April 8, 2007: Peanut Bread

I am steadily accumulating a recipe wish-list from other nutrient blogs in addition to alongside a relatively gratis in addition to slow Easter weekend at hand, I decided to knock i to a greater extent than down. This sum of spare fourth dimension made to a greater extent than yeast activity a possibility in addition to hence I travel retrieved i of my earliest bookmarks, for toasted peanut bread. I came across the recipe when Heidi wrote most it on 101 Cookbooks, but the recipe is originally from The Soul of a New Cuisine yesteryear Marcus Samuelsson. It's a curious African-style mix including kokosnoot milk in addition to your ain spicy home-made peanut butter. As bread-baking volition do, this recipe takes a piece to teach together, hence fills your household alongside a rattling homely aroma in addition to is delicious direct out of the oven alongside a chip of butter. Even cooled, it has a warm tint of chilli powder, in addition to the texture is a chip to a greater extent than cakey in addition to less spongey than I await from bread.

To live perfectly honest, the kneading in addition to feeding of abode yeast-baking isn't equally therapeutic for me equally it is for Nigella in addition to many other abode cooks. As pleasant equally this recipe was, it didn't thrill me plenty to justify the hours spent in addition to the kitchen mess made. I'll belike give yeast a residuum (pun unintended) for a while, alongside the exception of pizza!

Peanut bread

1 x 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
3 tablespoons honey
1 sachet active dry out yeast (7g, I think)
1 1/2 cups peanuts
1 1/2 teaspoons chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon position down cumin
2 1/2 cups obviously flour
2 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon salt
60g butter, melted

Pour the kokosnoot milk into a minor saucepan in addition to convey to the boil. Add the dearest in addition to stir until dissolved. Remove from the estrus in addition to allow it cool until it's simply lukewarm. Whisk inwards the yeast in addition to allow it stand upwards until frothy, 5-10 minutes.

While you're waiting for the kokosnoot milk to cool or froth, estrus upwards a frypan in addition to toast the peanuts for a duad of minutes, until they're golden in addition to smelling de-li-cious. Add the chilli pulverization in addition to cumin in addition to toast, stirring, until they're bursting alongside spicy smells too. Let them cool a bit, hence blend inwards a nutrient processor until you've got a polish paste.

In a large bowl, combine the flours in addition to salt. Add the butter, kokosnoot milk in addition to peanut glue in addition to mix together carefully. It's hard to teach all of the peanut butter mixed in, in addition to it doesn't wound to induce got simply a piddling marbling visible. Plonk the dough onto a floured surface in addition to knead for most five minutes. Then it's into a greased bowl, covered alongside a tea towel to ascent for 1 1/2 hours, or until doubled inwards size.

Butter i large or 2 minor loaf pans. Mush upwards the dough into i or 2 loaf shapes in addition to plonk it/'em into the pan(s). Cover them in i trial again in addition to give the dough or hence other xl minutes of rising time.

Bake inwards a 280 degrees C oven for most 35 minutes.