Rustic Walnut Current Millet Bread (All Vegan, Folks)

Hello Hippos!

Gosh my kitchen was overflowing with millets. I kept buying packets of foxtail millet thinking I was out only to realise I had 2 huge packets at home. Sigh. So I had to use up them millets pronto. I wanted a nice dense, rustic, nutty bread that had just a hint of sweetness. This is perfect for breakfast with some olive oil or even coconut oil drizzled on it hot and toasted. Mmmm. It's also amazing plain.

This happens to be super healthy because of the millets, low sugar, and the flax and chia seeds!

This recipe can be easily made gluten free by omitting the flour I used by using just millets (although it will be super dense) or adding almond flour in place of the regular flour.

Here's what you need


1.5 cup foxtail millets
1/2 cup flour (or almond flour for gluten free)
3 tablespoons chia seeds
4 tablespoons ground flaxseeds
3 teaspoons bakers yeast
2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons jaggery powder
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 cup walnuts (yes lots of nuts, it's amazing)
1/2 cup dried currents (or cranberry or a mix of both)
3/4th cup warm water



How to make

In a blender powder your foxtail millet and chia seeds into a fine powder. If you don't have flax seed powder then grind the flax seeds along with the millets and chia seeds.  Add the ground up millets, flax seeds, and chia seeds in the bowl. Add salt, jaggery, walnuts, and currents.

The millets ground up into a flour

Dry ingredients 

Warm up some water. It can't be too hot or it will kill the yeast. It should be a tad warmer than lukewarm. You should be able to deep your fingers in comfortably.

Now add the warm water to the dry mix. Add oil and start to mix. It will be a wet lumpy mixture. Set the bowl somewhere warm for 5 to 10 minutes.

Nice and gooey

Next, on a board sprinkled with 1/4th cup flour start to knead the bread dough. After about 5 minutes it should become sticky but cohesive. Keep massaging the dough with a little dry flour for another 5 to 10 minutes.

In a greased loaf pan add in the bread dough. Set aside somewhere warm for 30 minutes.

let this set for 30 min and then into the oven!

Preheat your oven to 200c. Put the loaded pan in for 25-30 minutes.

Let it cool for 10 minutes. It will be a thick dense bread that is overflowing with nuts in every bite.

Will be great warmed/toasted with some coconut oil and will be a lovely-ass accompaniment to salad. Enjoy your bread. Enjoy your life.

YUM

Keep it kind and get ready for a kick ass 2018!  See you soon.