I'm staying in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and since I cannot find healthy essene bread but I did find organic wheat berries I decided to try to make this delicious sprouted bread myself.
I found this recipe and instructions for making essene bread so here's my experience.
I bought organic wheat berries from Radiant Foods and at midnight, I rinsed the wheat berries, placed them in a large stainless steel pan (3 cups), covered them with water and covered the pan with a clean tea towel.
The next morning at 10:00am, I rinsed the wheat berries. Because it is very warm (36C, 97F and humid) here in KL, I expected the berries to sprout quickly. I rinsed them again at 1:00pm and by 4:00pm the berries were just sprouting!
It took just 16 hours for the sprouts to appear...
Since I'm in transit and don't have access to a food processor or an old-fashioned meat grinder as suggested by another sprouted bread recipe, I had to make do with a blender. I processed the sprouted wheat in two batches and I had to add about 1/2 cup of water to each batch to make the blender do the job of grinding the berries. This resulted in a slightly wet dough. I then placed it in a a large strainer for 5 or 10 minutes so that the excess moisture would drain off.
I also did not have a non-stick pan. Thus I lined the pan with baking paper, oiled it slightly with olive oil* and pressed the dough into the pan. I did wonder if I could bake the bread in a loaf pan or just mold it into a nice round loaf but since this was my first attempt and I was determined to have a success I just follow the instructions as closely as I could and I'll experiment with the next batch.
Here's my bread ready for the oven...
And here's a closeup. You can see it is quite wet...
An in-the-oven shot....
Only 35 minutes to bake...
A closeup of the finished product...
Stacked and Ready to eat...
I had a bite right out of the oven with a bit of unsweetened raspberry jam...hmmmmmmMMMmmmm...delicious!
If you need a constipation cure, you should give up bad bread and try this ancient bread recipe. Essene (sprouted wheat) bread is rich in vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll and enzymes. It contains no oil, no preservatives, no salt and best of all no added sugar!
* Olive oil is one of the few healthy oils that can safely withstand low heat without oxidizing (see this article by Dr Ben Kim on choosing healthy oils for cooking)
