Whole Wheat Rye Yogurt Flax Bread Recipes

WHOLE WHEAT & RYE YOGURT FLAX BREAD

Steps:

• Mix whole wheat flour, rye flour, gluten flour & instant potato flakes in a bowl, set aside.
• In a mixer bowl, using flat beater, mix wet ingredients.
• Add yeast flax seeds & salt to liquid ingredients, mix thoroughly.
• Switch to dough hook, and slowly add flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time. Allow it to knead each amount of flour into ball before adding more. Once all flour is incorporated, all the dough to continue to knead until the dough is sooth and elastic.
• Place dough in greased bowl, turning to grease the top. Cover and let rise for 1 1/2 hours in a warm, draft free location.
• Prepare two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch pans by greasing lightly with butter or vegetable shortening.
• When timer goes off, punch down dough and divide into two balls.
• Shape each half into a loaf, and place in prepared pans.
• Cover with plastic wrap & a tea towel, and allow to rise in a warm, draft free area for 1 hour.
• Bake at 400 for 35-40 minutes. Bread will be cooked when it sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.
• Turn out of pan & allow to cool before slicing. Place leftovers in plastic bag for storage.

NORDIC WHOLE-GRAIN RYE BREAD

Steps:

• On Day 1, make the starter: In a medium-size bowl, mix 3/4 cup warm water with the buttermilk or yogurt. Whisk flour and yeast together, add to the buttermilk mixture and use your hands to mix together until sticky and moist; add more warm water as needed. Cover tightly and set aside at cool room temperature overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• Also on Day 1, soak the grains: Mix 4 cups cold water with the rye berries (or meal) and sunflower seeds. Cover and set aside at cool room temperature overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• On Day 2, make the bread: Drain the soaked grains in a colander. Measure 35 ounces/1,000 grams of the grains and place in a deep bowl. Add 14 ounces/400 grams of the starter and mix well. (Any remaining starter can be saved to use with other bread recipes.) Add the flour, salt, malt (or molasses), yeast and 2 cups water. Mix dough firmly by hand to combine. The dough should be grainy, but quite runny and wet, almost like a thick batter. To achieve that texture, add cold water, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. To test: When a walnut-size piece of dough smeared on the rim of the bowl slides slowly and smoothly down the inside, like a snail leaving a trail, the dough it is wet enough.
• Thickly butter 3 medium or 2 standard-size loaf pans. Divide the dough evenly among the pans, filling them about half full. Cover and let rise at room temperature until dough almost fills pans, about 2 hours. (Dough will not rise more during baking.)
• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Bake loaves for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 360 and bake until firm and glossy brown, 80 minutes to 2 hours more depending on size and moisture content of loaves. Let cool completely in the pans before turning out. Bread freezes well, and lasts for at least a week at room temperature, wrapped in paper.

BREAD MACHINE WHOLE WHEAT FLAX BREAD

Steps:

• Add ingredient to the bread machine pan in the order given.
• i select basic white bread setting, light crust and 1 1/2 lb loaf.

YOGURT WHEAT BREAD

Steps:

• Let yogurt stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the whole wheat flour, wheat germ, sugar, oil, salt and yogurt. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough bread flour to form a firm dough., Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a bowl coated with cooking spray, turning once to coat the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; shape into a loaf. Place in a 9x5-in. loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 40 minutes., Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool.

YOGURT WHOLE WHEAT BREAD

Steps:

• Add all the ingredients in the order given above making sure that you do not let the yeast touch any of the wet ingredients.
• My machine beeps part way through the process and I added the caraway seed and the no-salt seasoning at that time.
• When the bread is done, using oven mitts, remove the tray from the bread machine and shake the loaf out onto a cooling rack.
• Cool completely before slicing and slather with some Earth Balance vegan margarine, so yummy.
• Bon Appetit!