Sunday, February 28, 2010

HBin5: 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Olive Oil

It's time again for the next "Healthy Bread in 5" assignment.  This week's project was a triplet:  100% Whole Wheat Bread with Olive Oil, Aloo Paratha and Southwest Foccacia with Roasted Corn and Goat Cheese.

I decided to keep it simple this week and only bake the 100% Whole Wheat bread.  I wasn't sure if my husband and I would like the other two recipes, so I'll wait and see what the other bloggers say about them.

The 100% Whole Wheat Bread turned out terrific.  It was very easy to mix up, and it rose beautifully after an overnight stay in the refrigerator.  But instead of olive oil, I ended up using grapeseed oil.  Turns out that we ran out of olive oil, and I didn't realize it until I opened up the kitchen cupboards and it was gone.  My husband likes to experiment with different cooking oils, so I gave the grapeseed oil a try. 



I definitely liked the results.  The crust was nice and chewy, and the interior was surprisingly moist for a whole wheat bread.  I'll definitely bake up this loaf again.

Please join me in visiting Big Black Dog to see how the other HBin5 bloggers fared with this week's recipes.  I'm always so impressed by how beautiful their breads turn out.  I'm learning a lot from them!

12 comments:

  1. I'm so impressed you had such success with making a loaf out of this dough. It looks beautiful! hmmm.. grapeseed oil. I've never heard of that. Sounds good!

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  2. I've never used grapeseed oil in bread. I'm glad you liked this loaf.

    Your's looks absolutely beautiful

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  3. Your loaf looks good. I've never seen grapeseed oil before.

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  4. You got wonderful results! So glad to hear that after reading about folks who couldn't get a good rise on our group site!

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  5. I've never used grapeseed oil. I'll have to try it. I loved this dough as well. Definitely one of my favorites and very versatile.

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  6. oooh....grapeseed oil. that sounds wonderful

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  7. I've never had grapeseed oil before. When I've had recipes that call for it, I've just substituted with what I have. I wonder what the difference in flavor was in your bread? It looks beautiful.

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  8. I'm so glad to have another person on my side here. I loved the bread as well! yours looks great.

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  9. Your loaf looks great! I will have to bake it. I did enjoy the items i made with the dough very much and the olive oil came through with an amazing flavor.

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  10. Great idea to use different oils. I always use the same but that could really help the taste. Great job!

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  11. We really liked this bread as well. Loved the aloo paratha and would recommend it!
    ~Jenny~

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  12. Gorgeous load of bread! I added some sourdough starter to one of my batches and wow...was that good!

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