World Bread Day and Nutty Apricot Breakfast Loaf

This is 5^th Edition of World Bread Day, which takes place on the 16^th of October and is hosted by Zorra of 1x umrühren bitte. There are no restrictions what kind of bread to bake – it’s all up to you. Or if you don’t want to bake then you can buy your favourite bread and write about it.

I decided to bake something special for Saturday breakfast, something nutty and sweet : )

Prep time : 25  min

Cooking time : 50 min + cooling

(Makes 1 loaf)

Ingredients:

400 gram all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

100 gram brown sugar

60 gram mixed nuts, roughly chopped

125 gram dried apricots

1 cup boiling water

250 ml natural yogurt

200 ml milk

Zest of 1 lemon

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 ⁰ C. Grease baking pan.

Place dried apricots into bowl and pour over boiling water; leave to stand 10 minutes then drain and chop.

Meanwhile in a large bowl mix flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, lemon zest and sugar. Then mix in yogurt and milk.

Add chopped nuts and apricots, blend well.

Transfer batter to the baking pan and bake for 5o minutes or until done. Cool for 10 minutes until transferring to a wire rack.