“I couldn’t live without bread” is the cry from many non-coeliacs. Well here’s a nutritious loaf to delight every wheat-eater. Dense, hearty and chunky, this is a gorgeously hard-core bread that packs a protein punch. It’s moist, nourishing, slices well, and contains no yeasts or sodas.
I love recipes that emerge from leftovers. I had cooked quinoa and rice in the fridge, so – inspired by The Life Changing Loaf from My New Roots – into the food processor they went, along with nutrient-rich seeds, plus psyllium to bind it together. You can make the dough the night before and leave it to sit overnight to truly coalesce, though it works equally well if you bake it immediately. I always have a loaf wrapped up in a tea-towel by the toaster and it often sings alluringly to me during the day – ‘toast me now!’
1 cup cooked quinoa
½ cup cooked brown rice
¼ cup raw buckwheat groats
¼ cup pumpkin seeds
1 cup sunflower seeds
¾ cup flax/linseed
4 Tbsp psyllium
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 Tbsp maple syrup or honey
1.5 tsp salt
1.5 cups water (possibly more)
Preheat your oven to 180C and get your food processor ready.
Place all the ingredients in the food processor and start blitzing. It will become a thick, dense, moist ‘dough’.
Blitz for a couple of minutes, until all the seeds are incorporated into the lovely sticky thick mass. Use a spatula to spread it into a silicon loaf pan. Smooth the top with the spatula or wet your hands and get in there, spreading it flat.
Because we’re simply using wholefoods and no raising agents, this bread will not change shape. What you see now is what you’re going to get – albeit a golden baked and beautiful version.
Bake for 1 hour and allow it to cool before attacking it.
A couple of notes:
* If your rice is pretty dry (some cooked brown rice can be soggy, right?), then add another ¼ cup water for extra moisture.
* I sometimes leave out half the sunflower seeds and add them to the food processor at the very last minute, so the finished loaf is dotted with some whole seeds too.
* This loaf can be sliced and frozen for toasting later.
MMMmm this is now in the oven along with some olive crackers and some creamy pear cakes in the freezer- other silver linings binge bake session in our whare. Loving it and feeling healthier for it! Thanks x