- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Serving: 4 - 8 Persons
Nutrition facts (per portion)
- Calories: 190
- Carbohydrate Content: 36g
- Fat Content: 4g
- Fiber Content: 2g
- Protein Content: 5g
- Saturated Fat Content: 2g
- Sodium Content: 0.35g
- Sugar Content: 14g
Spiced fruit loaf Recipe
Spiced fruit loaf is a Low-calorie breakfast recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has flour, yeast and caster sugar.
Ingredients
- Egg - 1 egg, beaten
- Milk - 150ml warm milk
- Oil - oil, for greasing
- Orange - juice 1 orange
- Caster Sugar - 50g caster sugar
- Unsalted Butter - 50g unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
- Ground Cinnamon - 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Sultana - 50g sultana
- Flour - 450g strong white flour, plus extra for dusting
- Dried Apricot - 50g dried apricot, chopped
- Fig - 50g dried fig, chopped
- Yeast - 2 x 7g sachets easy-blend yeast
- Ground Ginger - 1 tsp ground ginger
- Date - 50g pitted date, chopped
- Glace Cherry - 50g glace cherry, chopped
Instructions
- Soak the dried fruits in the orange juice for about 30 mins, then sieve, reserving the juice.
- Put the flour, yeast, caster sugar and 1 tsp salt into a large mixing bowl with the spices and soaked fruit and mix well. Make a well in the centre and pour in the warm milk, reserved orange juice, the beaten egg and the melted butter. Mix everything together to form a dough - start with a wooden spoon and finish with your hands. If the dough is too dry, add a little more warm water; if it's too wet, add more flour.
- Knead in the bowl or on a floured surface until the dough becomes smooth and springy. Transfer to a clean, lightly greased bowl and cover loosely with a clean, damp tea towel. Leave in a warm place to rise until roughly doubled in size - this will take about 1 hr depending on how warm the room is.
- Knock the dough back by kneading for a few secs. Dust 2 x 2lb loaf tins with flour. Halve the dough. Use a little flour to help you shape each half into a smooth oval, then pop them into the tins. Cover both loosely with a clean, damp tea towel and leave to prove in a warm place for about 20 mins. Meanwhile, heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
- Bake for 20 mins, then cool in the tins before turning out and slicing.