Clean Eating Bread In 5 Minutes A Day
If you haven’t read the book Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients
I was so excited when the authors shared this video with a base recipe I could try before I bought the book.
The only thing I didn’t like was the use of white flour. In my Clean Eating plan, I’m not allowing any white flour at all. So I had to adapt this a little. And you know what? It worked!
All I did was follow their recipe exactly, but I substituted the white flour for more whole wheat pastry flour (which is the only kind of whole wheat flour I ever use.). It turned out great!
I should mention that by substituting the flour, I was not able to get four loaves of bread out of the recipe as they show in the video. I was only able to make two loaves. But I’m okay with that! The bread turned out much more dense then what they show, but it’s really tasty.
I topped mine with some sesame seeds for the first loaf.
For the second loaf, I added Italian spice and sun dried tomatoes to the bread by “sandwiching” them between to layers of dough. (You’re not supposed to kneed the dough, so I improvised.)
Watch the video for the recipe. It’s very good bread, and only has three ingredients! You can’t get much cleaner than that.
Eat and Enjoy!
You can find the book at Amazon.com here:
Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients
13 comments
I’ve been looking for something exactly like this. Thanks for the awesome post! Love the site!
Thanks Sallie! Enjoy the bread!
This looks fantastic, I’m trying it tonight. I don’t have a pizza stone, do you think it will come out okay?
Hi Leigh,
I don’t have one either. I put mine on a cookie sheet with parchment paper. It should be fine.
Let me know how it turns out for you!
Tiffany
The bread is fantastic. So simple and good that I had to order the book.
Fantastic! So glad you enjoyed it!
Have a great weekend!
Check out the HB in 5 group that is baking their way through the book. It has been a lot of fun so far. I had never baked bread before and now I feel pretty confident about it. http://bigblackdogs.net/hbinfive/
Daphne – I will! Sounds like a blast. Thanks for sharing!
I have to say that the master recipe is the only one I really like, so far. I made the soft sandwich bread, I think it’s called. The one they recommend for hamburger buns and it is so dense. I will continue to try them, though. I’ll check out the group.
I bought the book, too. I made the 100% whole wheat dough. First I made a rustic boule. Then I made burger buns. Next I made 3 different filled loaves for a party: Rolled into long rectangles, cut slits across half of each one and filled them with: spinach, feta and roasted red peppers (lazy me-from a jar); thinly sliced ham and cheddar; bacon, carmelized onions and mushrooms (ok, not so clean). Then folded the slit sides over the other sides and pressed the edges with a little water to help it stick. Rested the breads about 40 minutes and baked them about 25 minutes. They were beautiful with the fillings peeking out of the slits. Very much enjoyed by all.On the 14th day I used up the last of the dough in a long loaf , brushed the top with egg white and water and sprinkled it with sesame, poppy, chia and hemp seeds. I love bread too much!
Jodi – Lazy you?????? You’re a bread making machine!!! I would hardly call you lazy!
Totally get what you mean about the love of bread. There’s just nothing else that compares.
I meant lazy because I didn’t roast the peppers. I baked all that bread over 2 weeks.
I need to figure out how to make bread with sprouted grains and no flour-like Ezekial 4:9 bread. It’s the only bread I’ve found that doesn’t raise my blood sugar too much. (flour=lots of surface area for digestive juices to work on so it breaks down into sugars much faster than the intact whole grain) . Just found that out from Dr. Weil.
I don’t have much of a sweet tooth. I can be satisfied with a small bite or spoonful and savor it for a long time. But bread, oh my goodness! A really good bread is nigh impossible for me to leave alone.
Jodi – I feel your pain. Bread is so hard to resist! Especially if it’s a good bread.
That’s really interesting about the flour. I’ll have to see if I can try a bread with sprouted gains myself.
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