Walnut and Pumpkin seeds bread

Here is a bread recipe I was given by a friend while living in Switzerland. It is delicious with cheese and cured meats and very easy to make, you can mix the ingredients either with a stand up mixer or by hand.

Walnut and Pumpkin seed bread

Ingredients

250 gr (1.5 cup + 2 Tbsp) whole wheat flour

200 gr (1 1/4 cup + 1 heap Tbsp) unbleached white flour

10 gr (1.5 tsp) salt

10 gr (2.5 tsp) active dry yeast (to be diluted in 50 gr warm water and 1 tsp sugar) (20 gr yeast if you use fresh yeast)

70 gr (1/2 cup) hulled unsalted pumpkin seeds

100 gr (1 cup) walnuts roughly crushed

350 cl warm water (1 1/3 cup)

Method

Dilute the yeast and sugar and let it sit for aside for a few minutes.

Then pour all liquids on all dry ingredients and knead until you obtain a homogeneous and slightly sticky mass.

Let it rise at room temperature covered with a cloth for 1h or until double in volume.

Punch down and shape either in one big loaf or 2 or 3 smaller ones, make a few deep cuts side ways (2 cm /1 inch deep) with a very sharp knife.

Let it proof covered for another 20mn.

Bake your bread in preheated oven to 230 deg. C/446 F for 10 mn with a container of water, after 10mn reduce the heat to 180 deg. C/356 F and bake for a further 30mn or so.

You will know the bread is cooked when it sounds hollow when you tap under it.