Italian Wheat Bread

When hubby and I bought the new bread machine, I was excited to make my own bread. The Operating Instructions booklet has few recipes that I can start with right away. My first pick was the Italian Wheat Bread because we both love wheat bread.

This is how the bread comes out with our slicer machine. It turned out really good. The only thing that was missing in this bread was salt. I thought that without salt the bread would not rise but it did. Then hubby decided to slice it the thinnest slices possible to bring the carbs down.

This is the list of ingredients as listed on the book:

1. 1 and 1/2 cups water
2. 2 and 2/3 cups Bread flour
3. 2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
4. 2 tbsp sugar
5. 1 and 1/2 tsp salt (omitted)
6. 2 tbsp Olive Oil
7. 1 tsp Basil
8. 3 tsp Rapid Rise Yeast

After putting all this ingredients in the baking pan, I just turned on the machine and did something else while waiting for my bread to get done. It's that easy and simple when you have the bread machine. It does all the kneading and and baking.

Italian Wheat Bread