Today we want to share a fun and easy recipe that will make your next breakfast the happiest meal. It is called ube bread, a soft and fluffy bread prepared with vegan purple yam butter. If you’ve never tried ube before, you’ll be delighted! It has the most wonderful color and taste. Give it a try – we’re sure you’ll love it!
Ube, also called purple yam, belongs to the yam family. It’s a root vegetable with a bright purple and starchy pulp that’s brimming with antioxidants. It is a staple ingredient in Filipino cuisine, where it is used to prepare a sweet purple spread called Ube Halayaand lots of colorful desserts.
For this recipe, you can use ready-made ube halaya available online or at Asian grocery stores, or you can make vegan ube butter from scratch.
Unlike the classic ube halaya, our ube spread is more butter than jam. That’s because we added a little bit of coconut oil, which makes it as hard as real butter once it’s cooled.
The two things that make classic toast so soft and spongy are butter and whole milk. But we got a very similar result while keeping the recipe completely vegan and dairy-free. We made it happen by substituting the coconut oil in our Ube butter for butter and using coconut milk instead of whole milk.
In addition to its wonderful color, this Ube bread is characterized by its naturally sweet and slightly nutty taste. It really is a remarkable little thing!
As for the other ingredients, we used white bread staples like bread flour, salt, water, and instant dry yeast. And for added richness and softness, we topped it with a drizzle of coconut milk and maple syrup.
All you have to do is knead everything into a dough, let it rise nicely and then bake in a loaf pan until crispy. Simply!
We bet you’ll be so excited to try this super cute purple bread, you won’t even wait for it to cool—just like us!
So slice it up, toast it and spread it with homemade berry jam or pectin-free papaya jam, nut butter or even some Ube spread for extra purpleness. Enjoy!