hello and welcome back to in the kitchen with Matt I am your host Matt Taylor today I'm
gonna show you how to make a whole-wheat bread.
I had a request to make a whole meal or whole wheat bread
so here we go there's a simple easy recipe for whole-wheat bread it's really easy to
do if I can do it you can do it let's get baking.
First let's go ahead and start our yeast we want to make sure our yeast is good start
with our water down below I'll list all the ingredients in the amounts this is 2 and 3/4
cups of water and we want to heat the water up to about 105 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit
we want the water nice and hot to activate the
yeast and now I'm going to add some sugar this is a couple of teaspoons of sugar this
is going to be food for the yeast I'm gonna take a fork and just agitate
that a little bit and then 2 tablespoons of active dry yeast okay I'm just gonna agitate
it a little bit now we just want to let this sit and let though
yeast do its thing and let's let it sit for 8 to 10 minutes and it's gonna get all nice
and frothy or foamy if it doesn't do that and then the yeast is bad or your waters too
cold or your water is too hot so you need to start over.
alright let's just let it sit and get nice and foamy
all right look how nice and foamy this
is I can tell my yeast is active it's
thriving all right now let's start
adding more of our ingredients 1/3 cup
of oil I'm using canola oil but you can
use any oil really olive oil vegetable
oil and now I have a couple tablespoons
of maple syrup here or you could use
molasses and also about 1/3 cup of honey
now I'm gonna go ahead and take this
wooden spoon let's just give this a nice
little stir and now I want to start
incorporating my flour I have seven and
a half cups of whole wheat flour and
we're not going to dump it all in we're
just gonna start adding a bit of at a
time until we get a nice dough to work
with so I'm going to start with Oh about
a cup and a half worth
all right great that's more
now if you are doing this in a
KitchenAid mixer obviously you'd be
using your kitchen table bolt mixer bowl
I still don't have a KitchenAid most
likely I'll get one at some point
now I had someone laugh at me one time
in one of my videos I think my cinnamon
roll video for holding my wooden spoon
like this the reason why I do this makes
your arm act like a mixer so whoever
said that there you go
if you hold it like this that's a pain
to do that way this is so much easier
though starting to come together now I'm
going to add some more flour here and
then at this point I'm going to add my
salt tablespoon of salt
got some flour falling out great I'm
just coming together very nicely now
once it's a to hard to work with if
you're doing this by hand hard this to
hard to stir let's go ahead it's
probably still gonna be sticky it's okay
and we're going to just start to use our
hands with it so we're gonna need it
just a little bit inside the bowl add
some more of our flour and then let's
just go ahead and pour all out onto our
table or countertop whatever your work
surface is and let's just start to hand
me this and we'll start incorporating
more of this flour so you start with
your seven and a half cups that's what
you have measured out but likely you're
use a lot less of it and normally when
I'm not doing this on camera I am
standing up and doing this on the
countertop in case you're gonna laugh at
me for baking while sitting down okay so
we're just gonna keep kneading and
adding more flour and we're gonna do
this for eight minutes so I'll come back
when that's all done here we go our
dough is nice and ready to go it's nice
and springy be careful don't like I said
don't throw all your flour in I've
listed seven and a half cups because you
might use up to that much but most
likely you're gonna wind up using only
about six cups to six and a half so as
you can see I have about a cup a cup and
a half left of flour here and we'll use
a little bit of this later but for the
main dough this is ready to go now I
took a large bowl this is actually the
bowl I normally make the bread in and I
just put a little bit of oil and got the
sides in it and I'm gonna just put this
dough in here and just coat it a little
bit just a step I like to do that helps
keep the dough from drying out I'll put
in the bowl and then take a damp cloth
and just place it over now we're not to
sit with the dough rise for about an
hour hour and a half and it's gonna get
nice probably pretty much doubles in
size alright it's been about an hour I'm
gonna go ahead and check it yeah yeah
look at that
I always get excited to see that my
dough has risen all right I'm just gonna
punch it down a little bit and it's
gonna get back to almost the original
size and then I'm gonna just drop it out
there nice soft dough and then use a
dough cutter or a knife let's just go
ahead and cut it in half then all we're
gonna take a piece and if you use that
oil you're probably not going to need
any extra flour because it's not going
to be very sticky and we're just gonna
kind of roll it a little bit so it
shapes it and then use your hands
underneath and curl it about like that
and we're gonna take our bread pan this
is a 9 by 5 red pin so it's a large one
and then I use some Crisco shortening on
the inside there and just drop it in and
then take a piece of plastic wrap and I
just sprayed this lightly
on the inside here with some kitchen
spray I'm just going to lay that over
gently there and then I'll lay my cloth
back on top
and then we're going to let this dough
rise again for about another hour and
it's gonna get about doubled in size and
then we can bake it alright it's been
about an hour go ahead and check on our
bread nice it rose beautifully exactly
what we want to see now what we're gonna
do is we're gonna go ahead and put these
in a preheated oven 350 degrees
Fahrenheit 176 Celsius and we are gonna
bake them for 35 to 40 minutes they're
gonna get nice and golden brown
then when you thump on them with your
finger it'll sound nice and Hollow all
right under that step I'll show you what
they look like when they are done all
right when you take them out of the oven
they'll look something like this
they may or may not have a nice little
dome shape on the top just the pins
alright so what we want to do is we just
want to let them sit and cool in the pan
for a little bit and then what we can do
is come in here and we're just going to
take them out looking nice
and let them cool the rest of the way
before slicing into one of them alright
let's go ahead and slice into this one
nice look at that nice whole-wheat bread
all right our whole wheat bread is done
turned out fantastic really easy to do
simple ingredients if I can do it you
can do it I'm Matt Taylor this has been
another episode of in the kitchen with
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slice oh yeah
I wound up putting a little bit of
butter on this