According to Medical News Today, flaxseed is a plant-based food that provides healthful fat, antioxidants, and fiber. Some people call it a “functional food,” which means that a person can eat it to boost their health. Some of the health benefits include reducing risk of cancer, improving cholesterol and heart health, easing symptoms of arthritis, reducing hot flashes, improving blood sugar, preventing constipation and others. My husband likes to add flaxseed to his overnight oats. However, I experimented with it by adding it to my bread. The bread turned out to be very soft without any strong taste of the flaxseed.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup brown flaxseed meal
- 1 1/2 cup bread flour
- 2 tsp yeast
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1/2 tsp salt
Method:
- Grease and line a loaf pan 8 inch x 4 inch x 4 inch. Set aside.
- Put the flours, flaxseed meal, sugar, salt and yeast into the mixer.
- Pour the warm milk and break the egg into the mixer.
- Add the oil into the mixing bowl. (Sometimes I use melted butter instead of oil.)
- Knead the ingredients into a smooth dough. This will take about 20 minutes or slightly more.
- Grease a bowl with oil.
- Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and put it into the greased bowl. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap.
- Leave the dough to proof until it double in size.
- Once it has doubled in size, remove the dough from the bowl onto a slightly floured table-top.
- Punch down the dough to remove the gas trapped inside.
- Then roll it into a rectangle and roll it up to fit the loaf pan.
- Cover the loaf pan with a wet towel.
- Let the dough double in size.
- Pre-heat oven to 175 degree Celsius.
- Once the dough has doubled in size, sprinkle the top of the dough with flaxseed.
- Bake it in the oven for about 35 - 40 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the oven.
- Remove the bread immediately from the pan and let it cool down on a metal rack.
- Slice the loaf once it has completely cool down.