how to add whole buckwheat groats, toasted or raw, to bread?
Hi friends,
I have some raw and some toasted whole buckwheat groats. What is a good way to incorporated them into leavened bread for good flavor, taste and texture? I have never prepared anything with buckwheat, only have enjoyed soba noodles.
Would you just knead them in like oatmeal? Soak then extensively like steel cut oats? Or cook to chewy tender like wheat berries? As a note for my preference, I have found that just soaking wheat berries or oat groats and adding to the dough does not work for me. Its not that I don't like crunchy, I love crunchy, but I think these whole grains don't get cooked through by the time the bread is baked and its not quite digestible or that tasty. Cooking them works better.
I have only one reference. Rose Levy Beranbaum's ten grain torpedo. Here she uses a mixture of ten grains one of these being toasted buckwheat groats. She simply soaks the mixture of grains in cold water overnight.
You know, for most part, some additions to bread just work...like sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, walnuts, and so on, you know what I mean. How do you feel buckwheat groats, the toasted or the raw versions work for bread?
Thank you so much!
a "green" taste. Toss some between your gums and taste.
You can toast some on medium heat in a naked frying pan stirring constantly and see how you like them toasted.
Up to you.
In my experience, they cook down to mush and disappear into the bread, so I wouldn't cook them first. Toasting is probably nice. I also use whole buckwheat flour in some breads which gives the flavour and adds nice little black flecks to the dough.
Hi! Thank you Mini and Lazy Loafer. So, just add toasted buckwheat groats to the dough, like nuts or oatmeal, without soaking?
I just made a pain de campagne type of bread with a touch of whole grain buckwheat flour. It does work out nicely like you say LL.
as part of a soaker.
I love buckwheat and have been exploring ways to incorporate it. Thus far, my favorite is to sprout it, dry it, and then grind it into flour. I found some sprouted buckwheat flour and have loved what it does to bread. So, next up is to let the sprouting process continue a bit. Once it's sprouted, I'll crush it a bit and add it to my soaker.
Have fun!
Sourdough bread with chia seeds and buckwheat groats
Preferment ingredients
120 g bread flour
220 g water
25 g rye sourdough starter, 100% hydration
30 g chia seeds
45 g hulled buckwheat groats, toasted in frying pan
Bread ingredients
100 g whole wheat flour
260 g bread flour
175 g water
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
9 g sea salt
Method
Day 1
Mix the ingredients for the preferment in a bowl. Cover and leave overnight at room temperature.
Day 2
Put the preferment in your stand mixer.
Mix the bread and whole wheat flour with the instant yeast in a separate bowl and add that to the preferment in the mixer.
Pour in the water and mix on LOW for a minute or two.
Autolyse for 20-30 minutes.
Add the salt and knead for 4-5 minutes. Leave dough in mixer bowl 40-50 minutes.
Do two S+F 40-50 minutes apart, preferably on a flat surface and place dough in a large bowl.
After the second S+F wait another 40-50 minutes.
Shape and place dough in a banneton for about 2-3 hours. This time depends on the ambient temperature and then of course the temperature of the dough.
Preheat oven and bake on an oven stone for 45 minutes at 220 C, of which 15 minutes with steam. The result will be a delicious bread full of flavor that wil make your day!
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