Roast Beef with Horseradish Bread

Category: Cakes and Bakes

This is a great bread for roast beef sandwiches but is also delicious with cheese, cooked meats, or soup. It has a lovely slightly sweet taste, will keep for 4-5 days and toasts well too.

Ingredients

500g/1lb strong wholemeal bread flour 100g/3½oz creamed horseradish sauce 1tsp salt 1 sachet easy blend dried yeast 25g/1oz soft brown sugar 1 tbsp oil 250ml/9fl oz tepid water

Method

Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl, add the salt, yeast and sugar. Add the horseradish, oil and water and mix together to make a dough Pour in the oil and tepid water and mix the ingredients together to make a dough. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes. Then place dough in a greased bowl, cover for and leave it to rise in a warm place for around 1 hour until dough has doubled in size. Knock back the dough and shape into a loaf shape and leave it to rise in a warm place for a further 30 minutes. Dust with sieved flour. Bake in a pre-heated oven (200C/400F/gas mark 6) for 25 - 30 minutes or until a hollow sound is heard when the base of the bread is tapped. Transfer the bread to a wire rack and leave it to cool. Cut into wedges and serve with a traditional roast beef dinner. Alternatively, use for roast beef sandwiches. PER 100g 293 Kcal, fat 4.7g, saturated fat 0.6g, salt 1.1g, carbohydrate 55.8g, sugar 7.8g, fibre 7.3g