Potato Rye Loaf
I love all things yeast....I have an entire pinterest board about yeast to ‘prove' it! (‘Scuse the pun!)
There are lots of ways to add flavour to your average loaf. Adding my Powdered Malt is one way, adding different grains and seeds, or using a little rye flour, spelt flour, oats, quinoa etc will also add character to your loaves. Steaming the loaf pre baking creates a crispy crust. (Cue the steam oven, but there are other ways around this; another recipe in For Foods Sake steams the bread in the Varoma prior to baking.)
Anyhoo, I digress. This recipe uses some blitzed potato and some malt vinegar to add depth of flavour and wonderful texture to the end result. You will love it.
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Need
- 2 potatoes, unpeeled and cut into pieces (approx 170-200g)
- 2 Teaspoons dried yeast
- 30 Grams butter
- 250 Grams water
- 2-3 Tablespoons malted vinegar
- 2 Teaspoons pink salt flakes BUY
- 400 Grams bakers or strong flour
- 130 Grams rye flour, plus some more
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) as needed BUY
Do
- 1
Place potatoes into Thermomix bowl and grate 6 sec/speed 8. Scrape out and set aside in separate bowl.
- 2
Place yeast, butter and liquids into Thermomix bowl and warm 2 min/37℃/speed 2. Add potato and allow to sit in the Thermomix bowl until some bubbles arise and the yeast is activated. (You can use dry yeast here, 2tbsp dried yeast, same method)
- 3
Add remaining ingredients and knead 2 min/Interval.
- 4
This dough will be quite sticky, but oil a bread mat and oil your hands before handling the dough.
- 5
Scrape the dough onto prepared bread mat and form into a ball. Wrap and allow to double before proceeding. This time will vary depending on the temperature on the day you make it, do not rush it. In fact a cold rise will give you different crumb results. So for a finer crumb, a colder, slower rise is required.
- 6
When dough has risen sufficiently, shape the dough into a ball and place seam side down onto a piece of baking paper. Cover with a cloth and allow to rise again. Dredge the loaf in rye flour and then cut a few slashes in the top of the loaf.
- 7
Preheat oven at least 1 hour prior to baking. You should use the hottest oven you can get, so at least 200℃. Hotter if you can. If you are lucky enough to have a Combi Steam oven from Kleenmaid or any other brand for that matter, go ahead and use the steam function with the hottest oven possible. If you don’t have a steam oven, you can place the bread into a paper lined Varoma dish to rise. Preheat the water to boiling point (1L takes 8 minutes to reach a rolling boil) and steam 10 min/Varoma/speed 3. Place into the oven on just a rack (no tray) on the paper, and bake 20 minutes. Turn the oven down to 180℃ and bake for anywhere between 20 and 40 minutes depending on the darkness of the crust you are hoping for. The crust will thicken with longer baking as well.
- 8
Cool on a wire rack and eat in thick slices, slathered in butter.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
