Showing posts with label bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bread. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Homemade Oatmeal Honey Whole Wheat Bread

Hello, readers!

Today is leftover day - I had leftover Butter Chicken (which I mixed with some leftover Brussels sprouts... it worked!) for lunch. I forgot to mention yesterday that in the last 5 minutes of cooking the butter chicken I added in about half pound of baby organic spinach (from Costco... once again, I love Costco)!

Tonight we're probably going to be having some form of the "Dagwood" sandwich again. However, we're out of bread. I was about to stop by the store then I realized I'm being a lazy butt and I need to get to making bread again. :)

This readers, is my friend, the Zojirushi Home Bakery Supreme!


My awesome Uncle got me this for Christmas last year. I picked it out from reviews on Amazon.com. I have not been disappointed!... well actually, I was kind of disappointed with the dull recipes that came with the instruction guide (except that you can apparently make meatloaf in it... can't say I've tried that). For example: the "whole wheat" bread recipe they included only contained a bit of whole wheat and called for dried milk powder. Not exactly what I wanted. So anyway I went out searching for some of my own :)

My recipe is adapted from the one I found here:

Homemade Oatmeal Honey Whole Wheat Bread

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup water, boiling
  • 2 tablespoons butter (I use olive oil)
  • sprinkling of salt
  • 1/4 cup honey or Agave nectar (a low glycemic sweetener - get it at a natural health food store - or COSTCO!)
  • 1/2 cup oats, old-fashioned
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • 3 cups whole wheat flour (I like King Arthur flour)
  • 2 teaspoons yeast, sprinkled over flour

Preparation:

Put oats in the bread pan; pour boiling water over the oats. When oats have cooled but are still a bit warm, add remaining ingredients according to bread machine manufacturer's manual. For my bread machine, I add in everything but the flour and salt. Layer the flour on top of the other ingredients; then make a "well" to put the yeast in. Bake on light crust "quick" setting.

My bread is baking right now and smelling delicious :)