Description
The perfect juicy bread dough for the whole family!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cube fresh yeast or 2 packets dry yeast
- 600 g spelt flour 630
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 400 ml water
- 2 tablespoons of salt
- 400 g rye flour
- 400 g floury potatoes
- some bread spice if desired
Instructions
- Wash, peel and cook potatoes until soft, mash the potatoes
- Put 100g spelt flour in a bowl, crumble yeast into it
- Mix 100 ml of lukewarm water with the honey and stir with the flour-yeast mixture
- Cover and leave in a warm place for 15 minutes or until the volume has doubled
- Mix the remaining flour (both types), salt and if used spices
- Add 300 ml of lukewarm water, the mashed potatoes and knead well with the advantage (either with the kneading chopper of the food processor, or with strong upper arms…)
- Leave covered for approx. 1 hour and let the dough rise until it has doubled
- Now either divide the dough into 2 parts and form 2 “root” loaves (roll into a strand and then twist) or form a round ball for a round loaf
- Flour the dough pieces (i.e. sprinkle them with a little flour) and place them on a floured baking tray
- Preheat oven to 230°C top and bottom heat
- Let the dough pieces rise again for 20 – 30 minutes
- Fill a fireproof container with water and put it in the oven together with the dough
- Bake the potato bread ( 1 round loaf: 60 minutes / 2 long loaves: 40 -45 minutes)
- Allow to cool completely on a grid before cutting
Notes
You can vary the recipe very well. If you like, put 2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds or walnuts in it .