Everybody can make this bread! This recipe only requires a bowl, a spoon and a loaf pan (besides an oven, of course).
Although this bread is not gluten-free, it’s made with whole flours and is much healthier than white bread. I don’t eat bread very often, but when I do, I avoid wheat because my body feels much better without it.
You can see the process in the picture below.
Homemade bread tastes much better and your entire house will smell amazing, you should give this recipe a try!
Easy Rye and Spelt Bread
- Prep: 20 mins
- Cook: 1 hour
- Total: 1 hour 20 mins
- How-to
- Vegan
Everybody can make this bread! This recipe only requires a bowl, a spoon and a loaf pan. It’s much healthier than white bread.
Ingredients
- 9.3 oz spelt flour (265 g)
- 9.3 oz rye flour (265 g)
- 0.2 oz dry baker’s yeast (5.5 g)
- 1 tbsp sea salt
- 12.7 fl oz water (425 ml)
- Pumpkin seeds
Instructions
- Combine flours, yeast, sea salt and warm water (like bath water, or 105°F or 40ºC) in a bowl and stir with a spoon or with your hands until you get a sticky rough dough. Depending of the flour you use, you maybe need to add more or less water, so I recommend you to add the water gently.
- Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a dishcloth and let rise for 2 hours at room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 430ºF or 220ºC.
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper or grease it with oil (I usually use extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil). Place the dough into the loaf pan and slash the bread about 5 times with a knife. Add the pumpkin seeds and press with a spoon.
- Bake for 25 minutes at 430ºF or 220ºC and 35 minutes at 350ºF or 175ºC.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Ana Moreno
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/12 of the recipe
- Calories: 165
- Sugar: 0.2g
- Sodium: 470mg
- Fat: 1.9g
- Saturated Fat: 0.2g
- Carbohydrates: 31.2g
- Fiber: 8g
- Protein: 6.4g
DID YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE?
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I thought I would try this recipe. Can you confirm please that baking time is 25 minutes plus another 35mins. Thank you.
Unfortunately I measured my ingredients to the number you have here, but it was a massive fail and I believe this is due to not having any sugar for the yeast to eat in the recipe.
Hi Lee! I’m so sorry to read that, but the recipe works. Did you use the same ingredients? Maybe you should try to use another type of yeast. Hope it helps!
Hi hoping it is good as yet to bake it.
Disappointed that you did not include the rising time in the prep time. I find this misleading.
I forgot to get my bread machine ready so looked for a quick recipe and was taken in because the rising time was not in the prep time.
Hi Bridget! I’m so sorry, but I never include the rising or resting time in my recipes, as you don’t have to make anything and you’re actually cooking 🙂 Always read the full recipe before you make it.
This bread is excellent although I prefer it with only ½tbspn of salt. However, my favourite is mixed olive bread and I wondered if this recipe would still work if I added mixed olives into the mix. Would you have any recommendations for the type of olives and how / when to add them?
Hi Neil! I’ve never tried it myself, so I can’t help you, sorry!
How come there is no kneading process involved?
Hi Carmen! You don’t need to knead to make some breads 🙂
I tried your bread recipe and it tastes great my only question is how much should it rise? the loaf I made was only 2″ high
Hi Fred! It doesn’t rise much, 2” high is okay 🙂
It turned out great! Thank you. I used less salt though.
Hi Franziska! So glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Have tried a few times to make bread with rye or spelt flour, but never mixed together. I made this recipe today, included chia seeds and ground linseeds as I had some in the pantry! Needless to say this is now my “go to” bread recipe! It is delicious! (And, google is a wonderful tool for converting grams to cups ) Thanks 🙂
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Hi Marina! You’re so welcome 🙂 I’m so happy to hear that!
I used light rye and spelt. Really excellent bread and very easy to make. I like my bread a bit dense and chewy and this really hits the spot. Will make this regularly.
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Hi Denise! I’m so happy to hear that 🙂 So glad you enjoyed it!
Super easy, super fast and tasty!Love it! I tweaked it a bit by putting a little less salt and a tsp of caraway seeds
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Hi Philippa! So glad you loved it 🙂
Brilliant recipe! My first time making bread and it was so easy. The bread is delicious! Thank you xx
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Hi Laura! Thanks a lot 🙂 So glad you liked it and the recipe worked for you!
Can you list the quantities so Americans who are conversion-challenged can make this recipe?
Hi Gwin! I don’t understand your question. I shared the recipe in ounces and grams, but I can’t give you the recipe in cups, sorry!
equivalent values
amount, in grams (g) amount, in ounces (oz)
3/4 cup 265 g 9.3 oz
7/8 cup 305 g 10.8 oz
1 cup 350 g 12.3 oz
Hi Beverly! Thank you SO much for your valuable comment 🙂 Have a nice day!
would using sprouted flours make a difference to the recipe/instructions?
Hi Erin! I’ve never used sprouted flours, so I don’t know, sorry!
Just put bread to rise directly in bread tin. Two hours to rise, seems a long time?
Hi Pam! Just follow the recipe, if you change it, I can’t help you and I don’t know if it’s going to work, sorry!
New to bread making and yeast. I made this yesterday. Love it. Just wondering what I may have done wrong as far as the consistency. It’s much denser than yours. Thanks!
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Hi Shellie! Did you follow all the steps? Maybe it’s because of the flour, try to use less next time. Hope it helps!
I made this bread yesterday and it was delicious. I followed the recipe and used 1 Tbsp of sea salt and it was perfect for me. (I skipped the pumpkin seeds as I didn’t have any.) After leaving the bread to rise I punched it down before putting it in the loaf tin to bake. Is this correct or am I not supposed to punch it down?
Hi Jackie! You can punch it down if you want 🙂 So glad you liked it!
Hi, I’d like to try making this bread this weekend but am not sure if you are using whole grain rye and spelt flour or not? Just asking because at the beginning you say that it is made with whole flours but in the ingredients list you mention only spelt and rye.
By the way, thank you for providing so many delicious recipes!
Hi Elena! Yes, we used whole spelt and rye flour 🙂 Hope you like the bread!
Hi Iosune. I wanted to confirm the temperature. Our oven is fan assisted the crust turned out very hard and the inside was still little bit sticky. Didn’t stop me from eating almost half of the loaf while still warm though…
Hi Jana! Yes, the temperature is right. I’m so sorry the recipe didn’t work for you 🙁 Try to bake it at a lower temperature or cover the loaf with some aluminum foil.
I want to thank you for this wonderful recipe. My family is new to vegan eating & love bread. Also, I want to compliment you on how kind you are in your responses. That alone has made me want to continue to follow your blog. Happy days to you!
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Hi Cassandra! Thanks a lot for your kind words, you made me so happy 🙂 Have a beautiful day!
Fantastic recipe, I’ve tried other recipes for spelt am for rye bread; however this one suits me – oh and the caraway seed tip from above proved a great addition
Hi Michael! Thanks a lot 🙂 Hope you like it!
This is an amazing recipe! I’ve been making spelt bread, and rye bread, for years, but never mixed them, the light rye and spelt bread tastes wonderful, and is now my favourite bread to make. Thanks!!!
Hi Nik! Thanks a lot 😀 I’m so glad you liked it!
This recipe is from Ty’s conscious kitchen give him credit
Hi T! We made this recipe in our Spanish blog first https://danzadefogones.com/pan-de-centeno-y-espelta/ The original recipe is from a Spanish blogger https://canalcocina.es/receta/pan-integral-espelta-centeno-frutos-secos-semillas and we gave her credit in our Spanish blog 🙂 Have a nice day!
I have to say that I was somewhat skeptical as I’m used to needing bread for a while and this is just mix and leave it.
Having read the comments I did reduce the salt to a teaspoon and still have enough of a taste (for us). Instead of a loaf tin, I proved the bread in a cast iron casserole in the top oven while the main oven was cooking something else. Then straight into the main oven to cook.
This is going to be a well used recipe, it’s possibly one of the best rye breads that we have made. I will try it through the summer in a dutch oven over a fire pit too and also try it with caraway seeds to give it a more Scandinavian taste.
Thank you for sharing this seriously easy and successful recipe.
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Hi Steve! You’re so welcome 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Delicious bread recipe. Thanks.
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You’re so welcome Al!
Hi there! I’m lovin’ your recipes but wanted to point out you have this tagged as gluten free under cuisine (and category) even though you point out in the blog post that it isn’t GF.
Keep up the awesome work!!
Hi Mare! Oops, it was a mistake, sorry! Thanks a lot 🙂
I made this bread following the recipe exactly. It was far too salty. It was inedible! Could the tbsp of sea salt be a misprint. Maybe it should be tsp.
Hi George! It’s 1 tbsp, but if it’s to much for you, add less salt 🙂
I would like to make this bread.
How many cups is 9.3 oz of flour?
Thank you.
Hi Carol! I’m so sorry, but I don’t know… You could search on https://cronometer.com/ Have a nice day!
I simply googled “How many cups are in 265 grams?” and what came up said it would be 3/4 cup. Not sure if this is correct, I haven’t made the bread yet.
I’m so sorry, but I don’t know as I’ve never made this recipe using cups 🙁
It does make it hard for those who want to try this recipe because a lot of our older generation are used to the old way of measuring by cups, maybe take that into consideration next time. The younger generation have digital scales and able to measure in grams but the older generation don’t have these new digital kitchen scales. All is well though it was just a thought.
Once the dough is made rather than leave it in the bowl to rise I put the dough straight into the a slightly warmed loaf tin and let the dough rise and then I put the loaf tin straight into oven which kind of saves double handling…
Thanks for the great recipe…
PS: Can we use alternative type flours do you think??
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Hi Nancye! We use grams here in Europe, but I try to use cups in most my recipes for our American readers. It’s hard for me to make bread with cups, I don’t know why… I’ve never made this recipe using other type of flours, but I think it could work… Have a nice day and thanks for your comment!
According to Allrecipes, one cup of flour is 136g, so if that’s true, 265g would be roughly 2 cups
Hi Laura! I weighed the flour on a kitchen food scale as well and many readers have made this recipe successfully 🙂
what if I just have the rye flour can I just use that?
Hi Mariah! I don’t know because I’ve never tried this recipe using onlye rye flour, but you could try… Hope it works!
Is the risen dough put directly into the loaf pan or is there a knead and 2nd rise?
Hi Lizzie! I put the risen dough directly in the loaf pan and then I bake it 🙂