Mar 23, 2009

Oatmeal Wheat Bread

This is a homemade healthy everyday bread. It is a basic recipe I found after researching and making changes to suit my own. It came out very well, soft and airy. I wanted to bake a bread as it was long since I baked one at home. I wanted to try something which I had never baked earlier. This recipe is a keeper. No doubt, it is healthy with the wheat flour and oatmeal.

Ingredients
Old-Fashioned oats - 1 cup
Whole Wheat flour - 2 cups
Bread flour/unbleached all-purpose flour - 1 cup
Buttermilk - 3/4 cup
Water - 1/4 cup
Butter - 3 tablespoons
Sugar - 3 tablespoons
Active Dry Yeast - 3 teaspoons
Oats - 2 teaspoons for topping
Directions

Take about 1/4 cup of lukewarm water and add the sugar and yeast and stir till they dissolve. The water should be lukewarm for the yeast to work best. It should not be too hot as it might kill the yeast! Set it aside until it gets frothy.
Cook the oats with water until creamy. It should be in a thick consistency and not soupy. Cool the mixture. To the oats mixture, add the buttermilk, butter, bread flour and whole wheat flour. Finally add the frothy yeast-sugar mixture.
Knead well to get an elastic dough. The dough should be smooth. Grease the surface with oil and place in a bowl covered with a towel. Allow the dough to rise for about one hour till doubled.
Punch down the dough and knead it slightly. Take care not to knead too much as it releases all the air in the pockets. Shape the dough into a loaf and transfer it to a greased loaf pan.
Make two or three slits on the top of the loaf for the air to escape. Brush with a little milk and sprinkle the oats on top.
Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degree F for about 40 minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Allow it to cool a bit and remove carefully from the loaf pan and cool in a wire rack.
Serve with warm butter!

This is my entry to JFI:Wheat
What's Cooking:Homemade Bread
Yeastspotting
Whole Grain (Eggless) Baking Event - Oats
Bread Mania
and EFM:Oats

39 comments:

  1. Bread looks yum.. healthy & delicious.

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  2. Looks fantastic, I love oat in my bakes and usually bake bread with oat and wheat, yours has turned out perfectly ! Will try the next time I bake bread :-)

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  3. The bread has risen perfectly! Adding whole wheat and oats make the bread nutritious. I feel like grabbing a piece of that bread right now.

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  4. Bread looks perfect and healthy Divya

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  5. Lovely click divya......good to alter anything to suit your taste.

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  6. that's a yummy bread.. fresh from the oven. wish i cud bake this. i am still not confident baking breads.

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  7. Bread has turned out good. Shall try for my next bake.

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  8. Bread is looking perfect..healthy post..

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  9. This one is simply gorgeous Divya! It is spongy!

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  10. Added to try list,really a healthy one

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  11. Wow..the bread looks so tempting Div..Oat&wheat bread sounds very healthy.I am still jittery when it comes to baking bread:-(

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  12. While reading the procedure I felt the taste , delicious! Your bread looks perfect. I have never made oats but now I want to get a pack.

    Thanks a lot for sharing this recipe.

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  13. Prefct bread with healthy stuff..nutritious bread indeed..

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  14. That smeared with jam and butter and 1 cup hot coffee...bliss!!

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  15. WOw wow that looks so fabulously delicious.

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  16. This looks really delicious. Oatmeal is a great addition/ingredient - it really is super healthy!

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  17. Bread looks very gorgeous .The bread with butter pic makes me to drool :)

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  18. Bread looks great, very soft. Nutritious too. I have been thinking about baking a bread for a long time but settle down with the store bought ones.

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  19. Hi lovely bread and great blog you have here. Just wanted to drop in a line and let you know of the “Baking Event –Calling all Foodies” hosted by me at the foodie site www.ifood.tv. You are invited to be part of this event that aims to unite bloggers to some great baking this month. The details are all here http://www.ifood.tv/blog/baking_event_calling_all_foodies

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  20. Yummm..I make my breads with Oats n Wheat flour too..:) But you added cooked oats..Any special reason for that???
    I loved that large loaf pan...looked a lot for it here,n finally had to settle with a small one..:(

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  21. Nice one Divya. I have been wanting to bake the oatmeal bread from a while and never did it so far.. Your pictures are too tempting.. I might do it soon.. !

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  22. That looks delicious and must be yum, buttered & warm.

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  23. There is a pleasing aroma while making bread at home... Would love a slice from yours!

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  24. Wow the bread has come out really well! Did you use good old atta for the whole wheat flour or something else?

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  25. The bread looks very tempting, especially with the butter on it. Oats and wheat, both are healthy combo.

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  26. wow....first time here you have got a nice blog....oatmeal bread looks yum....:D...nice one

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  27. Thanks for joining YeastSpotting with this delicious bread!

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  28. Nice loaf, I love that it is also so healthy.

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  29. Hi Divya,

    Excellent recipe. 5* for making a healthy bread. I will try it out.

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  30. This looks so soft and yummy! And its healthy too! Great work Divya.Looks fantastic.

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  31. first time to ur blog lovely bread divya..will try it & let u know....

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  32. Hi divya, I love your blog. Wanted to try this bread but quick questions, I am in india & do not get bread flour or old fashioned oats easily. Can I use quick cooking quaker oats and what to use instead of bread flour.

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  33. @ Anonymous, You can substitute the bread flour with maida and use quick cooking oats as well. Hope you enjoy the output :)

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