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Potato bread with walnuts

Home made bread is simply the best.

Preparation time 20 minutes .. Rising 30 + 3 x 20 minutes .. Baking 60 minutes

INGREDIENTS .. 1 loaf

  • 500 g bread flour or 50/50 mix of bread and durum wheat flour
  • 1 1 medium boiled and mashed potato
  • 1/2 tsp kumin
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 block of fresh yeast
  • 250 ml luke warm water
  • 2 tsp salt
  • handful of coarsely chopped walnuts
  • 1 tbsp barley malt syrup or honey (optional)

PREPARATION

First, make a sourdough : mix ½ cup lukewarm water with ½ tsp sugar and add ½ crumbled cube of fresh yeast. Let rise 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile sieve the flour into a bowl, add the yeast and all remaining ingredients and make a soft, smooth dough. Leave the dough in a warm place to rise for about 30 minutes.

Knead the dough after the rise in a floured surface, roll it and fold like the puff. Now let him rise under a towel for 20 minutes. Repeat the rolling and folding 3 times. Make the dee eventually a ball and place in a buttered mold. Let it rise for 15 minutes, brush it with a brush with water, puncture or cut it from the top and bake for about 1 hour at 200°C (convection ovens -20°C) till red. Allow the bread to cool after baking on the roster.

Once cooled you can cut it and put into deep freezer.

Barley malt syrup
It is actually a food supplement as the honey, but then made ​​from barley. It is 3 times cheaper than honey, and it need not be in the bread. But if you add it, you have a nutritious, darker and definitely tastier bread. If you do not have it, it does not matter – just use 1 tbsp of honey. What we do everything for our loved ones.

Potato makes the bread softer, tastier and long-term storable.


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