healthy bread recipies

littlesurfer

i´m looking for a really basic bread recipe. Im travelling in a country where the diet is beyond me and i can´t eat anymore sweet white bread or pastry!!!

I need wholemeal and it doesn´t seem to exist here.

If anyone has a recipe that i could use to bake for myself!! Preferably one with fairly basic ingredients that i can get in the supermarket...and one that doesn´t take too much time!!!! I need a bit of healthy grub!

Mr E

Here is my mother's recipe (it makes 2 loafs). I make at least one batch every week. You can cut them in half and freeze them to last the week.

Dry Ingredients (put in a bowl and mix):

1lb Wholemeal Flour (Stone Ground)
2 tablesp muesli (*)
2 tablesp porridge oatmeal (**)
1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
1 pinch sugar
2 desert spoons brown sugar (demerera)
2 tablesp sunflower seeds (***)
2 tablesp pumpkin seeds (***)

Add wet ingredients and mix well:

1 egg (beaten)
1 tablesp treacle
1 tablesp sunflower oil
About 3 quarters of a litre of buttermilk (****)

Mixture should be pretty wet when finished (but not runny).

Grease 2 loaf tins (rectangular) with some sunflower oil. Divide mixture across both loaf tins. Add garnish if you want - some pumpkin seeds, or pecan nuts, or my latest discovery - Poppy Seeds (add generously).

Cook at 185 for 40 minutes (fan assisted oven).

Tastes delicious... you'll never go back to processed bread again.

Notes/Suggestions:

(*) I pick out the whole nuts and dried fruit, but thats personal preference.
(**) Replace with 2 tablesp of Pinhead Oatmeal for a different texture.
(***) Dunnes Stores have containers of mixed seeds that I'm using now instead of these (the mixed seeds are sunflower, pumpkin, linseed, poppy and sesame seeds - beware if allergic). Use 4 tablesp of these seeds instead of 2 each of pumpkin/sunflower.
(****) Not an exact measure, might need a little bit more if you're finding it hard to mix.

EileenG

2 cups whole meal flour
1 cup butter milk
1/2 tps baking soda (bicarb, not baking powder)
1/2 tsp salt.

Mix all ingredients to a soft dough. Turn out onto a floured surface, and shape with your hands so it will fit in a small floured bread tin.

Bake for around 20 minutes at gas 6. It's done when it sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.