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Banting Bread
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Grain free sugar free bread
Servings: 1 large loaf - 14 thin slices; 2 small loaves - 10 thin slices each
Servings: 1 large loaf - 14 thin slices;
2 small loaves - 10 thin slices each
Ingredients
- subheading: Dry ingredients:
- 120 g almond flour
- 80 g ground flax seeds
- 60 g ground sunflower seeds
- 50 g ground psyllium husks or ½ tsp xanthum gum
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- subheading: Wet ingredients:
- 6 large eggs
- 250 g milk kefir or buttermilk or Greek yoghurt
- subheading: Garnish:
- Sesame seeds, caraway seeds or poppy seeds
Steps
- Whisk the dry ingredients thoroughly till there are no lumps of flour or seeds.
- Whisk the eggs till light and fluffy.
- Add the kefir/buttermilk/yoghurt to the beaten eggs.
- Whisk gently to combine.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry.
- Stir till just combined and smooth.
- The mixture will be quite soft and moist, almost the consistency of thick pancake batter.
- Allow the dry ingredients to absorb the moisture while you prepare the baking pan.
- Grease a loaf pan well.
- You can also line the pan with parchment paper which makes it easier to remove the loaf when baked.
- Fill the bread pan with the batter.
- Sprinkle some sesame/sunflower/poppy/caraway seeds on top of the loaf.
- Bake @ 180* C for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
- When the loaf browns and sounds hollow when tapped, you’ll know it’s done.
- Remove the loaf from the oven, allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- If left in the hot pan too long, the moisture will soften the bottom of the loaf.
- After 10 minutes, remove from pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Enjoy slathered with butter and homemade milk kefir cheese.
- This bread is also a delicious accompaniment to any soup as well as breakfast of bacon and eggs.
Notes
- When the loaf was completely cooled, I sliced it thinly, made little parcels of 4 slices each wrapped in cling film.
- A large loaf yields about 14 slices.
- The parcels froze well. When we defrosted them, they didn’t even need to be toasted. They remained soft and fresh.
- It is necessary to freeze or refrigerate the bread because of the number of eggs used.
- Although the slices are very light, they are quite filling. More often than not, I could only manage 1 slice at a time.
- In addition, one should drink lots of water when consuming baked goods with psyllium.
- I am partial to the flavour caraway seeds impart to bread. So, I like to add ¼ tsp to the mixture as well as a little sprinkling on top of the loaf.
- I’ve made this bread twice in my imarflex Turbo Broiler. Today I baked 2 little loaves using parchment paper loaf shapes.
- At times the bottoms of bread and cakes don’t bake that well in the Turbo Broiler.
- I simply turn the bread or cakes upside down, and bake an additional 10 minutes till I’m satisfied it’s done.
- Again, I judge by the colour and feel.
- If still in doubt, insert a toothpick in the centre to make sure it’s baked right through.
- The 2 little loaves are still cooling.
- Although, this time, we couldn’t wait to tuck in, we cut 4 slices to have with our fried bacon, eggs and tomato. Yummy!
- I think each loaf will yield about 10 small slices.