanted it to taste good and hold together when I sliced it. I tried different grains individually in recipes but I really favor multigrain bread recipes. My recipes have turned out anywhere from dry, crumbly, flavorless and soggy. Then the quality started to improve. I had hope!

I finally was very happy with my recipe. It tasted good right out of the oven. Unlike the other recipes, it tasted even better when cold. At first I tried slicing it very thinly which did not work so well because it wanted to fall apart. When I sliced it a little thicker (normal bread slices) it stayed together. My recipe is one of the easy bread recipes because it is batter bread. This means that this has no kneading dough.

SEE MY BREAD MAKING DEMONSTRATION

BATTER BREAD

• 1 ½ Cups spelt flour


• 1 Cup whole wheat flour


• 1 Cup oat flour


• ¼ Cup old fashioned rolled oats (can use quick oats)


• 1 Tablespoon wheat berries


• 1 Tablespoon amaranth


• 1 Tablespoon poppy seeds


• 1 Tablespoon caraway seeds


• 1 Teaspoon sea salt


• 2 Teaspoons roasted garlic granules


• 1 Tablespoon dill seed


• ¼ Cup olive oil


• 2 Beaten eggs


• ¼ Cup lukewarm water


• 2 Tablespoons honey


• 1 Package dry yeast


• 2 Cups lukewarm organic yogurt


• Sesame seeds

Grease loaf pan with solid shortening and flour lightly with spelt flour; Shake off excess.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours, oats, wheat berries, amaranth, poppy seeds, caraway seeds, dill seed, garlic and sea salt; Stir to blend. Add the olive oil and beaten eggs. Let set.

Put honey in a small bowl and add warm water. Sprinkle package of yeast over water mixture and let set 5 minutes to foam. While yeast is foaming, heat yogurt to lukewarm and dump in the flour mixture. Add the yeast mixture and beat to mix. NOTE: If you have bread beater on your mixer you can use it at medium speed. If not beat with a large spoon by hand until well mixed.

Preheat oven at 325F degrees.

Dump bread batter into loaf pan and let set at room temperature to rise (about 1 hour)

Bake for about 1 hour and 50 minutes. Test with pick for doneness.

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