Honey Wheat Bread

Name: Honey Wheat Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 envelopes active dry yeast; 591 milliliters bread flour, divided; 2 Tbsps butter, plus more for bowl and pans; 237 milliliters cracked wheat (bulgur); 79 milliliters honey; 2 teaspoons salt; 473 milliliters whole-wheat flour

This recipe makes 16 servings with 188 calories, 6g of protein, and 3g of fat each. If 23 cents per serving falls in your budget, Honey Wheat Bread might be an amazing vegetarian recipe to try. If you have active yeast, cracked wheat, honey, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a medium bowl, combine cracked wheat, honey, salt, and 2 cups boiling water. Cover with a clean towel or plastic wrap and let sit 30 minutes.

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Cracked Wheat

Honey

Water

Salt

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in 3/4 cup warm water (90 to 105).

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Water

Yeast

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Bowl

Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk whole-wheat flour and 2 cups bread flour together.

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Bread Flour

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Stand Mixer

Whisk

Bowl

Add cracked wheat and yeast mixtures.

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Cracked Wheat

Yeast

Attach dough hook and, with mixer on low, mix to combine.

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Dough

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Blender

Add remaining bread flour, 1/4 cup at a time, until dough pulls away from inside of bowl. Continue mixing until smooth and elastic, adding more flour as necessary to keep dough from sticking too much. When it's ready, the dough should feel a bit like an earlobe when you pinch it.

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All Purpose Flour

Dough

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Bowl

Butter a large bowl and put dough in it. Cover loosely and let sit until dough has doubled in bulk, about 1 hour. Punch down dough, cover, and let double again, about 1 hour.

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Butter

Dough

Punch

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Bowl

Divide dough in half and shape each half into a rough 8-in.-long rectangle. Butter two 8-in. loaf pans and put dough in pans. Cover and let sit until doubled in bulk, 30 to 45 minutes.

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Butter

Dough

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Loaf Pan

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

Melt 2 tbsp. butter and brush onto tops of loaves. Using a razor or serrated knife, make a 1/4-in.-deep slash lengthwise on the top of each loaf and bake until browned, about 35 minutes.

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Butter

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Serrated Knife