Gluten Free Brown Bread Recipe

Gluten Free Brown Bread

13 fl oz. water
1 Tbsp. yeast

1 1/2 c. (6.75 oz) brown rice flour
1/2 c. (2.25 oz) ground flax seed
1/2 c. (3.20 oz) tapioca starch OR corn starch
1/2 c. (2.55 oz) potato starch

1 Tbsp. xanthan gum**
1 Tbsp. caraway seed (optional)
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. cocoa powder

3 large eggs (6 oz)
3 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 Tbsp. molasses
1 tsp. vinegar

**I haven’t tested this with guar gum, but if you’d like to I’d suggest that you start with 1.5 Tbsp.

This recipe has ALOT of ingredients, so let’s start by getting all of the ingredients out. Then mix the yeast and water in a separate container so that the yeast can start to proof. Next, measure and mix all of the dry ingredients (brown rice flour – cocoa powder) in a large mixing bowl. Use a fork to stir the dry ingredients until the cocoa powder and flax seed are evenly distributed throughout. Finally, measure out all of the wet ingredients into a different mixing bowl and stir themwith a fork until the eggs are well beaten.

Assuming that your yeast has proofed successfully, add the yeast/water and other liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix everything up with a mixer for 3 – 4 minutes.

Conventional Oven Directions: Scoop the dough into a loaf pan that has been lined with greased parchment paper. Smooth the dough out and then cover the pan with a clean kitchen towel or plastic wrap. Let the bread rise in a warm place until it reaches the top of the pan at the edges. The amount of time that this will take will vary. Once the bread has risen, put it into an oven that has already been heated to 350 degrees F. If you have a pizza stone, put it on the lowest oven rack when you turn the oven on, and then place the loaf pan on top of the pizza stone when the dough goes into the oven. Bake the bread until it reaches an internal temperature of 210F. The bread should also be hard on top at this point and hollow sounding when you tap on it. If the bread seems to want to squash down when you touch the top, leave it in the oven for a few more minutes.

Bread Machine Directions: Scoop the dough into the bread machine pan. Remove the mixer blade if you want. If your machine has a gluten free bread setting then use that. Otherwise, choose a setting that is approximately 80 – 120 minutes long and allows approximately equal times for mixing/rise and bake. The paddle is not necessary since you’ve already mixed your ingredients with the mixer.

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