Gf Bread

Chef# 616082's Note:

A little time consuming and laborous, but healthy and tasty

• Total Time: 25 hrs
• Prep Time: 24 hrs
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 2 loaves

• 1 cup teff , ground
• 2⁄3; cup gluten-free oats , ground
• 2 cups brown rice flour
• 2 cups slightly warm water
• 2 teaspoons cider vinegar
• ½ cup walnuts or ½ cup almonds , ground
• 2⁄3; cup arrowroot (or potato or cornstarch or tapioca or a mixture of two)
• 1⁄3; cup sesame seed , ground
• 1⁄3; cup sunflower seed , ground
• ½ cup flax seed , ground
• 3 ounces chia seeds , ground (5 tablespoons)
• 1 tablespoon guar gum
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons sea salt
• 1 tablespoon yeast
• ½ cup tbsps water , 115 degrees
• 2 tablespoons water , 115 degrees
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• ½ cup olive oil
• 4 tablespoons honey
• 4 eggs , room temperature

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl, mix the ground teff, oats and brown rice well. In a measuring cup mix the water and cider vinegar then mix well with the dry ingredients. Cover and leave on the counter at room temperature for 24 hours.
2. In your mixer bowl add the ground nuts, starch or starches, ground seeds, ground flax, chia, guar gum, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
3. In a medium bowl mix the eggs, oil and honey then add to dry ingredients but don't mix yet.
4. In a measuring cup bloom your yeast with the 115 degree water and the teaspoon of sugar until it's foamy, about 10 minutes.
5. Add the soaked grains and the bloomed yeast to the mixer and mix all ingredients until incorporated, scrape down then mix on medium for 4 minutes.
6. Divide evenly and place in two greased and floured 9 by 5 inch bread pans and let rise in a warm place (I use my oven with the light on) until dough clears the top of the pans, about 45 minutes then bake in a 350 preheated degree oven for about an hour until the internal temperature is about 210.

Reviews

[WI Cheesehead]

Wow! I can't believe how this turned out!! My DH said, "It tastes like real bread!" It raised and everything! I haven't had much success at GF bread (except for one recipe of mine, but it doesn't have much nutrition) and I've never tried soaking the flour. Here's what I changed: used sorghum for the teff, 1 C water and 1 C kefir to soak, 2/3 C sunflower (no sesame) and honey to proof. Great directions, but I still messed them up and it still came out great. I am so impressed. Thanks so much.

[Cookin'-4-5]

WOW!!! This bread is the BEST!!!! It is the first GF bread I've ever eaten that hasn't been at all gummy. Of course, it hasn't even cooled yet, so maybe it will 'gum' a bit more as it sets, but I don't think so. In fact, if I have any 'concern' it is that it might be too crumbly, but we will see once it cools! Here is what I did. I used millet flour in place of the teff; 1/2 c. coconut flour in place of the nuts; 1/3 c. arrowroot + 1/3 c. tapioca. Then, when I soaked the grains overnight, I added 1 tsp. yeast and 1 tsp. sugar so I would get almost more of a fermented mix. I also did 1 T. baking powder, and 1 T. baking soda, because I usually have problems getting bread to rise enough. Not with this bread! It actually rose too much and overflowed both of the 9 x 5 pans. I scooped up the droppings and piled them in the middle of a mini loaf pan, and it filled it about 1/3 of the way, and made a very nice roll! The bread continued to drip over into the oven, and i removed the drippings off my stone about 20 minutes in, and we still ate them! Next time, I will either cut back on the baking powder/soda, or just fill a mini muffin pan 1/2 full. before filling the other pans.

[Mia in Germany]

Great recipe! I had to make some changes, so it's not exactly the bread which is described, but it turned out wonderful. Instead of teff I used millet, and as we don't have gluten free oats here in Germany (and I can't have them anyway) I used 2/3 cup red rice. Instead of 2 cups brown rice I used only one cup and subtituted the other with black sticky rice which I can highly recommend. This makes a funny purple color and tastes very good, also it adds some great antioxidants. Instead of nuts I used 1/2 cup coconut flour. As I can't have vinegar, I soaked the grains with water and 2 tbsp. buttermilk. It smelled a bit like sourdough - very good! And as I have to be a bit careful with eggs, I only took 2 eggs and some cooked flax seed as egg replacer for the other two. In the end I had a kneadable dough which rose nicely and could be shaped into one big loaf without pan - really looks and feels like sourdough bread with excellent crust and yummy moist texture! Thanks a lot for posting this recipe, this will be my standard bread now!