Best Rye Bread Recipe Uk

This overnight rye bread is an easier version of a northern European classic, made with whole grain spelt and rye flour, cocoa, and oats. This dense bread is not at all dry and makes a nice alternative to light loaves, with a stronger flavour and slightly chewy texture.

I love overnight bread. It’s much easier to make than normal homemade bread, without any kneading necessary – you just mix everything together in a bowl, let it sit overnight, and then bake it in the morning. This is a typical north German rye bread, dark and slightly sour.

How

The usual problem is that it’s usually baked in a dutch oven or lidded ceramic dish and involves somedough folding and sitting in a tea towel in the morning after it’s risen overnight, which I find detracts a bit from the simplicity of the method.

Dark Rye Bread

The dough rises a second time in the pan you bake it in, so you don’t need to worry about proper folding technique or anything like that. All you have to do is mix it the night before, dump it in a loaf pan, and bake it. No kneading, no folding, no special equipment.

Despite the lack of work that goes into this bread, the crust is surprisingly crispy, and the inside of the loaf is soft and tender. It also lasts longer than other homemade breads, and it keeps for at least a week sitting on the counter, wrapped well.

If you like the idea of rye bread but don’t want to go all the way to a dark rye, try this overnight spelt rye bread instead, or sourdough rye bread if you prefer a natural yeast version.

German Bread (authentic Vollkornbrot)

Please note that the darker photos are made with regular cocoa powder and yeast, and the lighter bread is made with sourdough starter and natural cacao. The step-by-step photos are sourdough, so if you want to see the steps for the yeast method, please watch the recipe video.

See the recipe card notes for instructions on how to make this into a sourdough loaf. The step-by-step photos show the sourdough method because the video shows it made with yeast, so in the interest of maximum information, I wanted to include both.

1. Add wet ingredients: add the water, maple syrup, and active starter to a large bowl. The starter should float. If using fresh yeast, add it now.

Borodinsky Rye Bread

3. Add dry ingredients: stir in the flours, oats, cocoa, and salt. Add the dry yeast now if using that method and stir into a shaggy dough.

4. Rise: cover with a plate, board, or tea towel, and set it into a room temperature, draft free place for about 12 hours.

5. Transfer: once the dough as risen, place it into a well greased or parchment lined bread tin. It will lose volume here.

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Julia's Black Rye Bread

6. Rise: cover the loaf with a tea towel and set it into a draft-free place to rise again for a couple of hours. The dough should be expanded but not quite doubled after this time.

Like most darker whole grain breads and sourdough loaves, this one needs to rest for a significant amount of time before slicing. The recipe states to let it cool completely – that may mean several hours or even overnight. If you want really nice clean slices I recommend letting the baked loaf sit overnight in a tea towel before slicing the following day.

If you want to make this into a boule, you’ll have to introduce some stretches and folds. I recommend 4 rounds, starting directly after mixing. After the dough has risen overnight, shape it as you usually would and place it into a well floured banneton. Bake in a dutch oven 30 minutes covered and another 15-20 minutes uncovered, at 230°C (450°F).

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The dark colour and traditional dark rye flavour here come from the whole grain flours and cocoa powder. It’s not quite a German black bread, which I grew up with, but this style of rye bread is also very common in northern Germany (where I lived) and Scandinavia (though it is hard to find in Gothenburg). If you feel that the cocoa will make it too bitter – though that is kind of the point – you can leave it out, no problem.

Storage: the bread keeps well, wrapped in a tea towel, for about a week. The crust will harden slightly but the middle will still be fresh. You can also use a bread bin or sealed container, but I don’t recommend storing this in a plastic bag.

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Freezing: this loaf freezes spectacularly, and I highly recommend having some in the freezer at all times. Freeze the whole loaf or pre-slice and take out individual pieces to toast, but either way it’s well worth freezing some in an airtight container.

German Rye Wheat Bread With Sourdough: Mischbrot ⋆ My German Recipes

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• To make this bread with a sourdough starter, simply stir in 100 grams (1/2 cup) of your active starter into the water to replace the commercial yeast. Follow the other directions as written. This is my standard now when making this bread and the results are virtually identical. You will get a more sour flavour and a more noticeable oven spring using a starter. Do not use both yeast and starter, it’s one or the other.

* If you grease the pan, it might seem like your bread is stuck to it. Don’t worry, it’s likely that just the very top of the loaf is sticking slightly to the very top of the pan (where it might not have been greased) and all you have to do is gently lift with your fingers or a butterknife. The bread should pop out of the pan easily if you pull the sides slightly and tap on the bottom.

Emmer Bread With Pumpkin Seeds And Black Barley Malt

Serving: 1 Calories: 195 kcal Carbohydrates: 40 g Protein: 8 g Fat: 2 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g Sodium: 270 mg Fiber: 7 g Sugar: 5 g

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Nutrition is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate. If this information is important to you, please have it verified independently.

This post was originally shared in October 2016. It has been updated most recently as of January 2023 with no changes to the recipeThere is no reason the Scandis should call dibs on this distinctive, flavoursome loaf, so here is a recipe for a simple, everyday rye. But should you mix this hardy grain with another flour? And what is the right way to get a good rise?

Easy German Rye Bread With Yeast (roggenbrot)

I f December is a month of sweetly spiced, buttery breads, January seems to be the time for rye, with its bright, sharp flavour and darkly wholesome good looks. This hardy grass, which grows well at cool, damp latitudes, was once a more common material for bread-making on these islands than the more temperamental wheat. Despite its high protein and fibre content, however, it was always reckoned distinctly inferior in quality both due to its low gluten content – which makes for a heavier, denser loaf – and thanks to ergot, a potentially fatal fungal disease associated with the crop (the last outbreak in Britain struck Manchester’s Jewish population as late as 1927).

Elsewhere in Europe, it never fell from favour. One of the great pleasures of travelling in Scandinavia, Germany and points further east is the array of breads in various dark shades, often generously seeded or speckled with grains, laid out at breakfast. They taste like they’re doing you good, and I mean that in the best way.

While it’s perfectly possible to buy decent rye bread in most supermarkets – shrink-wrapped, sour and crumbly (and infinitely nicer toasted, in my opinion) – it’s a bit more difficult to find the really good kind. Rye has a bit of a reputation as a baking bad boy but, once you know how to treat it, it’s easy to make a full-flavoured, long-lasting loaf that’s as delicious with butter and marmalade as it is with pickled herring and dill.

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Homemade Rye Bread Recipe

Many so-called rye breads are actually a mixture of rye and wheat, or some other grain that’s easier to get a rise out of. Signe Johansen uses equal parts rye and white bread flour in the Danish pumpernickel recipe in her book, Scandilicious Baking, while Dane Trine Hahnemann goes for a 2:1 ratio of rye to wheat in Scandinavian Baking. Nigel Slater, meanwhile, balances his rye with wholemeal spelt, then adds a quarter as much white bread flour on top. I also try two 100% rye recipes, from Paul Hollywood and the Leiths Baking Bible.

The wheat makes a very visible difference. Put it this way: if I were hoping to break a window, or prop open a heavy door, I wouldn’t choose Slater or Johansen’s loaves, which could almost pass for ordinary – if unusually tasty – wholemeal. The all-rye variants have a noticeably tighter