A miracle would be great right about now. The past six months have been stressful because of my hounds. It started back in September when Tiger was sick and had his spleen removed. Then Lexie collapsed and we discovered she has heart disease. Now Trixie is very sick. She has mitral valve disease plus a severe immune-mediated disease which is causing autoimmune hemolytic anemia. I’ve spent lots of time at the vet and waiting for tests to be done. One time while waiting on an ultrasound, I went to a store to pass the time. I spotted something I had not seen before and bought it to give it a try. It’s been in my pantry until I finally got a chance to use it. Amaranth Banana Nut Bread is what I made with the package of tiny seeds.
Amaranth seeds are considered a superfood. They are loaded with nutrients, protein, lysine (amino acid), rich in fiber, and gluten-free. Most of the time they are cooked by either boiling in water or popped like popcorn. The boiled type is what is used in the bread. The seeds never totally soften on the outside when boiled so they still has a bit of pop or crunch when eating them.
How is the bread? It’s moist and dense. There are two crunch factors, one from chopped walnuts and the other from amaranth seeds. Banana flavor shines through in each bite. My favorite way to eat a slice is to warm or toast it lightly and drizzle honey on it.
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Trixie’s illness has caused her to have no appetite. We try everything to get her to eat. Your probably would not believe what all we have tried. Some days we have to feed her liquid food with a syringe. Other days she eats a few bites of food on her own. She will eat a little of something then turn her nose up and won’t eat it again. She did eat some of this bread. Thank goodness it has the healthy seeds, whole wheat flour, nuts, honey, eggs, and banana in it.
Each day is a fight for Trixie’s life. She is very weak. We are doing everything we can to get her well. She’s had a couple of blood transfusions and is on several medications. All we can do is keep at it and have plenty of hope. She’s such a sweetie and I want only to see her happy, healthy, strong, and playing again. So a miracle really would be great. Send one my way if you can.
Bread Bakers theme this month is seeds. It is what gave me the opportunity to use my amaranth. Our host is Karen of Karen’s Kitchen Stories. Scroll down to see the list of breads baked for the theme. Also check out Purple Snow Peas with Sunflower Seeds for a quick and easy side dish featuring seeds, and this Sorghum Flour Banana Bread for another ancient grain option.
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Amaranth Banana Nut Quick Bread is moist, hearty, and healthy. It is made with whole wheat flour, bananas, walnuts, eggs, honey, and amaranth seeds.
It’s getting mighty seedy with Bread Bakers. It’s because the bakers have been busy baking bread with seeds. Take a look at these wonderful recipes:
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Your post made me choke up. I will definitely send good vibes your and your dogs' ways. I hope you get that miracle you're looking for.
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Beautiful bread! I hope I find amaranth seeds soon so that I could give this bread a try. Sorry to hear about your dogs and I hope Trixie feels better soon. Sending her my prayers and to you too!
That months you've been with your dogs, I hope Trixie is better. The bread looks delicious, I must find amaranth seeds to test your wonderful recipeA few years ago, I wrote an Einkorn and Amaranth Porridge Sourdough Bread recipe. While porridge adds a wonderful waxy-damp hydration to the crumb of a bread, sometimes I want a more simple process: no porridge making and no step of adding the porridge to the dough during the second stretch and fold.
In this new recipe, I milled the amaranth in my Mockmill and changed up the ratios of the flours and water. I was amazed at the fresh aroma and delicious flavor that came through with the fresh amaranth flour at only 16% of the flour weight. The einkorn flour, also fresh-milled and 16% of the flour weight, complemented the amaranth with a sweeter and nuttier fragrance.
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Amaranth is an ancient “pseudo-grain” or seed, originally cultivated in Mesoamerica. It’s high in protein and relatively drought resistant. Einkorn is an ancient wheat, likely the first grown by humans, almost halfway around the world in Mesopotamia. It’s also high in protein and it has more cancer-fighting carotenoids than many grains. Check out the original Einkorn and Amaranth Porridge Sourdough Bread recipe for more history and nutrition information.
I mixed all of the ingredients together at once and I didn’t autolyse the dough, but I did perform aggressive gluten development maneuvers. I actually laminated the dough twice in a row about an hour after mixing. It was very slack and tolerated this fine, but had my schedule permitted, I would’ve laminated at the 30- and 60-minute marks with a rest in between. After the second lamination, I let the dough rest a half hour before doing three rounds of coil folding at 20-40 minute intervals. Here are videos of laminating and coil folding:
If you decide to skip the laminating steps, which take place on a clean wet surface, add 10-20g more water during mixing.
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Given the high percentage of bread flour in the dough (68% of the total flour weight) and the good gluten development, the dough bubbled nicely toward the end of the bulk fermentation (photo on the right). In a warm-lit oven, this dough fermented about 4 1/2 hours.
I started this dough on a snowy morning and was excited to bake that same day to warm up my house, so I let the dough proof at room temperature for about 70 minutes. Then to stiffen the dough for an easier transfer to the baking vessel, I put the proofing basket in the freezer for an additional 20 minutes. (You can see the beginning and end of the final proof in the photos above.)
The resulting bread smells amazing and tastes great too. This dough was a little dryer and more manageable than the porridge recipe dough, making for a slightly tighter crumb and lovely bloom to the score.
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Amaranth and einkorn add fresh and delicious flavors to this sourdough bread, along with extra protein, minerals and carotenoids. The aroma of the dough is captivating and doesn't fade away when the bread is baked, giving you a tasty new bread experience.
Every couple weeks or so, we send out a little roundup of new recipes, techniques, and tutorials that we’ve recently posted on the site. Occasionally we announce exclusive giveaways to newsletter subscribers as well. We won’t spam you with ads or share or sell your email address. Every email we send has a 1-click unsubscribe link if you decide it’s not for you.I’ve finally got hold of amaranth! After putting down my thoughts on healthy bread last week, I wanted to dedicate this week’s post to another health-related topic and highlight the benefits of the nutritious amaranth plant, its seeds and flour. The amaranth plant, once a staple of the Aztec and Inca diet, produces seeds packed full of protein and nutrients. Amaranth seeds contain even more protein than oats and are brimming with iron, calcium, vitamin B, magnesium and zinc. This is therefore another healthy bread recipe for the start of the year; my amaranth bread recipe based on long fermentation, enhanced in its nutritional value by added pumpkin seeds and walnuts.
Amaranth is a member of the Chenopodiaceae family of plants which means it’s a relative of beets, spinach and quinoa. For this reason, some of its nutritional characteristics are more related to these vegetables than cereal grain foods, which are members of an entirely different plant family.
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The word ‘Amaranth’ is derived from the Greek term ‘amarantos’meaning ‘unwithering’.Amaranth is also known as ‘Love-Lies-Bleeding’ due to its brightly coloured flowery head. Amaranth flour recipes
Both amaranth seeds and flour can be used for baking. Due to its mild, nutty flavour amaranth flour produces relatively plain breads and I’ve enhanced my amaranth bread
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