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quarta-feira, 14 de setembro de 2016

Home cooking - Carob bread with sunflower and flax seeds

Although carob down here in Portugal is often used for bread, mostly without mixing seeds in it, I´ve recreated a simple recipe, with the missing seeds which I´m really used from the german bread. So it´s more or less a mix of both ways to bake it.

Main ingredient here, is carob flour.

Carob is often used as an alternative to Cocoa, it contains less fat and more sugar (reason why I don´t add it to this recipe).

It has an excellent nutrition value, aside 80% Protein, it contains Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus, Potassium Manganese, Barium, Copper, Nickel and the vitamins A, B, B2, B3, and D.

Ingredients you will need:

500g wholemeal flour

20g de carob flour

1 spoon of olive oil

25g fermento de padeiro

A handfull of sunflower and flax seeds

rice milk

Two hands full of oat flakes

salt

And now quickly through the steps:

First of all the yeast needs to react in body temperature warm water, which should be the first thing you should do before starting with mixing the ingredients all together.

When you get during the process a really dry out consistence add rice milk in small portions into the dough.

When all the ingredients after you manually worked them into each other, gained a even consistency, just put a bit olive oil all around it, so that inside the recipient the dough can expand its size easily when the rising agent is acting.