Bread Machine Whole Wheat Bread with Bulgur Wheat, Oats, Bran, and Flax Seed Meal
(This Bread Machine Whole Wheat Bread with Bulgur Wheat, Oats, Bran, and Flax Seed Meal has been removed from my site and replaced with Bread Machine 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Oats, Bran, and Flax which I think is a better bread machine recipe. However, I am keeping the printer-friendly recipe here for this version in case anyone was a fan.)
Makes one half-pound loaf of bread.
Ingredients for Bulgur: Combine and soak 1 hour:
- 2/3 cup boiling water
- 1/2 cup bulgur wheat
Mix dry ingredients:
- 2 1/4 cup white whole wheat flour
- 3/4 cup ground oatmeal (grind oatmeal in food processor, then measure)
- 2 T wheat bran
- 2 T flaxseed meal
- 2 T vital wheat gluten
- 1 T dough enhancer
- 1 tsp. salt
Combine wet ingredients and sweeteners:
- 2 T olive oil
- 1 T agave nectar
- 1 T brown sugar
- 1 cup warm water (slightly warmer than room temperature)
- 2 2/3 tsp. yeast
Instructions:
- Follow directions for your bread machine for the order to add ingredients.
- In my Oster Bread Machine I put the liquid in first, followed by the dry ingredients I mixed in the bowl.
- Then I make a small well in the flour and put the yeast in that.
- I used the whole wheat setting on the machine.
- Watch bread while it goes through the first mixing cycle, and if it doesn’t form a ball you may need to add more flour or water, a little bit at a time.
- The dough should make a firm ball and be only slightly sticky. (I made this bread several times and usually added a few teaspoons of extra water, but it depends on the humidity where you live and how carefully you measure ingredients.)
- My bread machine takes 3 hours 40 minutes for the whole wheat cycle.
- Bread is delicious hot or cold, and also makes great toast.
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28 Comments on “Bread Machine Whole Wheat Bread with Bulgur Wheat, Oats, Bran, and Flax Seed Meal”
What is “dough” that you add to the ingredients?
Dough Enhancer is a product that helps the dough to rise. Many stores sell it, especially stores that sell other products used to make bread. Or if you check Google there are recipes for it online, although I haven’t ever made it myself. I haven’t tried the recipe without it so I can’t say whether or not it’s essential.
So glad you liked the bread and good to know that it worked without the dough enhancer too. And that casserole is one of my faves!
On south beach I missed bread so I purchased a machine at Goodwill and purchased the ingredients and made a loaf. I did not find dough enhancer so left it out. The bread is marvelous. Light, stays together when sliced, and good flavor. Thank you for your recipes. I also made the mock chicken enchiladas. My husband declared he was taking leftovers for lunch tomorrow. I bought the Verde sauce (2 10oz cans)and whole chilies in super Walmart.
I've never used spelt flour, so I have no idea how it would work.
These look GREAT!
I just bought hamilton beach breadmaker and haven't made any bread yet. Can spelt flour be substituted for whole wheat flour? I want to make this tomorrow.
Julie, hope you enjoy!
Thanks for experimenting with the bulgar for me. I've been making tabbuouli several times this week, but was looking for another way to use up the rest of the bag. I look forward to trying it out.
Betty the dough enhancer I have contains whey, soy milk, soy lecithin, modified corn starch, vitamin C powder and citric acid. You could try googling to see if you can find a recipe with the proportions. Other than that, I don't know what to substitute.
Are there any substitutes available for the "dough enhancer" found in some bread recipes? Please advise. Thank you!
Katie, so glad you liked it!
I finally made time to try this, and I’m so glad that I did!! It was delicious, and had a great texture from the bulgur and oats (I didn’t grind mine). Thanks for a fabulous recipe!
Ellie, I have an Oster Bread Machine. There’s a link in the post to the machine on Amazon.com, where you can see more about it. There are a lot of good bread machines, but I like the way this one makes a small horizontal loaf. I’ve had it for a while, but they don’t seem to have changed the model that much so it must be popular.
Hi,
I love this recipe, and the story reminds me of how my mom used to sneak bran into everything– even our pizza crusts had bran in them! But now I love it. I was wondering what kind of bread maker you use? I like to go for the tried and true before I buy.
thanks!
Ellie
I love making bread in my machine and this looks like a great recipe. Sometimes I get in a rut and it’s nice to see different things to try. Thanks!
Debbie
How interesting. I have lots of bulgur in my pantry and I’ve started baking bread recently…so I just might try this out.
Hope you feel better soon Kalyn. 🙂
Yay. I have oft wondered about using bulgur in bread but never tried it. Please know that your recipe brightened my day.
I did mean as opposed to glass or metal. Thanks.
One of these days I’ll make room in my kitchen for a bread machine. I don’t eat bread much anymore, but I still love baking it from time to time. The machine would probably mean I’d bake a bit more often.
Mindy, do you mean plastic as opposed to glass or metal? If so, any of those will work. If you mean why do I mix before adding to the bread machine, I guess it’s just to make sure all the ingredients are well-combined. Probably not essential, but since there are so many extra ingredients besides flour, I’m just being careful.
Thanks for the hug!
Is there a reason you mix this in a plastic bowl? I think there are few things as therapeutic as the smell of freshly baked bread in the house. Virtual hug to you.
Thanks for the kind thoughts everyone. I’ll be fine, just going through the process of realizing that my stepmother is really gone. Would love to hear from someone who makes this without a bread machine. (I’m clueless about how that would work, but I did love the bulgur in the bread!)
I’d like to try this…I assume I could do this without a bread machine. What wonderful ingredients.
Sorry you’re feeling sad….
I am always looking for recipes for my bread machine. This sounds like a good one if I can find all of the ingredients. You have been in my thoughts.
Kalyn
Thanks for all your work getting these recipes perfect for your followers. I, too, still have sad days even though I lost my mom over three years ago. I just became a grandmother three weeks ago (would have been my mother’s first GREAT grandchild), and I had such a hard time realizing that I couldn’t call her to tell her the great news. Hopefully you will have only wonderful memories of her to get you through this. Your fans are thinking of you. Hugs.
i used to come downstairs to freshly baked bread in the bread machine. i wonder where my parents stashed that thing? 🙂
Trish, I agree, baking bread is good therapy. I needed it today. I think I’m having kind of a delayed reaction to my stepmother’s death. Really feeling sad today, but I’ll be okay. Thanks for your concern.
I’ve never used a bread machine before…but make mine by hand. I love the idea of using bulghar in the bread….I shall see what I can adapt. Great recipe. I love coming here and seeing what you have made. How is everything? Baking bread is gooooood therapy!