Oat Whole Wheat Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Grind oatmeal in a food processor or blender. In a large bowl, combine oatmeal, flour, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, dissolve honey in vegetable oil then stir in the milk. Combine both mixtures and stir until a soft dough is formed. Form the dough into a ball and place on a lightly oiled baking sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven for about 20 minutes, or until bottom of loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring water just to a simmer. Pour the water over 1 cup oats in a bowl. Stir in molasses; let stand until mixture cools to warm, 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a food processor coarsely grind 1/2 cup rolled oats. Transfer to bowl; add both flours and dry milk.
• Sprinkle oat-molasses mixture with yeast. Stir in 1 cup flour mixture, and then the salt. Stir in remaining flour mixture, 1 cup at a time.
• Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Using floured hands, knead until smooth, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer dough to a lightly oiled bowl; turn to coat. Loosely cover with plastic wrap; let dough rise in a warm spot until doubled in bulk, 1 hour. Punch down dough. Transfer to a lightly floured surface. Knead dough once or twice. Flatten into a 9-inch circle.
• Pull edges of dough up and in toward center; pinch to seal. Turn dough over. Pull down on dough with cupped hands to stretch top; pinch edges at bottom. Wrap hands around sides of dough; rotate to shape into a tight ball, 5 1/2 inches in diameter and 3 3/4 inches high. Place on oiled baking sheet, seam side down. Cover with oiled plastic wrap. Let rise until dough doubles in bulk, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Score an "X" in top of dough. Brush with egg white; sprinkle remaining oats. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven to 350 degrees. Bake, rotating sheet halfway through, until bottom sounds hollow when tapped, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.

Steps:

• Porridge
• Melt the butter in a small sauce pan, add the flaked oats and wheat (or just flaked oats), and stir to combine.
• Add the milk and cook on low heat for a few minutes.
• Turn off the heat and leave the porridge covered to cool and absorb any remaining milk.
• Autolyse
• Mix together the flour and water until they are thoroughly combined. Cover and let sit for about an hour.
• Mixing, Gluten Development, and Bulk Fermentation
• Add the sourdough starter and salt to the dough by gently folding and kneading it in. Cover and let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
• Laminate the dough to add the cooled porridge to it. The photo gallery below and a video in this article show how to laminate dough.
• Do two rounds of gluten development with 30-minute rests in between. I recommend stretching and folding for both rounds to spread the porridge more evenly through the dough. Add more rounds if your oat porridge seems very clumpy after the second round.
• Let the dough continue to rise for a few hours until it has increased in size by 60-70%. My dough fermented for a total of 5.5 hours in warm temps (low 80s) on a Raisenne dough heating pad. Depending on your starter strength and dough temperature, the first rise may be shorter or longer.
• Shaping and Topping
• Scrape your dough out of the bowl onto a lightly floured work surface.
• Gently stretch the dough outward a bit and then shape it into a batard, boule, or oblong loaf depending on your proofing basket shape.
• Evenly spread the 1/2 cup optional flaked oats on your work surface in the shape of the dough (round, oval, oblong). Brush or spray water on the top of your dough and flip it onto the oats to coat the dough surface. Then place the dough oat-side down in your proofing basket. Scoop up some of the extra oats and "drizzle" them down the edges of the dough to further coat it and prevent sticking.
• Final Proof
• Numerous proofing strategies are valid for this dough (and all doughs). I proofed at room temperature for 30 minutes, and then in the refrigerator for 12 hours. This increases the sourness of the bread a bit compared with shorter, all-room temperature proofing. I baked the dough straight from the refrigerator without warming it up first. If you want to proof the dough entirely at room temperature; 1-2 hours should be sufficient for the dough to rise 1-2 cm up the sides of the basket. (See the photo gallery below for target dough expansion.)
• Baking
• Preheat your oven and baking vessel to 500F for at least 30 minutes.
• Flip the dough out of the proofing basket and onto a sheet of parchment paper or onto the base of your hot baking vessel.
• Score the dough. This is easiest to do with scissors rather than trying to saw through the oats with a lame blade, then cover and return the vessel to the oven.
• If your baking vessel is made of ceramic/clay, bake at:
• 500°F for 20 minutes, lid on
• 450°F for 5 minutes, lid on
• 450°F for 10 minutes, lid off
• If your baking vessel is cast iron, bake at:
• 500°F for 15 minutes, lid on. At the 15-minute mark, place a baking sheet directly under the cast iron on the same shelf. This will prevent the base of the bread from burning.
• 450°F for 10 minutes, lid on
• 450°F for 10 minutes, lid off
• When baking is complete, the bread should have an internal temperature of at least 205F and it should sound hollow when you knock on the bottom of the loaf.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, heat water, milk, oil, honey and molasses to a simmer; stir in oats. Remove from heat; cool mixture to 120°-130°. In a large bowl, mix 4 cups bread flour, yeast and salt. Stir in cooled oat mixture. Stir in spelt flour and enough remaining bread flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky)., Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap; let rest 10 minutes., Divide dough in half. Roll each into a 12x8-in. rectangle. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a short side; pinch seam and ends to seal. Place in greased 9x5-in. loaf pans, seam side down., Cover with kitchen towels; let rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350°., Bake until golden brown, 40-45 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely.Freeze option: Securely wrap cooled loaves in plastic, then place in resealable plastic freezer bags to freeze. To use, thaw at room temperature.

Steps:

• Heat milk in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart saucepan over low heat until hot but not boiling, then remove pan from heat and stir in oats. Let stand, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until cooled to warm.
• Stir together water, yeast, and 1 teaspoon honey in a small bowl; let stand until foamy, 5 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.) Stir yeast mixture, melted butter, and remaining honey into cooled oatmeal.
• Stir together whole-wheat flour, 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour, and salt in a large bowl. Add oat mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until a soft dough forms. Turn out onto a well-floured surface and knead with floured hands, adding just enough of remaining unbleached flour to keep from sticking, until dough is smooth, soft, and elastic, about 10 minutes (dough will be slightly sticky). Form dough into a ball and transfer to an oiled large bowl, turning to coat. Cover bowl loosely with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel; let rise at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Lightly butter loaf pans. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead several times to remove air. Divide dough in half and shape each half into a loaf, then place 1 loaf in each buttered pan, seam side down, tucking ends gently to fit. Cover loaf pans loosely with a kitchen towel and let dough rise in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly brush tops of loaves with some of egg wash and sprinkle with oats, then bake until bread is golden and loaves sound hollow when tapped on bottom, 35 to 40 minutes. (Remove 1 loaf from pan to test for doneness. Run a knife around edge of pan to loosen.)
• Remove bread from pans and transfer to a rack to cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours.