Mixed Seeds Light Rye Bread

Mixed Seeds Light Rye Bread

380 g Light rye flour 380 g Refined spelt bread flour 20 g Sea salt 20 g Fresh yeast, crumbled 2 tsp Honey 100 ml Lukewarm water 150 g Sourdough starter 400 ml Buttermilk, at room temperature 50 g Pumpkin seeds 50 g Flax seeds 50 g Sunflower seeds

1. Mix light rye flour, spelt bread flour, and sea salt in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the center, and place the yeast, and honey in the well. Add in lukewarm water and a little flour from the sides of well. Stir the mixture until it resembles thick porridge. Cover with a kitchen towel and leave it aside for 15-20 minutes.
2. Add in the sourdough and buttermilk. Stir until the dough comes together and pulls away from sides of bowl. Turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface and form the dough into a ball. Dust the ball of dough with some spelt flour and proof, covered with a kitchen towel, for 20 minutes.
3. Push the pumpkin, flax, sunflower seeds into the dough and knead and knead the dough until the seeds are incorporated.
4. Divide the dough into two portions and shape each into a round. Place them on a baking tray dusted with flour and proof, covered with a kitchen towel, for another 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 220C/430F. Cut some decorative slashes on the top of bread.
5. Bake the bread in the center of the hot oven for 15 minutes then reduce the oven temperature to 180C/350F and bake the bread a further 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush with water. Return the bread to the oven and bake for 5 more minutes until nicely golden brown and crusty.

Mixed Seeds Light Rye Bread

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Baked Fresh Strawberries Recipe with Pistachios in Quark Spelt Blankets

Baked Fresh Strawberries with Pistachios in Quark Spelt Blankets

The dough ‘blanket’ is mainly prepared with Quark, wholegrain, and refined spelt flours. Strawberries can be replaced with banana and use apricot jam instead of strawberry jam.

Quark, literally translated as ‘curd’, is a German fresh cheese, very similar to the American cottage cheese. It’s a curd cheese made from skimmed milk and soured with a lactic starter. Quark is very popular in Germany. It can be eaten plain on its own or make it into a sauce, spread, dessert or cake.

Quark Dough	Filling
200 g Wholegrain spelt flour 100 g Refined spelt flour 1 tbsp Baking powder 150 g Low-fat Magerquark (German fresh cheese) 6 tbsp Milk 6 tbsp Rape seed oil 70 g Caster sugar 1 tbsp Vanilla sugar Pinch of sal	300 g Fresh strawberries, halved Strawberry jam 1 Egg, lightly beaten 3 tbsp Pistachio nuts, roughly chopped Sugar pearls

Baked Fresh Strawberries

1. Whisk the spelt flours and baking powder together in a mixing bowl. Add in quark, milk, oil, sugars and salt. With a handheld electric mixer fitted with dough hooks at high speed, stir all the ingredients until just incorporated, for 1 minutes. Don’t overdo it, or the dough will be sticky.
2. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Cover it with a plastic film and roll out the dough into a 24x60cm rectangular. Cut out 10 squares, each 12x12cm.
3. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F. Place two strawberry halves in the center of dough. Brush strawberries with strawberry jam. Brush four corners lightly with beaten egg. Pinch two corners crosswise to make an open pocket. (look a bit like Duchess Danish pastry) Brush the pockets with beaten egg and sprinkle with chopped pistachios and sugar pearls.
4. Bake open pockets in the center of hot oven and bake for 15-20 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla sauce or whipped cream.

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