What goes better with soup than a great piece of bread? This Potato Bread with Roasted Apples is slightly sweet, with chunks of tender apple studding the whole wheat dough.
Potato breads are some of my favourites - hearty while impossibly tender, they are perfect for sandwiches or morning toast with whatever Toast Topper you fancy. When I saw the Bread Bakers theme for February was Potato, I had the perfect idea pop into my head (which coincided nicely with my baking schedule and on-hand items).
For those who didn't grow up with French instruction (and particularly France-French instruction, as opposed to Quebecois, Belgian or Haitian), potatoes are referred to as pommes-de-terre - literally "apples of the earth". Since I had that little trivia nugget stored away for life, I decided to be a bit cheeky with this month's submission and make a "double apple" bread: apples of the earth, with apples of the tree. Using a basic potato bread recipe I had, I set about figuring out how to add apples without making it soggy or compromising the dough structure. My answer: roast the apple chunks. A short blast of heat combined with a preliminary toss in cinnamon sugar draws out just enough moisture so that the apples stay tender, but don't give up their juice in the wrong spot. The rest of the dough was pretty straight forward, with milk-boiled potatoes forming the basis (and the warmth) for the whole wheat flour and yeast. This dough is a pretty vigorous riser, so keep an eye out on it (especially during that second rise) and pop it in the oven early if you see it puffing up too much.
Like most delicious things, the hardest part was waiting for this to cool before slicing into it. It's an important step though, so don't skip it - unless you don't mind torn bread, which doesn't sound all that bad (just not toaster friendly).
We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.
- Bacon Potato Silver Dollar Pancakes from Food Lust People Love
- Baked Vada Pav from Cook with Renu
- Feather Rolls from A Messy Kitchen
- Loaded Baked Potato Pizza from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Okinawan Sweet Potato Pani Popo from Magical Ingredients
- Potato Bread with Roasted Apples from What Smells So Good?
- Potato Crescent Rolls from Passion Kneaded
- Potato Dinner Rolls from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Sweet Potato Biscuits from The Wimpy Vegetarian
- Turkish Stuffed Pogaca with Cheese & Potato from Sneha’s Recipe