Carrot Seed Bread

adapted from Anne's Food
makes 20
1 sachet dried yeast
500 ml milk
50 ml golden syrup (molasses would work well, or honey)
1 tsp salt
100 ml neutral oil, such as canola
50 g crushed linseed
50 g sesame seeds
100 g dried apricots, finely chopped
200 g carrots, grated
1 kg high-protein bread flour
Add ingredients in order suggested by your breadmaker. Use the dough cycle.
Divide into 20 equal pieces (mine weighed about 100 g each), and shape into nice, firm rolls. Place on baking sheets, cover with a tea towel again and leave to rise for about 30 minutes.
Bake at 200°C for about 15 minutes. (I use a fan-assisted oven, it might take a bit longer in a regular one.)

ratatouille bread

Seeing as it's Mabon I am making a batch of my delicious ratatouille bread. Firstly I need to cook my ratatouille (unless of course I have some ready cooked in the freezer).

Ratatouille

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil

1 chopped onion

1 sliced aubergine

2 sliced courgettes  

1 deseeded and chopped red pepper

1 deseeded and sliced yellow pepper

2 chopped garlic cloves

14 oz chopped tomatoes or 1 tin chopped tomatoes

1/4 pint vegetable stock

rosemary

pepper (add salt as well if not intending to bake with it).

Method

Fry your aubergine, peppers, garlic, onion, and courgettes in the olive oil. Set aside to cool.

Add everything to your slow cooker and cook on high for 4 hours.

Measure into 1 and 1/2 cup servings and freeze. Reserve one serving if you wish to bake your bread straight away.

Now you can make your bread

Ratatouille bread

Ingredients

Add to your bread maker in this order

1 1'2 cups ratatouille (if frozen make sure it's defrosted thoroughly before you use it.)

2 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp margarine

1 tsp salt

3 cups strong bread flour

2 tbsp dried yeast

Press the button and away you go, it's really that easy.

I suggest you check on the consistency after 5 minutes, if it's too dry add a little water, it really doesn't matter if it's too wet.

This bread is absolutely delicious with any baked beans recipe. It also makes sandwiches to die for.