Coffee Grounds Bread- day 5! #ZeroWasteChallenge
- Carole Jackson
- Nov 8, 2023
- 2 min read
Here at Carole's Cupboard we drink a lot of cafettiere coffee, and we've been wracking our brains trying to find alternative suse for waste coffee grounds. Normally they'd get emptied over the hostas to deter slugs or go into the compost bin, where the worms love them.
But...it seems that spent coffee grounds still contain a lot of nutrients, and might even be good for you!
There are quite a few recipes incorporatiing used coffee grounds, i tried a biscotti recipe a few years ago which was, well, ok, and ive seen a view incorporating the grounds into a brownie mix, which I plan to try. On day 5 of the #ZeroWasteChallenge , I decided to try adding some grounds to a bread recipe,
The recipe was just a "tweaked" standard bread maker recipe:
1 teaspoon rapid action yeast 250g strong white flour 200g strong wholemeal flour minus 5 rounded dessert spoons (to accommodate the coffee grounds) Two Tbs sugar 1 Tsp salt 15g butter Coffee grounds from the pot (would have been about 5 rounded dessertspoons) 320 -350 ml water (ordinarily I would use 320 ml but as the grounds were wet I added a bit less. However, when it started mixing it seemed very dry, so I gradually added more water until the moisture level seemed about right. You'll have to do the same.) Cook in bread maker on a standard white loaf programme.
The coffee I used was an espresso blend, so a bit finer than the usual cafetierre grind.
You can make this bread conventionally without a breadmaker. This would alos give some flexibility to allow it to rise for longer.
It didn't rise as much as I had expected, but it looked fine, felt substantial but not heavy, and didn't smell particularly coffee-ish. Irecipe, which was just a "tweaked" standard bread maker recipe.
When i sliced it, it was dark. Very dark. like the rye "black bread". It smelled a bit of...spent coffee grounds (no surprise there). It tasted good. The crust on its own was good but it was even better toasted for breakfast, buttered and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar!
i summary, i wouldnt make it all the time, but its certainly an interesting variation on standard bread!
Other news from day 5 - finished off the mango trifle left from the day before. it tasted just as good second time around. I didn't use any other leftover foods on day 5, but I did keep my peelings from the veg for dinner!
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