New Recipe Alert! Sunflower Whole Wheat Bread
It has taken a while for me to tweak out
a whole wheat bread recipe that is not too dense and bakes and
slices really well. I'm happy to report I have finally done it!
This is some of the best bread I have ever made. The sunflower
seeds remind me of the old school Arnold's Health Nut bread, before
they went and changed the recipe. Hope you like
it!
Ingredients
1 packet of active dry
yeast
2T warm
water
1c milk (I used
skim)
1/4 c vegetable
oil
1/4 c
honey
1/3 c
water
3 1/2 c whole wheat flour (I used King
Arthur)
1 1/4 t
salt
1/2 c unsalted sunflower
seeds
Instructions
Dissolve dry yeast into 2 tablespoons of
warm water and set aside. In a stand mixer with dough hook
attachment, add all remaining ingredients except sunflower seeds.
Begin to mix and add yeast mixture. Kneed in mixer for 6 min.
Transfer dough onto lightly floured surface and sprinkle sunflower
seeds on dough and/or surface. Kneed sunflower seeds into dough.
Transfer to a lightly greased loaf pan and let rise for 1 hour. I
put mine in the oven with the oven light on. After 1 hour, punch
dough down and let it rise for another hour or so until the dough
has double in size and nicely fills the loaf pan. Bake at 350 for
40 min. Cool, slice and enjoy!