Sweet chestnut bread with plums
Sweet chestnut bread with plums is an absolute hit. The moist, sweet, slightly Christmassy cinnamon note gives the bread that certain something.
Ingredients
- 250 g whole spelt flour
- 50 g chestnut flour
- 20 g fresh yeast
- 2 tbsp water
- 80 g date flour
- 60 g dried plums
- 50 g cooked chestnuts
- 2 tsp lupin flour
- 4 tsp sparkling water
- 2 tsp stollen spice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 200 ml soy drink
- 150 g soy yogurt
- 2 tbsp spelt flour type 630 for shaping
Instructions
- Cut the dried plums and boiled chestnuts into very small pieces.
- Place the soy drink, date flour and dried plums in a pan.
- Heat gently while stirring.
- Add the cinnamon and stollen spice.
- Dissolve the fresh yeast in a cup with 1 - 2 tablespoons of lukewarm water.
- Mix the lupin flour with the sparkling water in a cup.
- Place the soy yogurt and all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
- Cover and leave to rise for approx. 1 hour.
- Then slide onto a well-floured surface.
- Stretch and fold the dough 2 - 3 times with flour type 630. Finally, shape into rounds.
- Place the dough on a baking tray lined with baking paper, cut twice and leave to rise for 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius top/bottom heat.
- Brush the chestnut bread with soy drink. Pour a cup of hot water onto the baking tray and place both in the oven.
- After 10 minutes, turn the temperature down to 180 degrees, brush the bread with soy drink and bake for another 35 minutes. Brush with soy drink every 10 minutes. When the bread is ready, brush again and leave to cool.
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