Herbed Oatmeal-Almond, Multi-Grain Bread
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Everything but the kitchen sink, it seems, can go in this bread (as long as it is) good for you. It's my adaptation and a cross between a multi-grain recipe that I am from in my first cookbook, The Final Cut (now out of print) and a 7 – grain recipe in my bread machine manual.
I was looking for something healthy, full of fiber and delicious. I wanted the bread with a fine, homogeneous, spongy texture (not dry or crumbly) that would do double duty:It had a vegetarian sandwich to hold together and maintain their integrity, when in one of my favorite soups (beef barley emerged, Wild Rice and Turkey). Oh yes, she also had a good toast.
Note: I'm not a big fan of the crust and cut it often completely off. With this bread I can do, you have a nice clean edge, and the disc still holds together well.
You can find them on our kitchen counter every day of the week. Here is the recipe to make it in your bread machine:
HerbsOatmeal-Almond, multi-grain bread
Paddle in a position all the ingredients in bread pan of your machine in the order given and bake as needed for your particular bread machine model. They are all very similar, and this recipe as well as in your computer work like it in me.
1-1/2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil (or a good, cold-pressed, omega-3 oil)
1 tablespoon molasses (or honey)
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
1 cupOatmeal (5-minute oatmeal is okay, but not instant)
1 / 3 cup almond meal / flour (This ingredient is expensive. Sometimes I swap it with a handful of chopped nuts, sunflower seeds.)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 / 3 CUP Vital Wheat Gluten
1 / 3 cup rye flour
1 / 3 cup buckwheat flour
1 / 3 cup flaxseed
1 / 3 cup cornmeal
1 / 3 cup wheat germ (or bran flakes)
1 teaspoon powdered bay leaves (or rosemary, bay would be hard to find, can I believeown)
1 tablespoon dry yeast (including modified to create a depression in the middle of the dry ingredients for yeast)
This is my favorite series of proportions, but do not worry if you do not have every ingredient. You can use more flour instead of some other things, or more of one ingredient and not others. It is important to keep only is true, the balance between wet and dry ingredients. You need a total of 4-1/3 cups of flour and corn meal for the 1-1/2 cupsWater.
Other flours and cereal options spelled or brown rice flour. Other ingredients: dill, curry, cumin.
163 calories per serving, when bread is cut into 12 slices. Contains 4.5 g fiber.