The healthiest types of bread include:
1. Ezekiel bread which is made without added sugar and from sprouted whole grains,
2. Flax seed bread,
3. Rye bread,
4. Oat bread, and
5. Whole wheat bread.
So far, I have been baking a lot of oat bread and whole wheat bread for my family. Now I have excluded sugar from some of my breads. This is because sugar has calories and, secondly, it will increase the blood sugar in our body (especially if we are diabetic or have diabetes-related conditions). The Whole Wheat Bran Loaf is sugarless and is a welcome addition to the breads I bake.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups whole wheat flour
- 6 tbsp wheat bran
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp yeast
- 250 ml water or milk
- 30 g butter
Method:
- Add whole wheat flour and bran into a mixing bowl.
- Add salt to one side of the bowl and yeast on the opposite side. (Salt will slow down the fermentation activities of the yeast.)
- Mix up all the ingredients in the mixing bowl.
- Slowly add the water or milk. Mix and knead until a smooth dough is formed.
- Add butter and knead further to incorporate the butter into the dough.
- Line and grease an 8 inch by 4 inch baking pan.
- Transfer the dough into the baking pan.
- Cover the pan and let the dough rise for about 1 hour.
- Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Centigrade.
- Put the pan into the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Once the bread has baked, remove the pan from the oven.
- Remove the bread from the pan immediately and let it cool down completely on a wire rack before slicing it.