Whole wheat bread
What an irresistible aroma spreads in the kitchen when baking the whole wheat bread! Then, when you have tasted a piece of it, you will also be enchanted by its spicy taste. With its crispy crust and moist crumb, whole wheat bread tastes heavenly delicious. With this recipe it is very easy to make the whole wheat bread with four ingredients and little yeast.
Servings 1 bread
Ingredients
- approx. 620 g whole wheat flour
- 460 ml water cold
- 3 g fresh yeast
- 15 g salt
- water for the work surface
- whole wheat flour for the work surface
Instructions
- Dissolve fresh yeast in cold water.
- Add salt and flour in portions and knead into a soft sticky dough. Knead the dough for about 5 - 7 minutes.
- Put the dough on a work surface moistened with cold water and spread it out into a square with your hands, moistening your hands with water as you go. Fold each side of the square in turn toward the center, return the resulting packet to the mixing bowl with the folded sides facing down, and let it rise, covered, at room temperature for about 8 hours. The dough should have more than doubled in volume and formed fermentation bubbles during this time.
- Then return the dough to a work surface moistened with water, spread it out, fold it several times, and let it rise in the mixing bowl, covered, at room temperature for another 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven together with the baking tray to 240 °C top and bottom heat.
- Now form the dough into a ball on a floured work surface and roll it in flour. Carefully place the dough ball on the hot baking tray with the end facing upwards and bake the bread at 240 °C for the first 15 minutes, then cover it with baking paper, switch the oven to 210 °C and bake it for another 25 minutes.
Notes
- The amount of flour indicated may vary. Add flour in portions only until you get a soft sticky dough. It should not be dry, but not too mushy either.
- Depending on how warm it is in the kitchen, the dough may take a little more or less time to rise.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the whole wheat bread at the top of the post.