Mini's 100% Dark Rye & Chia Recipe ...Love at 104% hydration (2024)

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Mini's 100% Dark Rye & Chia Recipe ...Love at 104% hydration

This rye recipe is my Chilean version of my favorite rye ratio recipe using a rye sourdough starter and the addition of chia seeds that increase the dough hydration yet maintain a nice shape. Use a large Dutch oven for a free form shape.

I designed this recipe for one narrow tapered loaf pan: cm: 30 x 11 x 7.5 or inches: 11 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 3

It is my basic rye recipe (starter:water:flour) (1: 3.5 : 4.16) plus 6.1% chia (on total flour weight including flour in the starter) plus 4 times the chia weight in water added to the dough. Also added nuts, seeds and 90g to 100g arbitrarily selected moist rye altus (day old bread.)

DARK RYE & CHIA BREAD

The wet:

175g vigorous peaking rye starter 100% hydration
90g moist rye altus
812g water 24°C (75°F)

1077g

The dry:

728g rye flour (dark rye 14% protein)
50g chia seeds
17g salt (2%)
17g bread spice (2%) (toasted crushed mix: coriander, fennel, caraway seed)
17g toasted sesame seed (2%)

829g (total dough so far 1906g)

(optional:)

4g black pepper (0.46%)
100g broken walnuts
150g chopped Araucaria Pine nuts
sunflower seeds to line bottom and/or sides of buttered form

Method:

Inoculate (1:5 to 1:10) sourdough starter soon enough to have a vigorous starter when ready to mix up dough.

Plan to bake in 3 hours from the time you start combining liquids with the flour to make dough.

Combine liquids and break apart floating altus. Stir dry ingredients and add to liquids stirring until all dry flour is moistened. Scrape down sides of bowl, cover, let stand 2 hours. No kneading ever! Dough will stiffen as it rests. (Another order for combining is to add the chia and spices to the wet ingredients and allow to swell 15 minutes before adding flour, salt and nuts. Not sure if it makes a difference but if you find you're getting a gummy crumb, let the chia soak in the water and swell before adding the flour.)

Smear bread pan with butter and dust/coat with raw seeds, crumbs or flour. Spoon or plop dough (trying not to trap air)into formor floured banneton. (The recipe lends itself well to free form in a large Dutch Oven.) Use a wet spatula or wet fingers & hands to shape dough. Pile the dough up higher in the center for a nice rising shape. Sprinkle with seeds and press lightly into dough while making a nice dome shape.

Let rise about an hour. Meanwhile heat oven200°C to turn down to 185°C (365°F) 15 minutes into the bake.Make a cover for the loaf from a double layer of alufoil or flip an identical pan over the top. Leave room for loaf expansion.

When ready dock, take a wet toothpick and poke about one hole every inch, all over, toothpick deep. Wait a few minutes and smoothen over with a wet spatula. Dough is ready to dock when you see the dough surface threatening to release trapped gasses under the surface. One or two little pin hole bubbles is enough to start docking.

Spray or rinse the inside of foil or empty bread pan cover with water and cover the dough to trap steam during the bake. Bake for about 40 minutes on the lowest rack, then rotate and remove the protective cover to brown the loaf top. Finish the loaf in another 20-30 min for a rough total of one hour baking time. Inside temp should reach 94°C, sound hollow, but I tend to shoot for 96°C or 205°F. Cool on rack. Wrap when cold.

Here is the cold loaf (after 12 days, last 6 in the fridge) and you can see how much the dough rose. The shaped dough would have been rounded under the rim. There are no nuts in this loaf other than what came from frozen stored altus.

Free form using floured rice sieve: Oops, I spy a few docking holes!

Have fun, I do! Really proud of that one!

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Floydm

May 2, 2013 - 11:54am

Awesome, Mini. Would you

Awesome, Mini. Would you mind if I featured this on the front for a bit?

Mini Oven

May 2, 2013 - 1:16pm

I'd be honored!

Wow! Thank You, Floyd!

loaflove

March 6, 2021 - 11:30am

what a beautiful moist

what a beautiful moist looking crumb!

Mini Oven

May 2, 2013 - 1:05pm

Araucaria, Chile's national tree

And it should be! Also known as Monkey puzzle tree. Araucaria araucaria. Come in both males and females and when the female cones are ripe... here are the seeds will hulls:

...and the cooked and hulled nuts:

I tried using them whole in a loaf one time. The nuts popped out of the bread slices like knots in knotty pine planks leaving bread slices to be confused with swiss cheese. Those that did stay in were too much a mouth-full as they don't tenderize too much in the bread. When chopped up, they "bite" easier. I would love to run these through my electric grater back home! I understand that the nut is often boiled & dried for storage, later being turned into flour or added to soups and stews. I can only think that early man must have loved having these nuts around.

They have a mild taste closer to a mild chestnut or even corn. Black pepper complements their flavour nicely. Raising the salt level in the dough would be a good idea. We are near the end of the pinos season here in Chile. Soon the snow will deck the Andes again for Winter.

This evergreen grove is located just before crossing the Argentinean Border to Patagonia East of Lanin Volcano. Photographed out of a moving bus. (I think that little white rectangle in the tree branches is a reflection of my camera flash. Villarrica National Park.

Floydm

May 2, 2013 - 2:01pm

Weird. I was wondering what

Weird. I was wondering what those were.

If someone needed a substitute for those could they use pine nuts?

Mini Oven

May 2, 2013 - 2:43pm

I think chestnuts, yes, normal pine nuts

would work. They are a lot tastier than the milder araucaria pine nuts. One could even use whole canned corn drained well or drained canned whole beans might be interesting. The juices from beans could be used with the water. Or just leave them out and sub soaked/cooked and drained whole grain berries. Anything that doesn't go mushy would work.

What is important here is the chia. If no chia, reduce the water by 200g and then it is a plain high whole rye bread. I'm using black chia with a sprinkling of light chia seeds.

Juergen Krauss

May 2, 2013 - 2:45pm

Beautiful breads

and fascinating ingredients!

Juergen

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 8:14am

Thanks Juergen, I'm constantly

bookmarking and downloading you and your links. You are continuously so helpful! Have you run across any European use ofchia? Stat sheets?

http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Ingredients/Ireks-sees-superfood-demand-in-UK-as-it-launches-chia-seed-bread-mix

Mini

Juergen Krauss

May 8, 2013 - 2:59am

Chia Seeds

Must try them - I haven't so far!

Thanks a lot, Mini. It's great to know there are followers!

My baking is taking funny turns these days, almost like an "impulsive buying" trip in the supermarket...

Juergen

When I was roasting some of the nuts

in the oven, the aroma was first like wet wood, then it changed more to roasting sweet corn when they were done. I think a lot about jack fruit nuts... they're in your neck of the woods. Boil some up and try it with those.

Mini

dabrownman

May 2, 2013 - 5:39pm

Just beautiful bread Mini!

Deserves it's top billing too!. Those pine nuts are gargantuan,a word not used enough as said by a one eyed samurai, sword wielding killer of some fame.

Nice baking Mini!

Mini Oven

May 2, 2013 - 6:48pm

Thanks DB, I keep an eye on your posts too!

This makes a long loaf so I often give half of it away. I've got a few containers of the cooked nuts in the freezer. They are great little snacks. There is a shoot that runs up the middle easy to see when broken in half or cut.

Mirko

May 2, 2013 - 8:49pm

Hmmmm 100% Rye, sounds very

Hmmmm 100% Rye, sounds very tasty.

I was looking for sourdough in your recipe and you are using the rye starter instead of classical rye sourdough.

It's that correct?

Mirko

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 4:31am

maybe you could tell me the difference

between them.

This is a sourdough rye bread recipe. :)

Mebake

May 2, 2013 - 10:34pm

A beauty,Mini!

A real beauty that packs tons of flavors, Mini!

Those pine seeds are huge!

Your rye rose elegently and the result is an excellent bread. Nice methide in doming the shaped loaf, then poke it. excellent.

So, is rye flour easily sourced in Chile?

-Khalid

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 5:39am

doming the loaf is essential to a nice shape

Thanks Khalid,

I do think that doming the shape of the raw dough in the form is essential to getting a nice shape after the bake. If the dough is packed flat or level, it seems to stay that way because "spring" in rye is not so dramatic as in wheat breads. With a wheat bread, one can see from the crumb shot the direction of the "spring" but high rye dough seems to rise straight up, more like a cake. Shape it round, it rises round. Shape it flat, chances are good it rises pretty much flat.

Also, don't be afraid to correct the shape before baking. Use a wet spatula and push the drooping sides back into place over the form so you don't end up with mushroom topped loaves.

The protein levels here are 10% and 14% the higher being half the price of the other one yet has better flavour and is better food value. (go figure! the demand of the masses!) The 14% is less available but also makes a great 100% loaf however the stuff ferments fast packed with lots of enzymes. Both are milled here in Chile, I just buy the one kilo packages. I carry everything in my backpack and walk to get my exercise. So I haven't asked for larger (comes in 1,3,5,10,40 kg) sacks of flour. The 14% is coming from Valdivia, www.molinocolilco.cl which has German origins.

This 14% power flour goes flat in 4 hrs., 3 if I delay saltoruse warm water. Take into account that I value a long wet time on my dough to reduce the phytic acid in the outer berry layers, I'm stuck trying to slow it down and bake lower longer even after reaching inside temperature. Raising hydration speeds up fermenting but slows browning and increases baking time, with the free form loaves I lower the heat to 180°C keep it covered longer and let it take two hours to bake.

So... With local rye flour, I've had to add salt early, cut all my rise times when using my favorite formula, add more water and lengthen baking time. (higher protein also absorbs more water.) So how did I deal will extra hydration? I added chia seeds. They are little super water sucker-uppers giving it back slowly during baking. This keeps my dough paste from being a batter and any tougher bits moist. Chia also raises protein, fiber and trace minerals in the bread.

Barbarat

May 3, 2013 - 9:10am

rye

thank you Mini. I have learned a lot just from this section. I am still on the quest for the 100% rye loaf. Had some success, but then failure. I am using currently a rye grown in North Carolina from Carolina Ground, a project that aims to bring NC farmers, millers and bakers together. <<carolinaground.com>>. The rye is a old variety which was grown here already at the time of the civil war. I grind the grain in my nutrimill to a rather coarse meal. I bake Hammelman's 66% Rye for my customers. I am amazed about the creamy texture and the wonderful smell when baked. I did last week a 100% Rye from Martin Pöt's book (Der Sauerteig, das unbekannte Wesen): it looked amazing but it is very dense. I don't know if thats right but I know european breads are denser (I am from Switzerland).

Thanks for the tip regarding doming, I will use this next week. I will also find out about the protein content of my rye. How coarse is the flour you are using? I also like the longer baking with lower temperature. Will try your recipe as soon as possible. thanks again. Barbara

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 11:52am

Rye is not fluffy

A 100% whole rye bread is dense but it doesn't have to be hard or dried out or solid with no air bubbles. It should have a pleasing texture and not send you grabbing for a glass of liquid to keep from choking. Slice thinner (3/8") than more airy breads.

My flour?... It claimes to be fine, but my camera gives more detail. I poured out 10g of 14% protein rye next to 10g of chia seed and pressed it with a spoon. Does not feel like a fine flour and is gritty yet coats the spoon with dust and makes dust so I would say it is full of different sized particles.

Zoom in if you need to. The chia seeds look neat up close too! Hope this helps.

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 6:20pm

I use to follow Pöt's blog years ago. He does

love his bread spices! I have noticed that the spice mixture does change slightly over the years by many bakers and producers. Play around to find the mixture you like. Rye in NC! So you are the midwife that makes this rebirth happen! Demand is going up. Will check out the project. I've just sent this TFL link to the flour mill that bags this wonderful rye. Curious what they will say. Sounds like you're a rye lover too! Even the 10% protein is high for a rye flour. Most are between 7 and 9%.

Mini

Barbarat

May 6, 2013 - 11:44am

midwife

Thanks Mini, but I do not deserve that feather on my hat. Jennifer Lapidus from Carolina Ground would be the person to be adorned with it. I think she is the founder of this wonderful project. I learned about this and her mill in Asheville at the bread festival in Asheville. It just makes so much sense to me and I am very excited that I am able to use some of their grain.

Your flour looks about like the one I am milling in my nutrimill. I don't like the very fine ground rye flour which looks like cement. I use in one of my other breads (a mix of AP, WW and Rye) a very coarse pumpernickel meal. I have tried it with a finer flour but the texture just was not the same.

Mebake

May 3, 2013 - 12:43pm

What an elaborate reply, Mini!

Thanks, i learned so much from your reply above.

-Khalid

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 3:00pm

you're welcome! I aim to please and make rye

easier. Rye is not so complicated. I read somewhere that it was discovered as a weed growing in the wheat. As it tended to thrive in some locations better than the wheat, it was encouraged and cultivation spread. Funny not more rye is grown in these "climate changing" conditions we seem to be facing.

Mebake

May 5, 2013 - 2:18am

That is because people want

That is because people want soft bread, and rye will not offer that. I never new Rye bread before 2009 (the year i joined TFL), and my first was mild rye bread. I wanted a dark loaf of bread at the time, but never thought that 100% rye bread could be so flavorsome. You have encouraged my to bake Rye too, Mini.

-Khalid

nicodvb

May 3, 2013 - 4:26am

This is an appointment

I can't miss, Mini. It's gorgeous!!

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 3:53pm

Where would I be without you!

Still looking for flour! Thank you for all your encouragement and translations. You have a way with words!

I picked up the last batch of chia in this market north of Concepcion on the coast. Along with fresh dried oregano.

evonlim

May 3, 2013 - 7:31am

hi mini, beautiful rye loaves

hi mini, beautiful rye loaves. congrats on the feature. i have so much to learn about rye. i love rye bread, but it is hard to handle, sticky. and with chia .. wow can't imagine how i would handle this. for sure it is a challenge for me. thank you for the formula. love to try this one day. will bookmark this page!

evon

Mini Oven

May 3, 2013 - 3:12pm

the chia makes it easier to handle

i've been following your lovely posts. i see you like using chia and spelt and rye just seems to be a grain that you might like combining with those two. keep your tools and hands wet help keep it from sticking to you. the nice thing about this recipe is easy clean up. only a bowl (or two) to wash, a spatula or spoon, and the pan practically cleans itself. the toothpick hits the trash.

Mini Oven

April 7, 2014 - 12:27pm

104% chia rye

optional ingredients are: walnuts and a nice top coating of tiny green pumpkin seeds (pepitas?) :

Oh, and I threw over 2kg of dough into an Angel food cake pan (tube pan) with the tube removed. I flattened a small foil pie pan to support the bottom and lined with baking parchment. Clothes pins hold the parchment in place while I spoon in the dough and round it. Trim paper, remove pins, let rise about 1/3, dock the loaf before covering with foil for steaming. Makes a great baking chamber parked on the bottom oven shelf. :)

Mini Oven

May 4, 2013 - 10:49am

Andy, a funny thin happened this morning on the way

to making a loaf. I wanted to make a loaf yesterday, forgot to use standing water and used tap. The sourdough starter was taking it's dear sweet time so I stirred it to knock it down, covered & put it into the fridge for the night. Normally this starter would then be flat lined but smell great and I would continue to put together a loaf today, rather delayed, but not too worried about it, it's a powerful culture.

Took the rye sd starter out of the fridge this morning and it hadn't fallen, had actually risen a little, was still elastic and looked only half fermented. Not stringy, not separating, smooth bubbly and creamy, smelling a little weak but that is common with cold starters. How strange! What ever was delaying the yeast (in the water?) was also working on the enzymes in the rye flour to ...what? cancel them out? Is that possible? Enzymes affected by chemicals in the tap water? Maybe a different batch of flour... no, same flour...

I poured 175g of starter over two slices of old bread (rye altus) covered with a lid and trying to figure out when I should add more water and flour... waiting for the starter to pin hole/ burst bubbles on the surface and the aroma to increase. Right now looks like SOS without the meat. (Chipped beef on toast) I've got some standing water now to mix with the dough but this is grabbing my attention.

Why?

ananda

May 4, 2013 - 1:39pm

water

Hi Mini,

I only ever use tap water in any sort of bread dough, and have never had any issues with it. However, if you usually run off your water and leave it to stand, then change procedure, that may be of significance...I can't advise on that, sorry.

Also, note that we both use very different methods to produce and maintain our rye cultures, and then build and use them in our breads. But your culture must be strong; so even if it's not working as you expect just now, surely it will be working just fine very soon

Very best wishes

Andy

Mini Oven

May 4, 2013 - 2:32pm

yes yes, I can fix the starter but the curious thing

is that the wet rye didn't break down. I actually retarded the stuff! I could never have retarded rye before. It would just distroy itself structure wise. I normally keep a refrigerated mother starter and take a few heaping teaspoons to make about 200g of sourdough starter. Usually overnight but I wanted to watch it so I inoculated in the morning and by evening it wasn't quite ready yet. It sat over 24 hrs before I mixed it with flour and stood out water to make dough. My tap often smells lightly of chlorine.

The idea of getting longer wet time on dough using treated tap water is a new concept for me. I did add some diastatic malt to this batch, just to give it a little kick. Back to the kitchen...

Thanks, Mini

Mini Oven

May 9, 2013 - 2:42pm

...still fixing the starter

Drat! What was in the water? Now I'm working on getting my starter back to itself. Had a slow rising gummy loaf and it should not have happened. The day long feed actually separated. Double Drat! Feeding on the counter top for a while, and feeding it the gummy altus. Smelling better.

hanseata

May 5, 2013 - 1:29am

Great bread

interesting ingredients (Andes meet Alps!), and nice photos, not only of the bread.

I learned something new: the information of late re-shaping or doming a rye dough. I would have never dared that. I wonder about your last experience with the rye sourdough. We had horrible water in Bar Harbor, heavily chlorined, and hard, so I always filtered it. Lately the water quality improved, no noticeable taste anymore, so I use tap water, too. I never noticed any difference.

And I always bulk retard my rye sourdoughs (if they also contain part instant yeast). They do rise a bit in the fridge. My rye flour or meal is not freshly milled, but bought in bulk, I know that makes a difference.

Happy baking,

Karin

Mini Oven

May 5, 2013 - 3:22am

Thanks, I was using tap until one day...

my starter stopped. Just stopped. So I left the lid off, gave it plenty of air so the chlorine could evaporate and stood water overnight in a pitcher. I tend to do that anyway because it is amazing how good so-so water can taste when left to air just one hour. It also reminds me to drink more water. Anyway yesterday's bread dough did come around and I mixed it up but it took 4.5 hours to be oven ready. The bulk rise being 3 hrs. Rise and shape was starting to pin hole (counted two holes at 1.5 hrs) and rise about 1 cm above the pan's edge, so I covered it and put it into the hot oven. It was there 5 minutes when I realized I forgot to dock it so I pulled it out again and attacked it, covered again and back into the heat. Marks closed up nicely.

I baked it 180°C for 1hr+50 minutes. I removed the inverted pan cove at 40 min, should have left in on longer as it took the loaf longer to reach inside temp. Sort of dried & darkened the top crust. Also had a husband disaster. I had this loaf baking after supper but working late brought hubby home with a fresh hot loaf cooling. He cut into it and yes, made a mess of my loaf. (Hi, John) His camembert even melted off the slice! I stood the cut end on a plate to keep any moisture from escaping and left it that way to cool until I got up around 4am.

The loaf was cold, could have stood longer open but I wrapped it tight in plastic wrap. Now to keep him away from it for at least another 6 hrs. Out of sight, outta mind... so into the back of the cold oven. I made jasmine rice while I was at it so the kitchen smells more Asian and less nutty dark rye.

Alpana

May 5, 2013 - 11:37pm

This bread is like an

This bread is like an ultimate destination for rye newbies like me.

Barbarat

May 7, 2013 - 4:42pm

no chia a t hand.....flax?

hi Mini, i don't have Chia at hand but flax. Would it be better to soak the flax over night? What do you mean by inocculate 1:5 TO 1: 1O? Thanks

Mini Oven

May 7, 2013 - 6:36pm

flax @ bread basket

I think if you substitute flax, you should reduce the water in the recipe by 200g then add equal amounts of flax and water to the recipe. If you want to add 50g flax, carefully add 50g water to the liquids. Use crushed flax to line the pan and don't add much water if at all. Flax has a different kind of gel than chia, more slippery Soaking overnight? not sure that it makes a difference, I found that flax absorbs all it wants to in the first 30 to 40 minutes being wet. Could soak and drain then add and fix the recipe water at 612g (or 200g less than recipe.)

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/22570/along-lines-egg-whites-chia-foam#comment-160705

Inocculate 1:5 to 1:10 ... means inocculate your rye culture for how it works best considering your temperature and the starter for the time you allow it to ferment. One to Five(1:5) is 20g starter combined with 100g each water rye flour to make 175g sd starter with a little left over. One to Ten (1:10) is 10g starter combined with 100g each water and rye flour. Anything between will also work. Just be sure it is fermented well (or wait for it to be ready) when mixing up the dough. If flour and water is inoculated before going to bed it should be ready in the morning. If not, the starter may need more refreshing before it is strong enough with yeast to raise the dough.

I find chia in the health food and sometimes the beauty section of the supermarket or where they keep the vitamins.

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