French, Italian or English - Pain aux Noix, Pane alle Noci or Walnut Bread - this bread is a perfumed delight accompanying chesses or served as an appetizer (simple or toasted with foie gras!). The bread is slightly sweetened with sugar, honey or syrup and for best results the starter is a sourdough. Of course, there is a French purplish-blue version made with … red wine. Parfait!
Ingredients:
360g whole meal flour
100 g white flour
20 g yeast
280 g milk
8 ml salt
50 g butter
15 ml brown sugar
200 g walnuts
1. In a bowl mix the flour, sugar and salt together.
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan.
3. Dissolve the yeast in warm milk. Pour over flour and mix with the melted butter in the flour.
4. Stir everything together and knead for 8-10 minutes to get elastic non sticky dough. Let rise for 30 minutes.
5. On a lightly floured surface roll the dough and sprinkle over with walnuts.
6. Roll the dough like a roll pad and let it rise for 30 minutes.
7. From the dough roll: either a log and join the end to make a ring, or (for the easy version) two balls.
8. Leave on the baking sheet to rise for 30 minutes.
9. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees.
10. Bake for 35-40 minutes. Cool on a wire rack before serving.
Printer friendly downlodable recipe in English, here:
Walnut Bread En
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