Oatmeal and herb bread

oatmeal & herb bread

Healthy herb bread made with a mixture of wheat and refined flour, oatmeal and olive, cooking time 40-45 minutes, serving for 4.

Ingredients

Oatmeal	1/4 cup
Refined flour (maida)	2 1/2 cups
Whole wheat flour (atta)	1 1/2 cups
Fresh yeast	13 grams
Sugar	1 tablespoon
Salt	1 1/2 teaspoons
Garlic crushed	2-3 cloves
Oil	2 tablespoons
Spring onions with greens chopped	2
Parsley chopped	2 tablespoons
Black peppercorns crushed	3-4
Black olives sliced	3-4 Bottom of Form

Method

Place the refined flour and whole wheat flour in a bowl and mix. Add salt to the flours and mix. Add garlic and mix.

Dissolve yeast in little water.

yeast dissolve

Make a well in the centre of the mixture and pour the yeast solution in it. Then cover with the flours and mix gently.

Add sufficient water and knead well into soft dough. Mix in a little oil and cover the dough with a damp cloth. Set aside to ferment (prove) until it doubles in volume.

Now add spring onions, parsley, black peppercorns and knock back the dough mixing the ingredients well into it. Set aside to rise for about 15-20 minutes.

add herbs 

Grease your hands and shape the dough into a rectangle and keep it in the rectangle bread mould. The mould should be only half filled with the dough.

Now sprinkle oatmeal on the surface and top it up with olive slices. Keep aside the mould till the dough rises once again and reaches the top of the mould.

add oatmeal and olive

Preheat the oven to 220 degree centigrade and bake for about forty five minutes or till the bread is completely cooked.

Leave it on a wire rack to cool in room temperature. Bread is ready so slice and serve.