This homemade healthy sandwich bread recipe is soft and made with healthy ingredients like whole wheat flour, sunflower seeds, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, oats, flaxseed, and just a touch of honey. THIS IS THE BEST HOMEMADE BREAD EVER!
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Ingredients
For the bread:
1 ¼ cup milk
1/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1 tablespoon honey
2 1/4 teaspoons quick rise yeast
3 tablespoons butter, melted
2 cups bread flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour, plus more if necessary
2 tablespoons flaxseed meal
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
Oil, for coating
For the egg wash:
1 egg, beaten
For topping:
2 tablespoon old-fashioned rolled oats
1 tablespoon sunflower seeds
Optional: extra poppy seeds and sesame seeds
Instructions
Heat milk in a small saucepan over low heat until milk is warm (about 115 degrees F). It should be warm to the touch like warm. Remove from heat and pour into a large bowl and stir in oats, yeast and honey. Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.
Next, stir in melted butter into the bowl with the oats/yeast/honey. Immediately add in bread flour, whole wheat flour, flaxseed meal, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, poppy seeds and salt mix with a wooden spoon until a dough begins to form. At this point I like to get the dough to come together with clean hands. Place dough onto a well-floured surface and knead the dough with your hands for 10 minutes.
Once done kneading, form dough into a ball and place in a large bowl coated with about 1 tablespoon oil, turning the dough over to coat with oil. Cover with towel and allow the dough to rise for about 90 minutes, or until doubled in size. This may take more of less time depending on the weather or temperature in your home.
Next, grease a 8×4 inch loaf pan. After dough has risen, knead it just a few more times on a clean surface coated with whole wheat flour for about 1 min then shape dough into an 8-inch long log and place in prepared pan, tucking the ends underneath.
Cover the loaf with towel and allow it to rise again for 60-90 minutes or until the loaf has risen an inch above the brim of the pan. This may take more or less time depending on how warm it is in your home. Watch carefully because you don’t want the dough to rise too much.
Once dough has risen the second time, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat egg in small bowl and brush over the top of the dough. Sprinkle a few more oats, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and poppy seeds on top of the dough.
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until loaf is slightly golden brown on top and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Transfer pan to wire rack to cool for 10 minutes, then remove bread from pan and place on wire rack to finish cooling for at least 2 hours. And enjoy!