Name: Easy seed & grain loaf
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8 thick slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500g mixed grain flour; 1 tbsp each sesame and poppy seeds, plus extra for topping; 1 sachet fast-action yeast; 1 tsp salt; 300ml hand-hot water; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 tbsp clear honey

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Easy seed & grain loaf

Easy seed & grain loaf

Mary Cadogan

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8 thick slices

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 30 mins - 35 mins

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Bake a nourishing seed and grain loaf in thirty minutes, perfect with soup

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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500g mixed grain flour
1 tbsp each sesame

and poppy seeds, plus extra for topping
1 sachet fast-action yeast
1 tsp salt
300ml hand-hot water
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp clear honey

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal266
fat8g
saturates1g
carbs41g
sugars2.5g
fibre5g
protein9g
salt0.65g

low

Method

step 1

Tip the flour, seeds, yeast and salt into a large bowl. Mix the water, oil and honey in a jug, then pour into the dry mix, stirring all the time to make a soft dough. If it feels sticky, sprinkle in a little more flour.
step 2

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 mins, until the dough no longer feels sticky, sprinkling with a little more flour as you need it.
step 3

Oil a 1.2-litre loaf tin and put the dough in the tin, pressing it in evenly. Cover with a tea towel and leave to rise for 1 hr, until it springs back when you press it with your finger. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.
step 4

Make eight slashes across the top of the loaf, brush with water and sprinkle alternately with poppy and sesame seeds. Bake for 30-35 mins until the loaf is risen and brown. Tip it out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.

RECIPE TIPS

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You can choose whatever flour you like for this loaf – wholemeal, granary or white. Instead of the seeds, you could throw in some chopped nuts and raisins, or even some cubes of cheese and chopped fried onions.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2006

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