German Muesli Bread

This picture is updated on Aug 12.


This is another of our favourite bread, grainy & wholesome. JF is not a great fan though, because there's a lot of grains & seeds in it but I make sure she finish the whole slice on her plate each time I make this bread. The recipe is adapted from Celebrity Chefs' Cookbooks, Don Yong's Bread Winners.

Ingredients

280g High protein flour
80g Multigrain (leave some for coating the top)
40g Wheat bran *
12g Dry wheat gluten *
6g Bread improver *
8g Instant dry yeast
30g Sugar
8g Salt
260g Cold water
30g Butter
120g Raisins
100g Chopped walnuts *

With an electric mixer & dough hook at low speed, mix the dry ingredients for 1 min, add water & mix on low speed for another 2 mins. Add butter & mix on medium speed for 12-15 mins until dough is fully developed. Add raisins & walnuts on low speed.
Place the dough into a large greased bowl & let it rise in a warm place for 1hr until dough doubles up in size. Divide the dough into 3 pcs, each 350g, roll the dough pcs out with a rolling pin. Mould each pc firmly into a cylindrical shape, the length of a appropriate baking tin. Wet the surface & coat with multigrain.
Prove the dough pcs for 1hr until double in size. Bake at 200 degress for 25mins.

* I change the wheat bran to wholemeal flour & omitted the dry wheat gluten cos' it's not available in KK. The bread improver is also left out as I make my bread without any bread softener. I've used dried fig & cranberries instead of raisins & left the walnuts out too, my girls don't like walnuts ! I've double the recipe to 1.5x & made two bigger loaves, the other loaf is too camera shy cos' it was deformed by me, haha ! In our weather the second proving only took about 40 mins.