Whole Wheat Beet Swirl Bread (Vegan)


Love for Beets and love for baking bread had to result in this!


Beet festival has been going on in our home this season. Beets are regular in soups and salads. Recently we made beet wine for which fresh crunchy beets were bought from the market. Having kept the wine for maturing, the remainder was used to make an egg less beet cake. 


  I wanted to make beet bread but the drop in the temperature due to rain and hail here thwarted the plan.  Yesterday, I adamantly went ahead to bake a Beet Swirl Bread. A lot of tricks were applied to help the dough rise. I put the bowl with dough over hot water, then also heated the oven at 100 degrees, let it get cold a bit and placed the dough inside. Eventually the dough rose well and a lovely bread came out of the oven. And when it was sliced…..I had a reason to smile.



Here is my recipe of Whole Wheat Beet Swirl Bread
Whole Wheat Beet Swirl Bread

Ingredients
1 ½ cup whole wheat flour (atta)
1 ½ cup all purpose flour
1 cup warm water
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons instant dried yeast
1 ½ teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons boiled and pureed beet roots
½ teaspoon sugar
Method
Take warm water in a bowl and dissolve sugar and add yeast. Keep aside for 15 minutes till frothy.
Whisk together both the flours and salt. Add oil and mix well.
Divide dry flour mix into two separate parts (1 ½ cups each) and keep them in separate plates.
Add 1/2 teaspoon sugar to yeast mix and stir till it dissolves
Add this water to the first plate and knead a soft dough. Keep adding water till the dough gets supple and elastic. It will take about 6 to 8 minutes. Keep it in an oiled bowl and turn the dough to around to coat it with oil on all sides. Cover and keep in a warm place to rise for 1 hour.
To the second plate, add 4 tablespoons of beet puree. Now add water and repeat the process (as with the first dough)
Grease one 9 inch x 4 ½  inch loaf pan.
Now we have two types of dough- the white and the pink. Remove white dough from the bowl to the working counter. Sprinkle some all purpose flour, punch and knead for 3 to 4 minutes. Now Roll out the dough into a rectangle ( about 12 inch x 5 inch) not bigger than the width of the pan you are using. Repeat  the same with the pink dough.
Place pink dough over the white dough. Dip your hands in warm water and spatter some water on the white dough (just to make it moist). Press gently.
Roll the dough towards you, tightly. Pinch seams to seal. Place the roll in the greased loaf tin with the seam side down. Cover and keep it to rise for 1 ½ hours in a warm place.
Bake in the preheated oven at 190 degrees C for 30 to 35 minutes or till the top turns brown and the bottom of the pan sounds empty when tapped. If the loaf is browning too quickly, tent the loaf loosely with a foil.
Remove from the loaf tin after 10 minutes. Cool in the rack.
Slice next day.


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15 comments:

  1. Wow! you have got perfect pattern...looks gorgeous!

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  2. amazing post, the bread is out of this world, recently am using lot of beets in my baking and enjoying the result.Yo are so fortunate to be living on the foot hills of Himalayas , something I can only wish for...great blog and am glad I stopped by.

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    1. Hello Abha, Wish you were around and I could share this bread with you!

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  4. Love this one....all your efforts paid off, bread rose beautifully & swirls came out so pretty....I use beet regularly for salads & occassionaly for baking & in soup but beet wine sounds interesting, would you mind sharing the recipe sometime.

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  5. Hello! The wine is in the process of maturation. If it turns out well, will definitely share with you. Thanks!

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  6. What amazing looking bread...and its vegan...AND you gave us an excellent tutorial as well. I LOVE this site :)

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  7. Hi Namita, You have a beautiful blog and I have been a frequent visitor. Today I was determined to make this bread but substituted it with spinach purée. Hoping for a lovely texture like yours. Inspite of the fact that you are a self taught bread baker, am amazed at your skills. Thank you for the inspiration and do keep up the good work.

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    2. Hello Rashmi, Thank You for your kind words. I am always trying out new bread recipes and also trying to incorporate local grains and whole grains to my breads. Friends like you make my effort worth it. Thank You for appreciating my efforts and also for trying out my bread. I am eager to know the result :)

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    3. This was the best looking and best tasting bread from my oven yet and my family loved it. Looking forward to many more such successes with your recipes. Thank you.

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    4. Hello Rashmi, It gives me immense pleasure to know that your bread came out well and you all loved it. Thank you for trying my recipe !

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  8. Wow, this is beautiful, I have some beetroot growing at the moment and can't wait to give this a go. Could you use other things like pumpkin or sweet potato too?

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    1. Hello Harri, I have made breads with Sweet potato and Pumpkin. I have not added in this bread as I wanted the colours. I will soon be posting a recipe of pumpkin bread. Use sweet potatoes for rolls. They turn out delicious.

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