Bread tips

It took me a year to complete this bread recepi in US. 

Now everyone likes it, especially Lilly and Connor :) 

Chia seeds bread 

It's always a hit gift for all my friends. 

It's got 

- chia seeds

- flax seeds

- rolled oats 

- coconuts oil 

- walnuts 

- craneberries 

For me this is a kind of energy bread that I can feel safe to feed the kids everyday. 

Kids like to eat by itself when it's freshly baked, or with cream cheese on. 

Cream cheese and cranberries, our favorite combo. 

Or veggie sandwiches with soup 

Or airfryer crunchy crust as a snack 

Real crunchy 

Or airfried veggie pizza toast to start a day

Here are some tips to bake this bread. 

1. Stand by the bread machine while it's kneading. 

I usually put 280g water in this recipe(I use 'grams' for everything so you don't need to use and wash other spoons and cups. Lazy. ) but sometimes you need more than 280g water somehow. Maybe depends on the weather or how much flours, seeds etc u put in. 

So the dough should be very soft and smooth but not too sticky. If the dough sticks to the bread case while it's kneading, that means you got too much water. You'll need to add some more flour to adjust. 

So I believe you can pretty much see the result by seeing the dough condition at the beginning. So I prefer stand by the machine and watch the quality. 

2. Get prepared. 

To bake this bread, it used to take me at least 10-15mins to put all the ingredients together in the bread case. As a lazy person, it was a pretty hard work and needed some good motivation before start baking. 

Well, now I got 2 bins. 

Bin no. 1

Bread flour and whole wheat flour 

Bin no. 2 refrigerated ingredients 

All other ingredients incl coconuts oil. 

Coconut oil doesn't get solid like butter here in Singaoore. Room temperature is too hot. So I pour the coconut oil into an ice tray, put it in the fridge for a while, made coconut oil cubes and store in the same bin with other ingredients. 

So this way, I don't have to measure either :)  no washing oily spoon!

Genius!

I usually threw 1 or 2 cubes in the bread :) 

So now the preparation is so much easier like I can get it done in 5 mins. Just take out 2 bins and you have everything in your hand. What a time saver! 

3. Check before beeps. 

I like nice and soft light brown colored bread. So I start checking my bread 30mins before it beeps to finish baking. 

I usually stop the machine and takes out 10-20mins before finish. 

4. Let it cool down. 

Let the bread sit on the cake cooker at least 15-20mins before cutting. The steam will make the bread moist and soft. 

5. Store in the plastic bag. 

When the bread is still warm, put it in the plastic bag so you can get nice soft crust bread like you buy from the shop. Because I don't like the thick crunchy crust. But Scott does. So it's depends how you like it but I usually store in the plastic bag when it's still warm. 

 

Those are the tips for my bread :) 

Observe the beginning! I think that's the most important tip :) 

Thanks for asking for this Yulia!

Hope you bake the best bread you really love soon!!!

Enjoy baking!