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This is my favourite bread and the shape I like most: It’s a must on my Easter table, dove is in fact a symbol for this day: we do have a ‘Dove’ cake in Italy just as we have ‘Panettone’ for Christmas.
Whether you use a bread machine or not you need a few hours before your bread is ready. I don’t have a bread machine although I’ve been thinking to buy one for some years. In fact it’s quite practical and saves a lot of your time: you don’t need to knead your dough more than once which is in some cases hard work. When you make bread the old style, I mean without a bread machine, you need a whole morning considering rise and knead times - I’m speaking of yeast bread of course! Anyway I think you should try and I'm sure you'll love it!
50 g buckwheat
80 g pearled barley
50 g sunflower seeds
10g dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
180 ml warm milk
60 ml warm water
235g white plain flour
180g wholemeal plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon milk, extra
2 teaspoons sesame seeds, extra
Place buckwheat, pearled barley and sunflower seeds in small heatproof bowl, cover with boiling water, cover and stand 30 min. Then rinse and drain well.
In the meantime combine yeast, sugar, milk and water in small bowl, whisk until yeast is dissolved. Cover and stand in warm place about 20 min or until mixture looks frothy.
Put flour and salt into a large bowl, add grain mixture, oil and yeast mixture. Mix to a soft dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead well until dough is smooth and elastic (about 10 min).
Place dough in large greased bowl, cover and stand in warm place about one hour or until dough has doubled in size.
Turn dough onto a floured surface, knead until smooth. Divide it into 3 pieces, shape each piece into a 30cm sausage.
Plait sausages and place dough into a greased loaf pan.
Cover, stand in warm place about 30 min or until risen.
Brush dough with combined egg yolk and extra milk. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bake at 200° for about 45 min
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