So a new month, a new theme for Bread Baking Day. For this 14th edition Boaz from Grain Power choose "Colored Breads" and that's colored without any artificial stuff. A wide choice available; carrots, beetroot, spinach, squash, saffron, tomato, cocoa, coffee.... that took some thinking.
Finally I decided to make a light green bread with pistachio nuts. I thought the color would be a bit greener, but it turned out to be a beautiful shade of light green. I thought about baking another bread with tomatoes, but I just didn't have the time. So light green it is. Wonderful small breads with soft crumb and delicious nutty taste.
Pistachio Nut Rolls
(9 rolls)
250 g whole spelt flour
20 g fresh yeast (or 1 1/2 tsp dry yeast)
1 TBsp sugar
270-310 g warm water
180 g ground pistachio nuts (without shell of course and if possible without skins* too)
40 g butter
1 tsp salt
1 small egg, whisked
Place the flours in a large mixing bowl, make a well in the center and add the yeast, sugar and 100 g water, stir it around in the well and leave for 5 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients (except the egg) and knead into a smooth dough. Don't add all the water at once, but make sure the dough is not too stiff (the bread will turn out too dry then). Place in a greased bowl, cover and let rise for 1 hour.
Divide the dough in 9 equal pieces. Take about 1/5 of each piece and shape the large and smaller parts into balls. Flatten the large balls, place them on a baking sheet with parchment paper, make a little dent in the middle with your finger and place the smaller ball on top. Make the rest in the same manner. Cover with greased plastic and let rise for about 40 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 410ºF. Brush lightly with the eggwash and place the rolls (on a stone or baking sheet) in the oven, make some steam in your oven by misting it or pouring some hot water in a tray at the bottom that's preheated too. And bake the rolls for about 15-18 minutes.
*TIP: you can peel the skins off the nuts, by placing them in boiling water for 5 minutes. You can (most of the time) press them out of their skins with a cloth. It is a lot of work, but I think it's worth it.
If you don't feel like doing that, you can use the nuts with their skins on (and I don't mean the hard peels of course), you can grind the nuts with the skins. The colour will be different though. I made them before with their skins on and they look like the ones on the picture here on the right. They taste good too, but a little less delicate.
(adapted from: "Brot aus Südtirol"- Richard Ploner)
Bread Baking Day nr. 14
(9 broodjes)
250 g volkoren spelt bloem
20 g verse gist (of 1 1/2 tl droge gist)
1 el suiker
270-310 g warm water
180 g gemalen pistache nootjes (zonder pel en het lieftst ook zonder vliesje)
40 g boter
1 tl zout
1 klein ei, geklutst
Doe beide melen in een grote (mixer)mengkom, maak een kuil in het midden en voeg de gist, suiker en 100 g water toe. Roer het in het kuiltje door elkaar (met een beetje bloem dan van de zijkanten meekomt) en laat het 5 minuten staan. Doe nu de overige ingrediënten (behalve het ei) erbij en kneed het tot een soepel deeg. Voeg het water er niet in één keer aan toe, maar kijk hoeveel je nodig hebt om een soepel (niet te stijf deeg te krijgen). Maak er een bol van en leg het deeg in een ingevette kom en dek af met plastic. Laat het een uur rijzen.
Verwarm de oven voor op 210ºC. Bestrijk de bolletjes met het geklopte ei en zet ze in de oven (eventueel op een ovensteen). Spray wat water in de oven (of giet heet water in een meeverwarmd bakje op de bodem van de oven) om zo wat stoom te krijgen. Bak de bolletjes 15-18 minuten tot ze goudbruin en gaar zijn.
Eet smakelijk!
7 comments:
I wish I could have baked for this one.
Would there be contrast enough to get the red and green to do these for Christmas? It would seem this would make a really grand turkey sandwich bread or roll!
Ciao Lien ! I went green too but mine was very far to be so nice !!!
what a nice idea; I think I prefer the taste of pistache in bread instead of spinach.
Groene broodjes- schitterend!
Mooi modelletje ook..om zó in te bijten :-)
De broodjes zijn bij mij ook mooi geworden en smaken ook nog eens heerlijk....
Monica
@Tanna, I think you'd have to use more pistachio's to get it greener (like 250 g) to get a more chrismass-y green. But tastewise I think with turkey would be a good combination.
@ Natalia, I loved your cavolo nero bread, That would taste great with some sliced grilled meat I think
@ Marjoke, me too, but spinach would have made it greener.
@ Mar1, dat hebben we ook snel gedaan :-)
@Monica, wat leuk dat je ze ook gemaakt hebt en dat ze in de smaak vielen.
It's gorgeous !Very good !
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