Whole wheat and sorgum bread with black sesame seeds and sunflower seeds

Bread baking is the new found love and currently experimenting on millets. Its jowar again !! Let me pamper jowar enough before I handle the next millet flour.

Bread baking is therapeutic and the aroma is sensational, if you know what I mean :) Start baking your healthy breads right at home. 

Ingredients

Water – 1 cup

Yeast – 1.5 tsp

Sugar – 2 tsp

Salt – 1 tsp

Whole wheat flour – 1 .5 cup

Jowar flour (sorghum flour) 1 cup

Sesame seeds – 2- 3 tsp

Sunflower seeds (crushed) – 2-3 tsp

Olive oil – 2-3 tbsp.

Method

• Microwave the water in a heat proof glass bowl at high for one minute ( this is for one cup of water )
• Sprinkle the yeast and sugar and stir well.
• After 15 mins you will see a frothy yeast mixture (else repeat this step).
• At this stage keep a sieve over the bowl and sift in one cup of whole wheat flour and one cup of sorghum flour and salt into the dough.
• Use the dough hook attachment of your egg beater and knead the dough for about 10 mins.
• Add the olive oil and knead again for another 5 mins.
• Finally add the sesame seeds and crushed sunflower seeds in the dough and knead for a minute.
• Now using your fingers gently bring the dough together, use a little olive oil if you find the dough very sticky. Cover and leave the dough to rest in the bowl for about an hour or until it doubles in size.
• Once risen preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius and scoop out the dough into a loaf tin. Don’t forget to grease the tin before you dump the dough. Sprinkle sesame seeds and sunflower seeds on top (optional) and also sprinkle a little flour on top (optional). Score the bread with sharp knife (optional). And just leave the bread to proof for the second time (that’s about 20 mins approx.)
• Don't let the bread prove (rise) for a longer time for the second time. 
• By then oven would be hot, place the loaf tin in the oven and bake for about 30-40 minutes or until the top is brown and you hear a hollow sound when you tap the bread.

Notes:  

• It’s safer if you could get your frothy yeast mixture right in the beginning than proceeding ahead.
• Sifting is to make the flour airy and light before it falls into the yeast mixture.
• Dough hook attachment is the spiral attachment which we get along the egg beater set. This is helpful in not making our hands messy while making the bread dough.
• It’s safer not to go by the exact measurement in the recipe and make sure your dough is on a wet side (sticky dough). Initially put ¾ flour mentioned in the recipe and then proceed until you still get wet dough and not stiff dough.
• You could alter the measurements of seeds used according to your convenience.

Enjoy baking 

Thanks

Chaithanya