Seeds at their best...homemade superfood seed bread

Remember...? St. Patrick’s Day post included some croutons where I used my homemade chia bread.

Yeah…I got a lot of request for the recipe!

So…this is for you!

Today we’re baking homemade superfood seed bread. It’s great for breakfast because it keeps you full for a long time and you won’t get food cravings shortly after breakfast.

Moreover organic wholewheat bread and all the other ones can be quite expensive when you buy it at the grocery store. So…make it at home! It’s cheaper, it doesn’t contain additives and you know exactly where your ingredients came from.

My bread contents several different seeds which deserve the name “superfood”:

• Chia seeds: 10g of fiber and almost 5g of protein in just two tablespoons! And that’s not all yet…the seeds absorb up to 10 times their weight of water. That’s what I call “superfood”.
• Flax seeds: One ounce of this seeds contains 8g of fiber, 12 g of healthy fatty acids and a huge amount of magnesium. I love flax seeds because they enhance the taste of granola, salads and bread (duh!).
• Sunflower seeds: This tiny seeds not only taste amazing they’re also a great source for vitamin E, copper and polyunsaturated fatty acids. I always roast them to make them even more crunchy and sprinkle them over almost all my food. 

 (Fun fact: I always nibble off all the sunflower seeds if they’re sprinkled on bread! It’s a mess! :P Comment down below if your doing the same!)
 

 So now…after this paragraph of educational information….time to head into the kitchen and fire up the oven.

Here are the directions:

Place about 500g of wholwheat flour in a big bowl. Add in a pinch of salt, one pack of dry yeast, half a cup of flax seeds, half a cup of sunflower seeds and half a cup of chia seeds. Stir until all the dry ingredients are well blended. 

Heat up the milk until it’s lukewarm. Add two eggs and one tablespoon of honey to the flour mix and pour over the milk. Then knead all together until it comes together to a ball.

Cover it and let it sit in a warm place for about one hour. It should double in size. (I always take a pot with hot water and place my bowl above and cover it with a kitchen towel. The warm and humid steam will do great work.)

Carefully remove the dough from the bowl and place it in a greased loaf pan. Let it sit for another hour.

Now it’s time to actually bake the bread! ;)

Bake it for 50 minutes at 150°-180°C [300-350F]. When your bread loaf is golden brown it time to heat up a little. Bake it for another 20 minutes at 200°C [390F]. This will make the crust extra crunchy. And at the end turn off the heat and you let your bread sit for another 20 minutes in the warm oven.

Remove your homemade bread from the loaf pan and let it chill a bit.

Done! You successfully baked your own superfood seed bread! :D

 

Here are the ingredients summed up:

I hope I inspired all of you to do more meals and food on your own instead of buying it at the grocery store.

Enjoy and please send me pics. I’d love to see your sandwiches!

xo

Andrea