Art of Diet

Healthy Motherdough Wholemeal Bread

Following a healthy diet you want to avoid or definitely reduce eating processed foods, because they contain preservatives, homogenisers and food colourings.

Our daily bread is not exemption. I bake my own bread ones or twice a week. My family love it. The sunflower seeds are optional they make it more rustic  and to great extent they  enhance  the omega 3 fatty acids level of the bread. 

 Ingredients for the quick sourdough-- it needs about 14-16 hours to get fermented for the bread--.

Self rising flour	250g
Yeast	2 tsp
Water	200ml

·      Mix the ingredients and leave it at room temperature for a night

 Ingredients for the bread

Wholemeal flour	500g
Yeast	4tsp
Olive oil processed	3 tbsp
Salt	1 tsp
Water	200-300ml
Sunflower seed	Handful

·      Place the ingredients and the sourdough prepared previously into a medium size bowl.

·      Mix the ingredients into homogenous elastic dough using your hand or a mixer, if it needs more water add it slowly. (max 300ml)

·      Leave the dough to rise for 40 minutes.

·      Mix the dough again with your hand and transfer it into a buttered medium size casserole dish. Place the top on and leave it for 1 hour at room temperature.

·      Preheat the oven to 230⁰C.

·      Bake the bread for 45 minutes.

·      Bake it further 5-8 minutes without the top on.

·      Place the hot bread on a wooden board and sprinkle it with a little water

·      Leave it to cool.