No Bread-maker Healthy Honey Oat Bread

As you know I love oats. They are so versatile- cookies, cakes, on-the-go breakfasts, energy balls etc. The options are endless... but steel cut oats on the other hand. I never know what to do with them. I've tried eating them as oatmeal before, but I find it too grainy. So when I'm grocery shopping I try to stick with rolled or quick oats. Key word- try. One day while I was rushing around the grocery store (typical) I accidentally grabbed a ginormous bag of steel cut oats... it has been sitting in my pantry for months and I finally got the courage to experiment!

Full disclosure: I am not a master bread-maker nor do I own a bread-maker. Really, the only bread I have experience making is banana bread, and banana bread leans more on the side baking rather than the true art of bread-making so I thought this experiment would be a flop. It was worth a try nonetheless. 

It may seem like I had crafted the perfect recipe before trying to create a seedy nutrient dense bread that could pair well with both sweet and savoury, but the honest truth is that I just made it up on the fly. 

Surprisingly, it was a huge success! A seedy nutrient dense bread it is- full of sunflower seeds, flax seeds, chia seeds, avocado oil, and of course honey and steel cut oats. 

No Bread-maker Healthy Honey Oat Bread

See Real Peel Tips #1  and #2 under the tips on the tool bar. Flaxseed is most nutritious when it is freshly ground but I often have some ground flaxseed in the fridge ready to use. 

The honey that I love to use is local TrueBee Honey by Peachey Honey Farm . 

I get avocado oil from the local grocer the band I use is Chosen Foods . 

I don't often use yeast, unless I am making pizza dough, so I like to buy the small packets to avoid having a big jar of yeast  expire, but now that I know how delicious this bread is I might opt for the jar of yeast. The brand I have been using is Fleischmann's yeast.