Carrot-sesame seed bread
The recipe Carrot-sesame seed bread can be made in roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Servings: 8
- Total cooking time:
Ingredients:
- 1 packet active dry yeast, 7 gm
- 2.5 cups all purpose flour
- 1.5 cups shredded carrots, about 3 whole carrots
- 1.5 tbsp olive oil
- 8 tbsp orange juice
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup sesame seeds plus more for garnishing
- 1 cup spelt or whole wheat flour ( I used spelt flour)
- 10 tbsp warm water
Instructions:
- In a bowl, add carrots, orange juice, warm water and yeast and let it sit for 5 minutes. To it add olive oil, both flours and salt. Knead it into a tight dough. Cover and let it sit for 10 mins.Put oil on the working surface and knead dough lightly for about 10 secs.
- Let it sit covered for an hour. Clean oil from working surface and sprinkle some flour. Knead the dough for few seconds.
- Roll it tightly and tuck both the ends at the bottom and lay it in a parchment paper lined loaf pan with sides tucked on the bottom.Cover and let it sit for another hour.Preheat oven to 400F.
- Bake uncovered for 50 mins.Take it out of the pan once cooled and let it cool further. Store covered for upto 3-4 days.
