Walnut Bread

Ingredients

• 500 g whole wheat flour
• 1 packet dry yeast
• 10 g raw cane sugar (1 tsp)
• 2 sprigs Rosemary
• 150 g walnuts
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp salt
• Pepper
• 50 ml milk (1.5% fat)
• 50 ml olive oil

Instructions

1. 1.

   Mix flour, yeast and sugar in a mixing bowl.

2. 2.

   Mix 250 ml lukewarm water with the kneading hooks of the hand mixer until an even dough lump is formed. Let it rise in a warm place covered for about 30 minutes.

3. 3.

   In the meantime, rinse rosemary, shake dry, pluck and chop the needles.

4. 4.

   Toast walnuts briefly in a non-stick pan. Mix honey and rosemary, warm and season with salt and pepper and put on a plate.

5. 5.

   Heat milk lukewarm, then mix with oil into the dough. Knead the nut-honey mixture until everything is connected and the dough lump is shiny and smooth.

6. 6.

   Shape the dough into an elongated loaf and place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Let it rise covered in a warm place for about 20 minutes. Bake in a preheated oven at 220 °C (convection: 200 °C, gas: level 3–4) in the middle rack for about 40 minutes.