This isn’t Halloween, but it is spring time and we are ready to open ourselves up for more fruity and alternative recipes. For your enjoyment today’s recipe is a whole wheat bread spiced up with some pumpkin seeds. These seeds are delicious on their own, so you can imagine what kind of delicious range of tastes would they bring if they are to be put inside a whole wheat bread. Breadilicious! Here is a sample picture shown below, and the recipe as it follows.
Ingredients
- 250 g whole wheat flour
- 250g rye flour
- 25 g yeast
- 1, 5 dl milk
- Lukewarm water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 100 g butter
- 2 tablespoons pumpkin seed oil
- 1 egg yolk
- Pinch of ground anise and cardamom
- 150 g pumpkin seed
- Pumpkin seeds for sprinkling
Preparation:
Step 1: Dissolve the fresh yeast in lukewarm milk and add a little flour; leave the mixture on warm place.
Step 2: In a bowl stir the two types of flour, add the prepared yeast, pumpkin seeds oil, oil, egg, salt, cardamom, anise and lukewarm water.
Step 3: Knead dough, cover it and leave it to rest for about 30 minutes.
Step 4: Preheat the oven to 200°C. In the risen dough add the pumpkin seeds and re-knead the dough. Place the dough in rectangular mold covered with baking paper.
Step 5: Sprinkle pumpkin seeds over the surface of the bread. Leave the dough for another 20 minutes.
Step 6: Bake the bread in preheated oven for about 45 minutes. Remove the baked bread from the mold when is completely cooled.
Leave the bread aside for another 2 hours before serving.
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