Do you think that bread is too difficult to make so you have never even tried! Well, this is seriously the easiest and most delicious bread I have made so far and it is quick and easy to make too! You definitely don't have to have serious baking skills to create this tasty loaf!
~Vegan ~
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups Warm water
1 tbsp Traditional yeast
2 tbsp Pure maple syrup
3 1/4 cups Spelt flour plus 1/4 cup for kneading
3/4 cup Rolled oats plus 1 tbsp for sprinkling on top
1/2 cup Walnuts, chopped
1/2 tsp Sea salt
1 tsp Olive oil, for greasing loaf baking tin
In a medium bowl add warm water, maple syrup and yeast. Mix until just combined. Allow to sit for about 10-15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a separate large mixing bowl add spelt flour, rolled oats, chopped walnuts and salt and whisk to aerate flour and to combine evenly. Make a hole in the flour. Once a 1-2 cm foamy layer has formed on top of the mixture pour into hole and fold flour into liquid with a wooden spoon until dough forms. Use clean hands to knead dough, gradually add extra spelt flour if dough is too sticky and is sticking to your fingers. Make dough into a ball and using your fingers, lift the far side of the dough in a circular motion and press down with the heel of the same hand into dough. It should feel like you are pressing the dough into itself. Do not over knead! Stop kneading once dough has a soft texture and it can be formed into an oval shaped ball and is only very slightly sticky (it should not stick to the side of the mixing bowl). Lightly oil loaf tin with olive oil and place dough in tin. Cover tin with a clean dish towel and place somewhere warm for about 30-40 minutes or until dough has about doubled in size.
Pre heat oven to 425F. Place loaf tin in middle rack of oven and bake at 425 F for 23-25 minutes. Remove from oven if top of bread looks golden brown. Do not over bake!! Remove from oven and let cool in tin for about 5 minutes, then remove and place on cooling rack until completely cooled. Store in a bread tin for up to 4 days or in the fridge in a sealed container for about 7-10 days. Alternatively you can freeze part of the loaf in a zip lock bag or something similar for up to 4 weeks.
Bake at 425F for 23-25 minutes
Makes 1 loaf
Prep & Baking time:
Prep ~ 60 minutes
Baking ~ 25 minutes
Total time ~ 85 minutes
Love the Power of Food:
Walnuts
The walnut tree dates back to as far as 7000 BC and is one of the oldest tree foods known to man! This magical nut is considered food for the brain! It is high in healthy monounsaturated fats and arginine which is an important protein which effect our cardiovascular system. It is particularly rich in an antioxidant known as ellagic acid. This antioxidant has been show to help detoxify cancer-causing substances and protecting our cells from free-radical damage.
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