Honey Oat Bread

I have lots of leftover oats from crumbing our fish fillets the other night. Somehow eating oats by itself for breakfast doesn't seem very appealing to me. So there sit my oats in the cupboard for few days untouched.

With many success baking sweet and savoury buns and rolls, believe it or not I always fail making a normal loaf bread. It somehow rose too much or burnt on top or decide to just collapse on me. Very frustrating.

So tonight I decided to give it another try. Rather nervous, I'd try with oats in them. To make it my own, I tweaked the recipe by substituting the sugar with honey. Here's the original recipe and my version of it.

Light Oat Bread

Ingredients:
295 ml water
25 g margarine - olive oil
6 g salt
375 g bread flour
40 g rolled oats
25 g brown sugar - blue gum honey
6 g active dry yeast
few dashes of cinnamon powder

How to make:
Preheat oven 175C/350F
Combine dry ingredients.
Make a well in the centre.
Combine yeast, suger (or honey), butter and warm water in a separate bowl. Leave for few minutes til frothy and creamy. Add yeast mixture to the dry ingredients and mix.
Knead 10-15 mins. Proove for an hour or til doubled in size.
Punch dough with your fist. Shape and place dough into prepared loaf pan.
Leave to rise again for 30-45 mins.

Bake 30 mins.



Tips: The recipe calls for bread maker but I don't have one so I knead the bread by hand about 8-10 mins. The dough was a bit sticky so while kneading I kept adding flour (up to 1/4c more, maybe?) to my workbench and hands til I get a smooth dough. The oats didn't completely disappear, it was still there only I think the amount of oats are not enough to show in the bread too much, which is great for hubby (whom would freak out if he sees them!) and for fussy little eaters. The entire house smelled of bread and honey when it was in the oven. Beautiful!