Healthy Whole Wheat Bread

For the longest time I meant to make bread at home and post the recipe in my blog. At last I got around to getting hold of a loaf pan!

Below is the recipe for while wheat bread. Why spend $7 on a loaf of bread while you can make some real smooth, healthy bread at home? I hope you like this recipe. Its really easy, do try it out at home. This recipe is for simple whole wheat bread; I will post 9-grain/cranberry and other flavors in time.

Ingredients: (yields 1 loaf)

Whole Wheat Flour: 4 cups

Warm water: 1 cup

Oil: ¼ cup (I used vegetable oil)

Honey: ¼ cup

Milk: 1/3 cup

Dry yeast: 1 packet (you know those small ones)

Salt: 1 ¼ tsp

Method:

• Take a large bowl and mix all the ingredients with the exception of flour, well.
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• Add the flour and mix well making sure that there are no lumps; A little softer than roti/naan bread consistency. Make a cylindrical shape out of this.
• Grease a loaf pan and gently insert the dough into this pan.
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• Cover this pan with a wet towel and let it stand for 1 hour or until the dough raises.
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• Pre heat the oven to 350 D F. Sprinkle some flour on top of this dough.
• Bake this for 50-55 minutes.
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Healthy whole wheat bread is ready!

Note:

1. Make sure that you really mix the dough well. I used both my hands for this and it took some 10 minutes to achieve this.
2. To test the done-ness of this bread, lightly thump the bottom of the loaf pan after you remove from the over, it should sound hollow.