Swedish Limpa is a sweet Scandinavian rye bread,made with rye and bread flour with orange and spices. Execllent breakfast bread with touch of butter.
About Sweden
Sweden is the country which I love too much; it gave me independence, as I was staying alone there. I was able to go to work and stay in apartment, I did that in Japan too still I like Sweden. While staying there I was familiar with some of Swedish food, not all as I don’t have much time to cook. I make something for my lunch and dinner. For breakfast menu is always oat meal so nothing too specially to cook. There will be Christmas party in our department, where I encountered most of traditional Swedish food, such as Perperikor, Princess Cake, cardamom bread, their boiled potato etc.
What is Swedish Limpa ?
Limpa means loaf in swedish. . It is one of the festive bread with molasses, brown sugar, orange juice and orange zest, cardamom, caraway, anise seeds. Usually Swedes like sour bread, but this one they want it sweet.
But I decide to use sourdough so it got some tangy taste. I used some instant yeast to speed up the action.
Limpa in Swedish means just round, so it is round bread. Usually it is made with 60% of all purpose flour and 40% rye flour.
Further it contains molasses, spices (cardamom, caraway) and orange zest.
I made the Swedish limpa like this with whole wheat flour using Peter Reinhart recipe, I made soaker, but I was not able to make within 24 hours and so decide throw them and made without any soaker.
So I can say I adapted recipe and added some molasses and brown sugar. You need to increase the amount of both sweetener to get decent sweet bread, mine is barely sweet. Here goes the recipe.
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Ingrdients to make Swedish Limpa
First you need to make sourdough starter
- Whole wheat flour
- Sourdough starter
- Water
Then make the final dough using following ingredients.
Rye flour
Whole wheat flour
Sourdough starter
Yeast
Sweetners like brown sugar, molasses
Oil
Spices like
Cardmom
Caraway
Anise seed
Orange juice
orange zest
water
Olive oil
Salt
Here is college showing step by step in making Swedish Limpa bread
Cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before serving.
Swedish Limpa
Swedish Limpa is a sweet Scandinavian rye bread,made with rye and bread flour with orange and spices. Execllent breakfast bread with touch of butter.
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 165kcal
Ingredients
- For the starter:
- 1.5 cup / 191g White whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon/ 78g 100% whole wheat and rye sourdough starter
- ½ cup 2 tablespoon 127g Water
- Final dough:
- The entire starter
- 1 cup + 1 tablespoon 142g Rye flour
- 1 cup cup/ 142g White whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon / 9g Salt
- ½ teaspoon / 2g Instant yeast
- 2 tablespoon / 15g Light olive oil
- ½ tablespoon / 2g Anise seed
- ½ tablespoon 3g Caraway
- 5 Cardamom pods
- 1 tablespoon Brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon 37g Molasses
- 1 tablespoon 6g Orange Zest
- ¾ cup / 170g Water
- ¼ cup 46g Orange juice
Instructions
- Day before baking
- Mix the ingredients in the starter together in a bowl for a minute until the ingredients to form soft dough. Knead for about 2 minutes. The dough will be tacky. If you need more water or flour, add them a teaspoon at a time. Rest for 5 minutes; knead with wet hands for a minute.
- Cover tightly with plastic wrap or a lid and refrigerate for at least 8 hours and up to 3 days. Bring to room temperature and use.
- On the day of baking
- In a bowl of kitchen aid stand mixer add all the ingredients for final dough and Knead everything well for 5-7 minutes until you have not-too-sticky, supple dough. Form into a ball, let it rest covered with a kitchen towel for 20 minutes and knead for another minute. Add tablespoon of flour or a teaspoon of water at a time to adjust the consistency if you need to.
- Roll the dough into a ball and swirl it around an oiled bowl to coat with the oil. Cover with plastic wrap or a tea towel and let it rise for 3 hours and 15 minutes until 1.5 times its original size.
- After the first rise punch down and shape the dough into a boule (ball). And place it in baking sheet lined with parchment paper cover and let it rise for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until it rise about 1.5 times of it original size.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 425F with an empty pan in the top rack and another rack in the middle.
- When you are ready to bake, make a score on the top of boule and dust with flour and then mist with water. And place it in the middle rack with the baking sheet, and pour a cup of hot water into the pan on the top rack.
- Reduce the heat to 350F and bake for 45minutes or until the loaf registers 200F in the center. You can rotate it once at the 20 minute mark.
- Cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 165kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 142mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 30IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 35mg | Iron: 1mg
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
JishasKitchen says
Yummy and perfect..!!
Sukanya Ramkumar says
Nice different recipe. Gorgeous looking bread. YUM!!!
Lizzy says
Fabulous bread!!! I'm looking forward to hearing about your new family member!!! Such exciting news!!!
Renata says
I had the pleasure to visit Sweden and spend 40 days there. I loved it as well! And I love this loaf, sounds really interesting, and beautifully made and photographed :o)
MaryMoh says
Wow....that's such a beautiful round loaf. Looks very country style. Love the texture too. I'm sure it's full of flavour. Thanks very much for sharing. Hope you have a great day! MaryMoh@http://www.keeplearningkeepsmiling.com
Sobha Shyam says
bread looks fabulous..great recipe..
Angela says
I really don't know anything about Swedish food, but this lovely bread makes me very curious.
Tina (PinayInTexas) says
Haven't tried this kind of bread, but it sure looks good! I guess it will be perfect to eat with soup!
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The 21st Century Housewife© says
Your bread looks beautiful, and the recipe sounds delicious. The spices must give it a wonderful flavour. Thank you for sharing the recipe for your Swedish Limpa with the Hearth and Soul hop.
Asmita says
ow, this bread looks awesome! Warm , crusty bread right now is just what I need.
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The Café Sucré Farine says
Looks fantastic - just like it came from a professional bakery, very impressive!
Jay says
wow...this look amazing
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Shree says
Lucky to hae lived in all those places.. bread looks yumm 🙂
Urmi says
Lovely and yummy looking bread. Beautiful presentation.
Keen on Food says
The bread looks wonderful, Nordic countries are really current with their baking recipes, thanks for sharing this one.
Reeni says
Your bread has a great texture! And I love all those flavors you infused into it! Just delicious.
Claudia says
This bread sounds so wholesome and delicious. We've built a bread oven, but still getting adjusted to baking in it.
Suja says
Love the texture and flavor,thanks for sharing Swathi
Uma says
Awesome. I realy appreciate your patience in baking breads....Need to learn from you.
G.Pavani says
Awesome bread..looks very tempting.
Aarthi says
Awesome recipe..A must ty one
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Elisabeth says
Oh, Swathi-Such a lovely and perfect Limpa bread you made. How exciting to have experienced living in Sweden, and work there. Thanks for sharing your story!
Again, I appreciate your step-by-step photo instructions; especially, when making yeast dough, it's nice to get an idea visually, how it's done. Cannot be any more amazing, and delicious than how it looks, and must taste. Love the shape of the bread, as well! Take care, my dear friend:DDD
Rani acharyulu says
Hi Swathi,
Nice to know you lived in lovely places dear.Wonderfully baked bread,last pick looks cool.
Priya says
Bread looks super prefect Swathi, beautifully baked..
Treat and Trick says
Perfect texture and delicious!
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Kaveri says
Something very new to me...sounds and looks good
Anu says
It looks so perfect..yummy yummy..
Alea Milham says
Your Limpa bread is pretty! You are lucky to have lived in so many places! Have a lovely week!