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olive oil and whole wheat sweet potato bread recipe

An olive oil and whole wheat sweet potato bread recipe: Fall comfort food with a healthy Italian twist

 

An olive oil & whole wheat sweet potato bread recipe: Fall comfort food with a healthy Italian twist. Recipe from Gourmet Project, an Italian food blog.

An olive oil & whole wheat sweet potato bread recipe: Fall comfort food with a healthy Italian twist. Recipe from Gourmet Project, an Italian food blog.

 

Patate dolci (=sweet potatoes) are also called American potatoes, or “batata”, here in Italy. Until a few years ago they weren’t a very common ingredient in Italian markets. But lately…

First of all, they’re part of a couple regional cuisines traditions, the Apulian and the Venetian ones. No sweet potato bread recipes, but in Lecce (Puglia), there are a few food festivals that celebrate this ingredient! Apulians cook them in the oven or fry them: they call it the poor people’s sweet.

In Veneto, they use them for a regional recipe: the sweet potato cake, that I’m hoping to bake asap.

For now, I made an American-Italian recipe: a sweet potato bread recipe with olive oil.

TIP: try using infused olive oils for a surprising variation!

 

An olive oil & whole wheat sweet potato bread recipe: Fall comfort food with a healthy Italian twist. Recipe from Gourmet Project, an Italian food blog.
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whole wheat sweet potato bread recipe

Course bread
Cuisine healthy
Servings 1 loaf
Author Claudia Rinaldi | Gourmet Project

Ingredients

  • 3 medium sweet potatoes or whatever equals (I had a big and a medium)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 11 oz whole wheat flour 320 gr
  • 5,3 oz brown sugar 150 gr
  • 5,3 oz heavy cream 150 gr - I used a vegan version: coconut cream
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 3 teaspoons mixed winter spices allspice, ginger, cinnamon
  • 1 extra teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.

  2. Wrap the sweet potatoes in foil and bake them for 40-60 minutes, depending on their size: wait until they're fork-tender.

  3. Mix the dry (flour, sugar, spices, baking soda) and the wet ingredients (eggs, vanilla extract, olive oil) in two different bowls.

  4. When the potatoes are ready, peel them, mash them with a fork or a masher and add them to the wet ingredients.

  5. Mix all the ingredients using a wooden spoon. Notice that it will not be a cake texture dough, nor a bread one. It will be right in the middle.

  6. Place the mixture into a plum cake pan lined with baking paper.

  7. Set the oven to 160°C/320°F and bake the bread for 40-45 minutes.

  8. Enjoy it for breakfast with butter and jam.

 

enjoy your sweet potato bread recipe!