- Level: Intermediate
- Total: 1 hr 32 min
- Prep: 30 min
- Inactive: 2 min
- Cook: 1 hr
- Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients
1/4 cup wild rice, raw
2 cups water
1 package dry yeast
1/3 cup warm water
2 cups milk, scalded
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup honey
2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup rolled oats, uncooked
1/2 cup rye flour
1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
1/2 cup bran
3 1/2 cups unbleached flour, plus 1 cup, as needed
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon water
1/4 cup hulled sunflower seeds
Directions
- Bring water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add rice to boiling water and cover. Cook over very low heat until water is absorbed and rice is tender. Cool.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Stir yeast into 1/3 cup warm water and let stand 5 minutes. Stir together milk, butter, honey, salt and oats. Add cooled wild rice to milk mixture.
- Stir together rye flour, whole-wheat flour, bran and 3 1/2 cups of the unbleached flour, using a wooden spoon. Stir in milk and yeast mixture until soft dough forms. Add more of the unbleached flour as needed.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured board and knead until soft and elastic, about 10 minutes. Place dough in greased bowl and turn so that the top is greased. Let rise 2 hours. Punch dough and shape into two loaves. Place in 2 greased 9 1/2 by 5 1/2-inch pans. Let rise again, about 1 hour. Bake for 45 minutes. During last 15 minutes of baking, brush loaves with 1 beaten egg mixed with 1 tablespoon of water and sprinkle with sunflower seeds.
