This yeast-raised oat bread is especially light, moist, and flavorful. The combination of oats and yeast gives the bread a fine crumb, making it perfect for breakfast, sandwiches, or as a side dish with dinner.
Oat bread with yeast
This oat bread recipe is perfect if you want to bake a healthy and moist loaf. It’s made with simple ingredients like rolled oats, is quick to prepare, and even baking beginners can make it successfully. It’s perfect for breakfast, as a sandwich for work, or for dinner with a tasty spread and cucumbers or salad.
Oat bread with yeast
Ingredients
Method
- Cook the whole oats in water for 50 minutes until tender, then strain.
- Mix all the dry ingredients.
- First, mix the fresh yeast with a little lukewarm water in a cup, then add it to the dry ingredients and knead everything together with water. Be careful when adding the water, as the cooked oats are quite moist.
- Knead in the cooked oats. The dough should have a good, slightly firm consistency.
- Cover the entire dough and let it rise for 1 hour.
- Then transfer it to a lightly floured surface and knead it again.
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and place the loaf in it. Let it rise for another 25 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius (top and bottom heat). Make a slit in the center of the loaf and bake at 220 degrees for about 20 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 200 degrees and finish baking. Total baking time: about 50–60 minutes.
- Remove the bread from the oven. The bread is done when you tap the bottom and it sounds hollow. Brush it briefly with cold water.
Tip
Steam helps the dough rise better during baking and creates a crispier crust thanks to the moisture in the oven. The dough should have visibly risen before baking, but it doesn’t necessarily have to double in size.
You can find more ideas for baking different kinds of bread in this section.
Interesting to know
Oats are naturally high in fiber, which helps keep oat bread especially moist and fresh for a long time. Since oats contain very little gluten. Oat bread with yeast often includes additional flour to help the bread rise properly and develop a firm crumb.
