Light Wholewheat Hitop Bread

This healthy light 60/40 whole wheat bread is easy to make for a wonderful sandwich any day of the week.

Ingredients make 2

600 g wholemeal flour

400 g white bread flour

1 tbls salt (20g)

1 packet of yeast (7g)

700 g water

Method

Place flour, salt and yeast in a mixing bowl and mix evenly. Add lukewarm water to the flour mixture and combine to dough. Dust the work surface with flour and turn the dough out. Knead the dough for approx. 5 minutes until smooth and elastic. Place the dough back into the bowl and cover with cling wrap. Allow resting for 1 hour or until double in size. Spray two loaf pans with cooking spray. Dust flour on the kitchen table and work the dough with flour into two round balls. Shape each ball into an oval shape and dip in plain flour. Put the shaped dough in the greased bread tins and allow proofing for approx. 1 hour. Preheat oven to 220ºC normal bake. Cut slashes in the top of the bread and bake in the oven for approx. 35 minutes. Remove bread from the oven and place loaves on a wire rack. Allow cooling for at least 15 minutes before cutting.

Note: Try dipping the bread in sesame or poppy seeds instead of flour.