Simple Gluten Free Bread Loaf at Home

Whether you are an amateur or professional baker, there is always one product which you are hesitant to bake. A simple loaf of gluten-free bread is that for me! Mastering the art of Gluten-free product is not easy. However, after making this simple recipe of the gluten-free loaf I am a little less afraid and more interested in experimenting with gluten-free ingredients in my recipes.

 I used to always tiptoe around the idea of making a gluten-free bread without using preservatives or another type of fancy flours. After a few personal reasons, I decided to cut down the intake of gluten. As they say, ‘Necessity is the mother of all inventions’, I finally decided to brave up and deal with the gluten-free loaf!

On the internet, one would find lots and lots of recipes if you simply type ‘Gluten-Free Bread Recipe’. Most have a range of gluten-free flours going in the dough. Some would have fancy ingredients which I wouldn’t find locally and so on. Many would also have such complicated methods that I was just giving up on the idea of making a gluten-free loaf.

Until I stumbled upon a quick simple recipe by Christine, from Zest for Baking. It was like I entered into gluten-free heaven! I just couldn’t stop browsing through her recipes which were all…you guessed it…gluten-free.

I have used Christine’s ‘Amazing Gluten-Free White Bread without Xanthan Gum’ recipe and tweaked it according to the availability of ingredients locally and at my home. So, highly inspired by Zest for Baking, here’s my version of Simple Gluten-Free Bread Loaf that you must try at home.

Gluten-Free Flours in India

There are lots of gluten-free flours available around the world. Gluten-Free flour available locally in India are as follows:

1.     Potato Starch

2.     Ragi Flour

3.     Bajra Flour

4.     Jowar Flour

5.     Almond Flour

6.     Rice Flour

7.     Oats flour

8.     Tapioca Flour

9.     Gram Glour (Besan)

10. Buckwheat Flour

For this recipe, I used bajra flour, jowar and gluten-free wheat flour. All of these flours are easily available in the market and also online on Amazon.

Buy Gluten-Free Wheat Flour here

Buy Bajra (pearl millet) flour here

Buy Jowar (Sorghum) flour here

You can use a combination of these flours. However, please understand that the water absorption power of these flours is high. It means that these flours will need more water than usual to form bread.

This Gluten-free bread loaf is slightly denser than the regular white sandwich bread. But, it’s certainly tastier and healthier than the regular sandwich bread. 

If you don’t like the bitter after taste of bajra and jowar flour, you can toast it a bit. On a pan toast the bajra and jowar flour on low heat. Cool the flour before using in the recipe. The earthy after taste of the flour will not be there anymore.

The Gluten-Free Bread isn’t a Dough!

I was awe-struck to see that the Gluten-Free bread loaf wasn’t a ‘dough’. It was, in fact, a batter. Honest confession, I first made this recipe as you make for any bread recipe.

1.     Flours first

2.     Yeast Mixture

3.     Fats

This failed massively! Because the bread wasn’t forming into bread dough, I kept adding water and then more flour. Ultimately the whole bread was a disaster. Still ate the scraps of it though!

In my second attempt, I went through the recipe and saw that this bread is made like a cake batter. And the end product is, in fact, a perfect gluten-free loaf! So, if you are trying out this recipe, please don’t be alarmed if your bread dough isn’t shaping up to be..well… a bread dough.

In this recipe we:

1.     Whip up  the eggs

2.     Add the liquid mixture

3.     Lastly add the dry ingredients

What to top up the Gluten-Free Bread with?

For the topping on this gluten-free bread, you can choose any or all from the following:

·        Sunflower Seeds

·        Chia seeds

·        Amaranth seeds

·        Oats

·        Flax Seeds

·        Pumpkin Seeds

·        Black Olives

·        Sesame Seeds

·        Oregano

Black olives, white sesame seeds and oregano will give the gluten-free bread a savoury twist.

What to eat my gluten-free bread with?

This gluten-free bread you can use like a loaf of regular bread. You can enjoy the slice with

·        Eggs

·        Jam

·        Butter

·        Honey

·        Relishes

·        Chutneys

Let’s make this Simple Gluten-Free Bread

Start making your Gluten-Free Bread loaf now!!!

Now making a gluten-free bread at home isn’t scary at all. Just follow these simple steps and you too can make this simple gluten-free loaf at home. With this bread, bring in the natural goodness in your daily diet. After you and your family taste this bread, I am sure you’ll say goodbye to the regular commercial bread!

Happy Baking!

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