spelt bread

In your belly within the hour!

When you need bread in a hurry, this is the recipe for you!
There’s no yeast, no waiting for the dough to rise, no kneading and no need to live without bread because the supermarket has run out of yeast again. We’ve all been there.

All you need are a few simple ingredients. This yeast free spelt bread is so easy to make, because you just have to stir a few ingredients together and shape the dough into a loaf. I’ve used Spelt flour but you can easily swap it out for all purpose flour, see notes below.

Prep time : 15 min
Cooking time : 50-55 min
Makes : 1 loaf

Oven: 350F/180C

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tbsp./10 gr. Psyllium husk powder*
• 1 cup/ 250 ml. water
• 1 cup /250 ml. milk
• 1 tbsp./15 ml. honey
• 1 tbsp. /15 ml. neutral oil or melted butter
• 2 tsp./10ml. plain Vinegar
• 1 cup/115gr. whole grain Spelt flour**
• 3 cups/360gr. plain white Spelt flour**
• 4 tsp./ 12 gr. baking powder
• ½ tsp./ 3 gr. baking soda
• 1 ½ tsp./ 9 gr. Salt

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Pre heat oven to 350F/180C.

First you mix the one cup of water with the Psyllium husk powder in a bowl and let it sit for 10 minutes until a jelly forms.
2. In a measuring jug, add the one cup of milk and warm in the microwave for 30-45 seconds until warm to the touch. Add the butter and honey and stir to dissolve. Mix this with the Psyllium/water mix in the bowl. Stir to combine and add the vinegar.
3. In a large bowl add the whole grain flour, the plain flour, the salt, baking powder and baking soda, stir with a whisk to combine well.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon until combined and continue with your hands, start shaping a loaf in the bowl. Wet your hands with water because the dough will be quite sticky. Add a little extra flour if the dough seems too wet.
5. Transfer the loaf to the lined baking tin and make a few cuts in the loaf with a sharp knife. Place in the oven and bake for 50 to 55 minutes until golden on top. And when tapped with your fingers, it will sound hollow. Alternatively you may insert a wooden skewer, it should come out dry.
6. Remove from the oven once fully baked and let it cool completely before cutting.
7. This bread will keep well wrapped or in a Tupperware for several days. You can also freeze this loaf.

Enjoy!

*Psyllium husk really improves the texture of the loaf, it gives a golden crunchy crust, bouncy soft texture and it helps rise the dough.
** You can use regular flour if you prefer, but use a little less, about 3 ½ cups total flour to begin with, you can always add a little more.

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Here is my go to bread, for daily use. Very high in fibre and super healthy. It’s a small compact loaf, but one slice is an equivalent to a normal sized slice of bread, only ten times healthier. Pure grains and goodness and very filling.

Makes 1 small loaf

Needed : 8 Inch x 4 Inch Loaf Pan

INGREDIENTS:

1 C. + 2 tbsp. milk of choice, warm about at 100 ° F
2 tsp. Yeast
1 tbsp. Organic Coconut Sugar
2 C. Dark Rye Flour
1 C. Plain Spelt Flour
1/4 C. Oat Fiber
1/4 C. Ground Flaxseed
1 tsp. Pink Himalayan Salt
2 tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 C. Cooked Rye or Organic Spelt Berries

INSTRUCTIONS:

In a bowl, mix the warm milk with the sugar, add the yeast and stir to dissolve. Let sit for 5 to 10 minutes until frothy. Add the olive oil.

In the bowl of your mixer fitted with the hook attachment, place the flours, the fibre and flax. Stir to mix a little.

When the yeast mixture is ready pour is slowly into the bowl with the flour. With the machine running on low. Once the yeast liquid is mixed in add the salt.

Knead for ten minutes on medium. The last minute add the whole cooked grains and mix in gently with the machine on low.

Turn out the dough, Knead a little and form in to a ball. Place in an oiled bowl and cover with oiled cling film. Let rise for at least two hours. Although is doesn’t rise much leave for this amount of time.

After this time, place the dough into the oiled baking tin, sprinkle over some oat fibre if you like. Cover loosely with oiled cling film and leave to rise again for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile pre heat the oven to 375 ° F / 190 C

Place the tin in the middle of the oven on a rack, bake for about 40 minutes. Tap to see if it sounds hollow after this time. Remove from oven and leave to cool completely before slicing.