Sourdough Flaxseed Bread
Description
Perfect with tea and coffee. Flax bread may not look as appealing as fluffy wheat buns, but it is much healthier and no less tasty. It is easy to make, and this step-by-step recipe will help. The dough fermentation time depends on several factors: the room temperature and the activity of the starter. I think it won’t be a big problem if you add a couple of grams of yeast to the dough—the taste and quality of the bread will not suffer. The proportions of wheat and flax flour can also be adjusted to your liking. Can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients, including the starter, which is best made in the evening if you plan to bake bread during the day.
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Step 2
To prepare the sponge, take 100 ml of water, 50 grams of wheat flour, and 70 grams of wheat sourdough starter.
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Step 3
Mix the water, flour, and starter, cover with plastic wrap, and leave at room temperature until morning, for 8 hours.
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Step 4
The appearance of the sponge in the morning, by the time the dough is kneaded, it had increased in volume and become covered with numerous bubbles.
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Step 5
Pour water into a container for kneading dough, add the starter, then add salt, sugar, and flax seeds, and mix.
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Step 6
Add wheat and flaxseed flour.
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Step 7
Knead the dough. The dough will be fairly dense and sticky, but this is a characteristic of flaxseed flour. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and leave it to ferment at room temperature for 3–5 hours, depending on fermentation activity.
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Step 8
During fermentation, the dough did not increase much in volume, but it became loose and full of air bubbles.
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Step 9
Place the dough on the work surface of the table. Shape the bread.
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Step 10
Smooth the shaped loaf well with your hands; you can coat it in bran. Leave it to proof for 1 hour. Before baking, make 3 punctures in the bread with a wooden skewer. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.
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Step 11
Bake the bread for the first 10 minutes at 250 degrees, then for 50–60 minutes at 180 degrees. Cool the finished bread completely on a wire rack.
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Step 12
After the bread has cooled, it is ready to serve. This kind of bread does not go stale and does not spoil for several days.
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Step 13
The cut of the bread shows that it is fairly dense, yet flax bread is very healthy and tasty; you definitely won’t find bread like this on store shelves—this bread is for healthy eating.