Follow a few simple rules, learn some how-to tips and tricks for making homemade whole wheat bread recipes, and bread making will become second nature. Be one with the bread! You will find below 15 Easy Whole Wheat Bread Recipes to try with the family!
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Whole Wheat Bread
These whole wheat bread recipes use some ingredients that may or may not look familiar to you. They can all be purchased in a natural food store, health food cooperative, buying club, or a major supermarket chain. These recipes might also mention vital wheat gluten, instant yeast, kneading bread by hand, mixer or bread machine, and which oven temperature to use, so let’s have a look at what they are.
What is Vital Wheat Gluten?
Vital wheat gluten is dried and milled to a powder and usually added to ordinary flour dough. This improves the whole-grain dough to rise and helps the bread’s texture and chewiness. These heavy doughs must be worked vigorously if they are to rise to the top of the pan. Kneading heavy bread by hand would be laborious and tiring, so a bread machine or stand mixer would be useful for this process. Bread flour is the ideal flour to use for bread making as it has a higher percentage of gluten already in it.
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Using Instant Dry Yeast To Make Whole Wheat Bread
There are three popular types of yeast for baking for making bread. Active dry yeast like the Fleischmann’s yeast sold in little packets. Bakers yeast, which is a live wet yeast sold in blocks in the grocery store’s refrigerated aisle. Instant dry yeast made by Saf-instant yeast. Once instant yeast is opened, it should be sealed in an airtight container and stored in the refrigerator or freezer.
This is the yeast used in most modern commercial recipes. Because it’s instant yeast, it doesn’t have to be dissolved in water first. Saf-instant yeast gets added to the rest of the dry ingredients and mixed and kneaded into the bread dough. Also, by using instant yeast, the final bread dough only has to rise once. No more punching down the dough and waiting for it to rise a second time.
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Kneading Bread By Hand, Mixer or Bread Machine
Because whole grain bread doughs are usually heavy, and most batches make four loaves, it would be easier to use a stand mixer or a bread machine. The whole wheat bread dough can be kneaded by hand. It will take approximately 10-15 minutes or so of heavy kneading with the heels of the hands to develop the dough fully. If using a bread machine, check the manufactures’ instructions.
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Oven Temperatures And Bread Machines
Bread baked in loaf pans generally bakes at lower temperatures (350-375 degrees F.) for a longer period of time (30-45 minutes). Hearth bread that is baked in brick ovens or on stones is baked at higher temperatures (400-450 degrees F.) for shorter periods of time (25-40 minutes) depending on how large the loaf is and how heavy the dough. Always check the recipe before baking. If using a bread machine, check the manufactures’ instructions on how to bake it.
15 Easy Whole Wheat Bread Recipes
No-knead whole wheat olive bread (easy and yummy!) – The Curious Frugal
This no-knead olive bread is made with whole wheat flour and is super flavorful and hearty. It takes only minutes of prep and no mixer required!
Authentic French Whole Wheat Baguette with 3 Ingredients (vegan, wfpb) – Ve Eat Cook Bake
Are you in the mood for a delicious whole wheat baguette that is so authentic that you feel like you’re at a French bakery? Or you do not want to go to the next Panera and buy some whole grain baguette?
How To Make Irresistible Whole Wheat Bread Your Family Will Love
An easy whole wheat bread machine recipe has the rich flavour of whole wheat, the delicate sweetness of honey, and the soft fluffiness of white sandwich bread. This irresistible homemade honey whole wheat bread is simply the best.
This no-fail wholemeal bread recipe uses just a few ingredients and is perfect for beginner bakers. Ideal nutritient-dense bread for sandwiches and toasts.
Flaky on the outside and soft on the inside, this homemade Italian bread recipe is easy to make and it will allow you to make your homemade bread by hand.
These soft and fluffy dinner rolls are 100% whole grain and stay softer than most white rolls for several days! Perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Thanks. A Nice Collection of Whole Wheat Breads. I have pinned it.
Thank you for pinning it!
There are so many variety here, I would like to try the Whole Wheat Honey Oat Bread and Whole Wheat Rolls – Soft and Fluffy Dinner Rolls.
Those are my favourites too, that’s why I choose them lol!
I like the variety of recipes and will try the whole wheat rolls.
I love trying out new bread recipes with different grains.