Honey Oat Sandwich Bread

This honey oat sandwich bread recipe is such a fun twist on typical white bread. This sandwich bread is made with simple ingredients and the oats are soaked in yogurt for increased digestibility. Not only does this dough make great sandwich bread but also dinner rolls, buns… cinnamon buns. This dough does it all and the oats give it such a nice texture.

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Ingredients for honey oat sandwich bread

• All purpose flour – get the organic, unbleached flour. There’s no reason why you’d want to consume something that soaked in bleach and grew in glyphosate.
• Oats – organic is best. Oats are sprayed with glyphosate while they grow and to speed up the drying process after they’re harvested. They can be expensive, but if you can afford it, definitely buy organic.
• Honey – raw local honey is delicious and such an easy way to support local agriculture. Remember, honey is not safe for children under the age of one. You can sub the honey with pure maple syrup with great results.
• Yogurt – we love adding yogurt to bread for super soft loaves. Plus the yogurt helps break down the oats to make them easier on the stomach. Learn how to make it yourself to really save some money.
• Butter – butter and bread, they were just made to go together
• Eggs – eggs from pastured hens, or those you are raising in your backyard will pack a punch of nutrition into this bread. They are expensive, so don’t sweat it if you can only afford conventionally farmed eggs.
• Salt – we use unrefined mineral salt in our home for everything. Our favorite brand is Redmond’s. The flavor is amazing and it contains many trace minerals our bodies need.
• Yeast – this recipe uses active dry yeast. Instant yeast can be used instead in the same amounts. If using instant yeast, just mix up all the ingredients at once and voila!
• Water – you could substitute the water with milk if you’d like, just make sure its warm, around 100-110F.

How to make oat’s and honey sandwich bread

First things first, lets get our oats soaking. Combine yogurt and oats in a bowl and allow it to sit for at least half an hour or even overnight. If overnight, pop it into the fridge. This helps break down the oats and make them easier on the stomach. Many people (myself included) are prone to bloating when they eat oats but soaking them helps reduce that, or even eliminate it completely.

When the oats have soaked to your liking go ahead and proceed to making the bread as normal. Mix together warm water, honey and yeast into your mixing bowl. When the yeast blooms, add in the eggs, melted butter, salt, and the yogurt/oats mixture. Mix that together until the oats are no longer a lumpy mess.

Next, add in the flour. Start with about half the flour called for and then add more one cup at a time, making sure not to add too much. Watch the dough to see when it cleans the sides of the bowl, that’s a good sign to stop adding more flour. It’ll still be a bit sticky but no where near as wet as this pizza dough.

Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm spot for 1-2 hours or until doubled in size.

Next, it’s time to shape the dough. Sprinkle a clean work surface with flour and turn the dough out onto it. Gently knead the dough to form a tight ball. Cut the ball into quarters and shape each quarter into a log. Having a bench knife makes cutting the bread and cleaning up your counter top so easy. Then, I like to form the dough into a ball and roll it out like playdough to the size of my bread pans. There’s really no one way to shape your dough. Do whatever feels right.

Place the dough into a generously buttered loaf pan and cover again, letting the dough rise for another 1-2 hours. The warmer your home, the faster the rise time will be. You want to dough just peaking over the tops of the bread pans, not towering out of them. At this point, preheat your oven to 350F.

Bake your bread loaves for 35-40 minutes or until beautifully golden brown with an internal temperature of 190F. Immediately remove the bread from the pans and let them cool for a few minutes before cutting. I know, this is simply the hardest part of the whole bread making process! Those loaves of bread smell so good, it’s hard to wait those extra minutes before cutting into the loaf and buttering up the slices.

Ands that’s all there is to it! This honey oat sandwich bread recipe is so simple to make, you don’t even need to knead the dough! If you give this recipe a try, let me know how you liked it in the comments below.

Happy Baking 😊