Brown bread recipe with step by step pictures. Healthy whole wheat bread recipe made easily with wholesome ingredients. You can make this brown bread under 2 hours from start to finish unlike my whole wheat bread recipe which needs some extra time.
Brown Bread Recipe
I was looking for a simple brown bread recipe which I can make faster on day to day basis. This is one such recipe adapted from Jenny can cook. The bread itself is super easy to make, you can make the bread either by hand or in a machine.
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About Brown Bread Recipe
This brown bread recipe is made with whole wheat flour, plain flour, yeast, ,milk, sugar, egg and olive oil. Wheat dough is made and shaped into a loaf shape and let to rise and baked.
Very basic whole wheat bread recipe even a beginner can bake. Just follow the tips and tricks which is given to get perfect result.
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Ingredients for Brown Bread Recipe
- Whole Wheat Flour
- All Purpose flour
- Salt
- Warm Milk
- Sugar
- Yeast
- Egg
- Olive Oil
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How to Make Brown Bread Recipe
Pre-preparation
Grease a 8 ½ x 4 ½ x 2 ¾-inch loaf pan with oil. Set aside. Place wheat flour, plain flour, salt in a mixing bowl or the bowl of the stand mixer. Mix well using a spoon until it is briefly mixed. Set aside.
Activating Yeast for Bread
Take warm milk in a bowl, sprinkle over some sugar, yeast and set aside for 5 mins till the yeast blooms.
Making Brown bread dough
Once the yeast has activated, add egg and olive oil and mix well. Pour this over the flour mixture and place the bowl into the stand mixer and let it knead for 2 mins. After 1 min of kneading, sprinkle the remaining ¼ cup of flour and let it go for another 1 min. So it is a total of 2 min of kneading in stand mixer. Don’t over mix. The dough will be little sticky.
Relaxing the Dough
Once the dough comes together, remove it to a work surface, sprinkle little extra flour and knead gently for 20 times. You should get a smooth finished dough by that time. Don’t use too much flour. Now cover it with a kitchen towel and leave it for 10 mins.
Shaping the dough
Take your greased loaf pan as a guide. Spread the dough gently like a rectangle and roll it carefully. Pinch the seams together and place the seam side down in the loaf pan. Cover with a tea towel and let it rise in a warm spot until it’s one inch taller than the pan, about 35 mins to 1 hour. I like to rise it inside my oven with lights on.
Baking Brown Bread
Meanwhile, during the last 10 mins of rising. preheat oven to 375° F (190 degree C).Place the loaf pan gently into the oven and Bake for 30 minutes. After the first 15 minutes, cover the top of the loaf with a foil tent to prevent over-browning.
Cooling Bread
Remove from oven and let it cool in the baking pan for 10 mins, gently invert it over a cooling rack and let it cool for 2 hours. After 2 hours, slice and serve.
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Brown Bread Recipe | Homemade Brown Bread Recipe
Equipment
- 1 Loaf Pan
- Stand Mixer or Mixing Bowl
Ingredients
- 2 cups Whole Wheat Flour (240 grams)
- ½ cup All Purpose flour (60 grams)
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 Cup Warm Milk (240 ml)
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Yeast
- 1 large Egg
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- ¼ cup All Purpose flour (30 grams Extra)
Instructions
- Grease a 8 ½ x 4 ½ x 2 ¾-inch loaf pan with oil. Set aside.
- Place wheat flour, plain flour, salt in a mixing bowl or the bowl of the stand mixer. Mix well using a spoon until it is briefly mixed. Set aside.
- Take warm milk in a bowl, sprinkle over some sugar, yeast and set aside for 5 mins till the yeast blooms.
- Once the yeast has activated, add egg and olive oil and mix well.
- Pour this over the flour mixture and place the bowl into the stand mixer and let it knead for 2 mins. After 1 min of kneading, sprinkle the remaining ¼ cup of flour and let it go for another 1 min. So it is a total of 2 min of kneading in stand mixer. Don’t over mix. The dough will be little sticky.
- Once the dough comes together, remove it to a work surface, sprinkle little extra flour and knead gently for 20 times. You should get a smooth finished dough by that time. Don’t use too much flour.
- Now cover it with a kitchen towel and leave it for 10 mins.
- Take your greased loaf pan as a guide. Spread the dough gently like a rectangle and roll it carefully. Pinch the seams together and place the seam side down in the loaf pan. Cover with a tea towel and let it rise in a warm spot until it’s one inch taller than the pan, about 35 mins to 1 hour. I like to rise it inside my oven with lights on.
- Meanwhile, during the last 10 mins of rising. preheat oven to 375° F (190 degree C).
- Place the loaf pan gently into the oven and Bake for 30 minutes. After the first 15 minutes, cover the top of the loaf with a foil tent to prevent over-browning.
- Remove from oven and let it cool in the baking pan for 10 mins, gently invert it over a cooling rack and let it cool for 2 hours.
- After 2 hours, slice and serve.
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Notes
- Always measure your ingredients correctly. I like to use a measuring scale for proper measurements.
- If you are using stand mixer to mix the dough, never over mix.
- You can make the dough in a regular mixing bowl using your hands.
- Never over knead the dough else you won’t get smooth finished bread loaf.
Storage Suggestions
- I like to store this in a bread bag or an air tight container at room temp upto 3 days.
- You can freeze this bread upto a month.
- Store in fridge upto a week in an air tight box.
Serving Suggestions
This brown bread can be served fresh sliced with a slather of butter. Bread can be toasted or used to make sandwiches.Nutrition
Brown Bread Recipe Step by Step Pictures
1)Take wheat flour in a bowl. You can use mixing bowl or stand mixer bowl.
2)Add plain flour
3)add salt.
4)mix well and set aside.
5)Take warm milk in a bowl. Add sugar.
6)Add yeast
7)Leave it to activate for 5 mins.
8)Add in egg.
9)pour in olive oil.
10)Mix well and set aside.
11)Pour this into the flour mix.
12)Start kneading in stand mixer for 2 mins. Add the remaining ¼ cup of flour if dough is too sticky.
13)Now dough is done.
14)Remove to a work surface.
15)Sprinkle little flour on top and knead using hands for 20 times.
16)Now you have a smooth finished dough.
17)Cover and let it relax for 10 mins.
18)Now flatten it gently
19)Roll it right into a loaf shape.
20)Place into a greased loaf pan.
21)let it rise in a warm spot until it’s one inch taller than the pan, about 35 mins to 1 hour.
22)Place the loaf pan gently into the oven and Bake for 30 minutes. After the first 15 minutes, cover the top of the loaf with a foil tent to prevent over-browning.
23) Remove from oven and let it cool in the baking pan for 10 mins.
24)slice and serve once cooled completely.
25)Enjoy.
Tips & Tricks
- Always measure your ingredients correctly. I like to use a measuring scale for proper measurements.
- If you are using stand mixer to mix the dough, never over mix.
- You can make the dough in a regular mixing bowl using your hands.
- Never over knead the dough else you won’t get smooth finished bread loaf.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use only wheat flour to make this bread?
Addition of ½ cup of plain flour gives the bread right texture. If you want to make complete wholemeal bread, then check my 100% whole wheat bread recipe.
Can Eggs be skipped in this recipe?
I recommend you to check out my whole wheat bread recipe for eggless option.
What happen when I over knead the bread dough?
Over kneading the dough makes the bread form broken gluten strings and can crack on top. If you are making the bread using a stand mixer then you have to be very careful with overkneading. But making bread using hands has less chance of over kneading.
Can I use butter instead of oil?
Melted butter can be used instead of oil. Olive oil can be substituted with any flavourless oil.
Questions About Yeast?
One of the questions which I often get is Why my bread is not rising. Why my dough is not doubling up. Why my bread is dense.
How to Activate Yeast
- Take warm water in a bowl. Use Luke warm water. Dip your finger in the water and it should be very warm. Just like a warm bath water.
- sprinkle little sweetness like sugar, honey. Because yeast loves warm and sweet environment.
- now sprinkle yeast over it. I use dry yeast.
- leave aside for 5 mins to activate. The yeast mix should be bubbly and foamy. This means yeast is activated.
If your mixture doesn’t look foamy.
1)Then you must have added yeast to too hot water so the yeast has died.
2)You have used cold water so yeast didn’t activated.
3)Your yeast is expired. Always store yeast in freezer in an air right containe
Storage Suggestions
- I like to store this in a bread bag or an air tight container at room temp upto 3 days.
- You can freeze this bread upto a month.
- Store in fridge upto a week in an air tight box.
Serving Suggestions
This brown bread can be served fresh sliced with a slather of butter. Bread can be toasted or used to make sandwiches.
If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.
Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest ,Youtube and Twitter for more Yummy Tummy inspiration.
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