How to make whole wheat sesame bread at home

Pay attention to the rising times: it takes about four hours in total. Once baked, the bread should be covered with a tea towel.

whole wheat sesame bread
  • Preparation time: 20 minutes
  • Cooking time: 50 minutes
  • Rising time: 4 hours in total
  • difficulty: low

How to make whole wheat sesame bread

Making bread at home It's always a great satisfaction, and in addition to guaranteeing the authenticity of a product, it offers us the opportunity to save money and avoid waste. With this simple recipe you can make a bread very special: wholemeal with sesame.

Ingredients (the doses are calculated for one kilo of bread)

  • 1,6 kg of wholemeal flour
  • 150 g of sourdough starter
  • 10 C toasted sesame seeds
  • 800-900 g of water
  • about 20g of salt

Preparation

  • Activate il mother yeast with 300 g of flour, 150 g of sourdough starter, approximately 200 g of water.
  • knead the ingredients until you reach the right consistency, not too hard nor too watery; leave to rise at a temperature between 18° and 25° for 4-5 hours, then add 1,3 kg of flour, 600-700 g of water, the salt and the sesamo.
  • knead Once again, let it rise for about 2 hours in a warm, humid place. When the dough has almost doubled in size, shape it into two loaves, each weighing about 1 kg, and place them in two oiled, tall-sided rectangular molds.
  • Let it rise Leave for another couple of hours and bake at about 200 degrees Celsius for about fifty minutes. Once cooked, cover them with a tea towel so that the moisture is evenly distributed throughout the bread.

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