Delicious wholemeal bread recipe with spelt flour and wholemeal spelt flour for a healthy and quick yeast bread that you bake yourself. It was important to us to use easy ingredients and to find a spelt bread recipe that is quick and easy to bake.
Best wholemeal bread recipe with spelt flour
There is nothing better than having freshly baked bread in front of you. The smell and the anticipation of the soft and slightly crispy bread is tempting. Even though it’s easier to buy bread in a bakery, it’s different when you bake it all by yourself. You enjoy it even more when you know which ingredients are included in your wholemeal bread recipe.
You can also adapt the recipe a little to your own wishes and vary it slightly. You can always add the grains and seeds that you like and vary the sweetness a little, as in today’s recipe, the wholemeal bread recipe with spelt flour, a light spelt bread.
Delicious spelt bread made from wholemeal spelt flour
Bread made with wholemeal flour always tastes very healthy and keeps you full for longer. The advantages of wholemeal flour compared to white flour are easy to explain. While for white flour, such as easy wheat flour, only the endosperm is used for grinding, wholemeal flour contains a mixture of the endosperm, the bran and the germ of the grain.
Since the important fiber, minerals and vitamins are found in the husk and the germ, white flour is not as healthy as whole grain flour. The dietary fiber in wholemeal flour compared to wheat flour is very different.
Wholemeal spelt is ideal if you want a higher protein content, iron content and potassium content than is found in wholemeal wheat flour. Spelt also has more calories than wheat, but wholemeal spelt has less vitamin B3 and less fiber than wholemeal wheat.
Healthy nutrition with wholemeal flour
Healthy eating means much more to us today than it did a few years ago. Choosing the right foods is therefore crucial for our health and well-being. One area where many people can improve their diet is by switching from white flour products to whole grains.
Wholemeal flour offers numerous health benefits compared to refined flour and the difference in processing has a significant impact on the nutritional content of the flour.
Higher fiber content
An outstanding advantage of wholemeal flour, as in our wholemeal bread recipe, is its high fiber content compared to light flour. Fiber is good for healthy digestion and helps to keep blood sugar levels stable, thus reducing the risk of heart disease. Since whole grain flour contains the bran portion, which is rich in fiber, eating whole grain products such as whole grain bread is an effective way to increase fiber intake.
Rich in nutrients
Wholemeal flour contains a large number of nutrients compared to light flour. These include vitamins such as B vitamins (e.g. folic acid, niacin) and minerals such as iron, magnesium and zinc. These nutrients are important for metabolism, energy production and the function of various organ systems. By consuming whole grain products, you can ensure that your body is supplied with these vital nutrients.
Low glycemic index
Whole grain products generally have a lower glycemic index than refined carbohydrates. This means that they raise blood sugar levels more slowly and keep you feeling full for longer. This is particularly important for people with diabetes or those who want to reduce their risk of diabetes. It is also helpful for people who want to pay a little more attention to their figure to look out for products with a low glycemic index.
Better for heart health
Regular consumption of whole grain products such as whole grain bread is associated with a reduced risk of heart disease. This is partly due to the fiber in whole grains, which can lower cholesterol levels. Wholemeal products also provide important phytonutrients such as antioxidants, which protect against inflammation and thus support the cardiovascular system.
If you prefer to eat white bread and don’t value wholegrain products, you will feel hungry again more quickly and want to eat more overall. Even though the easy and sweet products often have their appeal, in this day and age, knowing what you have now, you often have to ask yourself whether it is really worth the risk to your body in the long run. Of course, there’s never anything wrong with indulging and enjoying yourself from time to time, but it should be done consciously and not as an everyday meal.
Soft wholemeal bread recipe with spelt flour
We already love baking our easy wholemeal bread recipe using only wholemeal spelt flour, where the crust is really delicious and the bread inside is already really tempting. However, we have also found a mixture where the wholemeal bread recipe with additional light spelt flour becomes a fluffier, softer spelt bread. The crust remains delicious, but the inside of the bread becomes a little softer and has a slightly different taste.
In our wholemeal bread recipe with wholemeal spelt flour, the bread gets really nice and dark and smells tempting. However, it doesn’t get hard, but remains somewhat tender from the crust, although the crust becomes deliciously crispy. Just right for us and just as quick to make as our classic spelt bread.
Wholemeal bread recipe with spelt flour
Equipment
- 1 stand mixer
- 1 dough scraper
- 1 loaf pan
Ingredients
- 400 g whole spelt flour
- 200 g white spelt flour
- 7 g instant yeast
- 28 g honey
- 1,5 tsp salt
- 350 ml water warm
- 45 g margarine vegetable (e.g., sunflower) soft
Recipe-Instruction
- Put the flour, yeast, honey, salt and warm water in a mixing bowl and knead for about 5 minutes. Start 5 minutes timer here400 g (3 cups) whole spelt flour7 g (1 tbsp) instant yeast28 g (2 tbsp) honey1,5 tsp (1 ½ tsp) salt350 ml (1 ½ cups) water200 g (1.5 cups) white spelt flour
- Now let the dough rest in the mixing bowl in a warm and draft-free place for an hour (cover with a fresh kitchen towel). Start 60 minutes timer here
- Now melt butter and let it cool a bit before adding it to the dough and lightly mixing in the butter.45 g (2 tbsp) margarine vegetable (e.g., sunflower)
- Now put the dough into a greased loaf pan and let it stand, covered again, for 10 minutes until the oven is preheated. Start 10 minutes timer here
- Sprinkle bread with sunflower seeds, for example, if desired.
- Place a fireproof bowl with water in the oven – alternatively fill the cake tray with about 250ml of water.
- Now let bread bake for approx. 25-30 minutes at
220 °C. Be careful when opening the oven, as a hot cloud of steam escapes each time.Start 25 minutes timer here - Let the finished bread cool for about 10 minutes, remove from the mold, brush with a little butter and continue to cool. Then wrap the bread in aluminum foil, so it stays fresh and delicious for as long as possible.
Nutrition
Another variation is our wholemeal bread recipe with walnuts as a dinner bread. It looks super elegant and tastes just as good, but the crust makes it even more crispy. The only way to make it even healthier is with our seed bread without flour and without oat flakes. Do you like baking your own bread as much as we do?
2 Responses
Wonderful! Tried it today and easy to make
Thank you so much Jodi