Alsatian bread with sunflower seeds

Ingredients:
-1 ¾ cup lukewarm water
-1 teaspoon dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups whole-wheat flour
- ¾ cup sunflower seeds
- 4 tablespoons sunflower oil or other

On top:
- 1 beaten egg
- poppy seeds for sprinkling

Method:
Pour water into a large bowl, add yeast, sugar and gently stir until yeast is dissolved.Pour flour and 1 cup wholemeal flour - stir briefly with a spoon.
Then cover and leave for about 30 minutes.
After this time, add the sunflower oil and salt - stir.
Stirring constantly Gradually add the remaining cup of wholemeal flour until a soft dough.Then put the dough on pastry board and knead until smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes).

The kneaded dough translate to slightly oiled bowl, cover tightly in plastic foil and leave to rise until doubled in size - about 1 ½ hours.
When dough lightly press (degassed) and let it rest, about 10 minutes.
During this time, spread with butter circular form (eg Cake stand) with a diameter of 20 cm.Turn onto a pastry board, divided into three equal parts. On the one formed a slightly flattened ball and place it inside the mold. Any remainder divided into three equal parts (for a total of 6) and put them at equal intervals around the center.

Cover with a cloth and leave until doubled in volume, about 45 minutes.
Spread lightly broken egg, sprinkle with a fairly abundant measure poppy.
Bake at 190 ° C until it is nicely zrumieniony - about 40 minutes.