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Healthy, Spelt flour Focaccia bread!

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always loved bread. When I started eating the Trim Healthy Mama eating style, I pretty much cut out bread, and most carbs in general. Then, I realized that whole grains, and healthy carbs are good for you. Your body needs them for fuel, so I added them back in.

So, now I make a lot of things with spelt flour. Breads, cakes, cupcakes, pies, and lots of other goodies. I kept seeing videos, and pictures of Focaccia bread on Instagram, so of course I had to make a healthy version.

It turned out so GoOoOoOOD!! I’m not just saying that because I made it. It really was delicious! The first time I made it, I put italian seasoning on top. The second time I made it, which was yesterday, I put Everything But the Bagel seasoning on part of it. Both taste great!!

I made it twice within less than a month, so that tells you how good it is. Also, it’s so workable. Like, you can make it whatever flavor you want! The first time I used Italian Seasoning, the 2nd “Everything but the Bagel” like I mentioned before. Next time, I think I’m gonna add cheese, because cheese makes everything better!!

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Healthy, Spelt flour Focaccia Bread!!

Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Rise time2 hours
Total Time2 hours 35 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: bread, dinner, focaccia, soup
Servings: 1 Cookie Sheet
Author: admin

Ingredients

  • 4.5 cups Spelt flour
  • 2.25 tsp Red star yeast
  • 1 tbsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Honey
  • 2.5 cups Lukewarm water (95-100F)
  • 6 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 tbsp Unsalted Butter
  • Flakey Sea Salt
  • Italian Seasoning (Or Fresh Herbs)

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200F.
  • Combine the water, yeast, and honey in a medium bowl. Stir, and let sit for 5 minutes, until foamy.
  • In a mixer, or bowl, add the Spelt flour, salt, and yeast mixture. Mix until you have a shaggy dough. When you see it, you'll know what I mean by "shaggy,"
  • Add 4 tablespoons of the olive oil to the bowl of dough, and mix until well combined. Cover, and let rise on the stove until doubled in size. It shouldn't take more than an hour. Maybe even less.
  • Use the butter to grease a 13x18 cookie sheet. Add a tablespoon of olive oil to the center of the cookie sheet. (A 9x13 pyrex works as well, you'll just have thicker bread.)
  • Fold the edges of your dough like a box, until you have a nice ball.
  • Transfer the dough to the cookie sheet, and cover with saran wrap that is greased. (I used Olive Oil)
  • Place back on the stove until doubled in size. Shouldn't take more than an hour.
  • Preheat the oven to 450F.
  • When the dough is doubled in size, grease your hands, and spread the dough to the edges of the sheet where it hasn't reached. Now, press your fingers into the dough all over to dimple it.
  • Drizzle 1 more tablespoon of Olive oil all over it. (All the oil makes it taste amazing!!) Sprinkle with the sea salt, and Italian seasoning. (This last time I use "Everything But the Bagel" seasoning, and it was delicious too!!
  • Bake on the middle rack in your over for 20 minutes. No more, spelt is a drier flour, and you don't want dry bread. When it's done, eat a piece while it's still warm!! It tastes good cold as well.
  • Store in the fridge in an airtight container, for up to 2 weeks. Then put in the freezer if there's any actually left.

 

 

 

 

 

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Healthy Chocolate Italian Cookies

My boss’s wife makes these cookies every year for Christmas, and gives me some on a plate with a bunch of other cookies. These are always my mom’s, and my favorite. This year I even asked if she had any left after Christmas, and she gave me another plate of them! I decided that I NEEDED to make a healthy version of these because they’re just SO GOOD!!

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Of course I used the flour I’ve been using the most recently. It’s Spelt flour, and it’s like the perfect middle of the road between white and wheat flour. It’s not bleached, and actually comes from Spelt berries. My sister has a flour mill and grinds them for us into flour. So it doesn’t lose it’s nutritional value, like things often do when they’re ground up for too long. (Think coffee, after it’s been ground up too long, it loses a lot of it’s original flavor and often becomes stale.)

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As always, I used Pyure to sweeten it. It called for like a cup and a quarter of white sugar and it only needed 4 tbsp of Pyure. That’s one of the reasons I love Pyure. Not only is it good for you and doesn’t spike blood sugar levels, but you also only have to use a fraction of the amount of sugar you would normally use!

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Now, I thought it was kinda weird when the recipe called for a little bit of Jam, but I went with it and even used a different kind then it called for. Just stick with a berry kind and you should be fine. I went with Crofter’s Organic Blackberry Seedless.

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These didn’t spread out for me at all. They’re supposed to a little, but i’m not sure if it was the Spelt flour, or the fact that I didn’t add any milk to the batter. The recipe said to add only what was needed to mix the batter, and it didn’t need any.

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Chocolate Italian Cookies (Healthy)

Cook Time10 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: Healthy, homemade
Servings: 5 dozen
Author: admin

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 5 cups Spelt flour
  • 3-4 tbsp Pyure (Or preferred sweetener)
  • 3/4 cup Cocoa
  • 1.5 tbsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tbsp Baking Soda
  • 1 tbsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp Cloves (Ground)
  • 1 cup Butter (Softened)
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1/4 cup Crofters Seedless Blackberry Jam
  • 1 cup raisins (optional)
  • 1 cup Chopped Walnuts (optional)
  • Milk (For wetness)

Glaze

  • 1/2 cup Maple Sugar
  • 2 tbsp Arrowroot Powder
  • Milk (For wetness)

Instructions

Cookies

  • Preheat the oven to 375F
  • Sift the dry ingredients together.
  • Blend the Butter, eggs, Jam, Raisins, and nuts together. Then mix in with the flour mixture. Add a little milk at a time until mixture is fully incorporated.
  • Roll into small balls and place on a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Bake 10 minutes ONLY!!

Frosting

  • Put the Maple sugar and Arrowroot Powder into your blender and blend until powdered.
  • Pour into a bowl and add milk a little at time while stirring until you reach the desired consistency you want.
  • Dip the tops of the cookies into the bowl and place back on the cookie sheets to set.
  • Enjoy!! Store in an airtight container on the counter for up to a week. They freeze well, just don't ice them before you put them in the freezer. Ice them when you take them back out.

 

 

 

 

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