‘Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made every day, made new’.
This is a lovely base recipe from Amy Chaplin’s whole food cooking every day. It is naturally gluten free and made of great satiating ingredients. I adapted it slightly to adjust to the ingredients I had available and it came out perfectly. I also added everything bagel seasoning to the top as it gives it a nice salty bite.
Mr B said he loved the bread, that it tasted buttery (from the olive oil), satisfying (from the core ingredients of brown rice, oats, seeds and psyllium) and cravable from the everything topping.
Bread making can be pretty arduous, unless you are one of those people who love the process and know how to adjust for the ambient temperature of your kitchen, but this is a soak, blend and bake recipe so super easy. It has the added bonus of being yeast free, so no rising time and no sugar needed to feed the yeast.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups brown rice, soaked overnight
- ½ cup pumpkin seeds, soaked overnight
- 1 cup oats (rolled or groats)
- 1.5 tbsp. psyllium husk powder or 2 tbsp. psyllium husks
- 1 tbsp. GF baking powder
- 3 tbsp. EVOO
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp. everything bagel seasoning
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350F and line a bread pan with parchment paper, leaving a little overhang to help you remove the bread from the pan
- Strain and rinse the rice and seeds and place in a food processor, add 1 cup water plus all of the ingredients apart from the seasoning
- Blend until broken down and well combined, scrape the sides down to make sure there aren’t any missed pieces
- Transfer the batter to the bread pan, sprinkle top with seasoning.
- Bake for 40 minutes in the middle of the oven, then rotate the pan and bake for another 40 minutes or until the bread is golden and the bread is pulling away from the sides of the pan
- Use the parchment paper to remove the bread and put it on a wire rack to cool. Slice the next day and store in an airtight container.
*Instead of everything bagel seasoning consider pumpkin, sunflower, sesame or poppy seeds
