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Muesli loaf
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + rising + proving
- Easy
- Serves 12
Ingredients
- 150ml whole milk, plus a splash for glazing
- 4 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp dried active yeast
- 450g spelt flour
- 50g rolled porridge oats, plus a little extra
- 50g dessicated coconut, plus a little extra
- 50g oat bran
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1½ tsp salt
- 75g dried apricots, chopped
- 75g dates, chopped
- 50g sultanas
- 50g dried cranberries
- 100g mixed nuts, pecans and almonds)
- 25g sunflower seeds, plus a little extra
Method
- STEP 1
Warm the milk and honey in a small pan (or in the microwave) to hand-hot, then stir in the yeast and wait for it to bubble and froth.
- STEP 2
Meanwhile, mix the flour, oats, desiccated coconut, bran, bicarb, cinnamon and salt in your biggest mixing bowl. Tip in the yeasty milk mixture plus 200ml of hand-hot water and mix everything together to a sticky dough. Cover the bowl with lightly oiled clingfilm and leave the dough to rise at room temperature for 2 hours (or overnight in the fridge).
- STEP 3
Tip the dried fruit, nuts and seeds into the bowl with the dough and knead in until evenly distributed. On your worksurface, use a little flour to help you shape the bread into an oval loaf. Carefully lift onto a baking sheet dusted with a little more bran or flour. Cover lightly with oiled clingfilm again, and leave to double in size. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5.
- STEP 4
Glaze the loaf with a splash more milk and scatter with some extra porridge oats, coconut and sunflower seeds. Use a floured knife to slash the top a few times (it helps the loaf to cook evenly) and bake for 40-45 minutes or until golden, well risen, and the loaf sounds hollow when you tap its base. Glaze the loaf with a splash more milk and scatter with some extra porridge oats, coconut and sunflower seeds. Use a floured knife to slash the top a few times (it helps the loaf to cook evenly) and bake for 40-45 minutes or until golden, well risen, and the loaf sounds hollow when you tap its base.
- STEP 5
Cool on a wire rack before eating on the day with butter and marmalade or jam, or toasted over the following week.
