Pumpkin Toast: Healthy and Delicious, Full of Nutrition

Pumpkin toast is a type of bread made with pumpkin as the main ingredient. It has a golden and crispy crust, a soft and moist interior, and an enticing pumpkin aroma. It not only tastes unique but is also packed with nutrition, making it a perfect combination of health and deliciousness.

👉🏻Ingredients list⚠️

• High-gluten flour: 400g

• High-sugar tolerance dry yeast: 4g

• Salt: 4g

• Fine sugar: 20g

• Pumpkin puree: 300g

• Milk: 60g

• Butter: 40g

• Polish starter (prepared in advance): 100g high-gluten flour, 1g dry yeast, 100g cold water

👉🏻✨DIRECTIONS:

1. Prepare the Polish starter at least 3 hours in advance by mixing high-gluten flour, dry yeast, and cold water, covering with plastic wrap, and letting it ferment in a warm place until it doubles or triples in size.

2. Steam the pumpkin, mash it, and refrigerate it before use.

3. Place all ingredients (including the Polish starter) except butter in a mixing bowl, mix at low speed until it forms a dough, then increase to high speed and knead until it becomes soft and can stretch into a thick membrane. Add butter.

4. Mix at low speed until the butter is fully incorporated into the dough, then increase to high speed and knead for about 5 minutes until it can stretch into an elastic thin membrane.

5. Shape the dough into a ball, place it in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let it ferment in a warm and humid place for 1 hour until it doubles in size.

6. Divide the dough into 6 equal portions, shape into balls, let them rest for 5 minutes, roll them into oval shapes, fold them into thirds, let them rest for another 5 minutes, roll them into 30cm long strips, roll them up from the top, and place them in a loaf pan.

7. Let them undergo secondary fermentation at 36°C and 85% humidity until they are 90% full.

8. Place them in the preheated oven on the lower middle rack, bake at 180°C for 35 minutes, take them out immediately after baking, shake the mold to release the bread, brush the top with butter, and let them cool before sealing for storage.

👉🏻✨TIPS

1. The softer the dough, the shorter the resting time; if the dough is harder, the resting time should be longer.

2. The baking temperature and time may need to be adjusted according to the actual situation of the oven, the material of the mold, and the softness of the dough.

👉🏻✨BENEFITS

• Pumpkin toast is not only delicious but also has various health benefits, such as supplementing nutrition, improving digestion, enhancing skin condition, promoting bowel movements, and aiding in weight loss

✨NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS:

• Pumpkin toast is rich in vitamins A and C, beta-carotene, dietary fiber, and various trace elements, which can enhance physical strength, promote digestion, improve skin condition, relieve constipation, and aid in weight loss. Each 100 grams of pumpkin toast contains approximately 259 calories, 42.26 grams of carbohydrates, 5.84 grams of fat, 8.54 grams of protein, and 1.16 grams of fiber.