Healthy Sweet Potato Bread
This beautiful healthy sweet potato bread recipe is another addition to my list of bread recipes with vegetable extracts in it. Healthy sweet potato bread combines the health benefits of whole wheat and sweet potatoes in it.
Servings: 1 Loaf
Ingredients
- 300 gm Whole Wheat Flour
- 100 gm All Purpose Flour
- 150 gm Sweet Potato Boiled and Mashed
- 1 tsp Active Dry Yeast Prime
- 1 tsp Organic Brown Sugar
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 1 tbs Oil
- 290 ml Water
Instructions
- In a bowl add lukewarm water. Add sugar and yeast. Stir it and let it rest until it froth.
- In another bowl take flours, salt and sweet potatoes. Add yeast solution.
- Start kneading the dough by adding water and prepare a soft dough.
- Take the dough on counter. Add oil and knead it for 5 min.
- After 5 min of kneading dough will become soft and smooth. Now place the dough in greased bowl and cover it with cling wrap.
- Place the bowl at a dry and warm place. Let it rest until dough becomes double.
- When dough becomes double, punch it to release the air.
- Using a rolling pin, roll it into a rectangular sheet and shape it like a loaf.
- Place the shaped loaf in a greased loaf tin facing seam side down.
- Cover it with cling wrap and let it rest until it again becomes double in volume.
- Preheat the oven at 200 °C for 10 min.
- Brush the dough with water and bake in preheated oven for 35 min.
- When baked, take the bread out from oven. Demould it and place it on cooling rack.
- Let the bread rest for minimum 2 hrs before you slice.
Notes
- In case you don’t have brown sugar, you can use regular sugar.
- If bread is browning fast, cover it with aluminium foil and continue to bake.
- You can brush the dough with milk as well before baking.
- Water amount can vary depending upon the quality of flour. So adjust accordingly.
- Baking time can vary from oven to oven.