Crusty Bread – Favourite for Bread and Bread Rolls
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time: 20 minutes prep, 20 minutes raising, 90 minutes baking
- Servings: 1 loaf
ingredients
This recipe is free from eggs, oil, wheat, dairy, soy.
Ingredients in the Crusty Bread Mix – Rice flour, Chickpea Flour, Sugar, Crème of Tartar, Salt, Bicarbonate of Soda, Xanthan Gum
Additional Ingredients Needed – Active dry yeast, Baking Powder, Warm Water and Psyllium Husk
Methods
- Warm oven to about 30 -40 °C or find a warm spot for the bread to rise.
- Mix Psyllium husk and warm water for few min to form a gel. Important for breadrolls, But if you are making a loaf, you can simply add it to the Crusty bread mix.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together, then add wet ingredients. Mix with an electric mixer, to a stiff dough. Mix for 5 – 10 minutes or more until everything is combined. Longer mixing is better.
- • For bread: Grease a small loaf tin (22 x 10cm) and line with baking paper. Pour mix into loaf tin, form gently by hand
- • For rolls make into 100g balls of dough and pop onto baking tray. It is sticky so work with 2 spoons.
- Allow to rise for 10 – 20 min in a warm place. Don’t allow to rise for too long otherwise bread collapses
- If raising in the warm oven, remove from the oven and heat oven to 165°C.
- Place into hot oven and bake • Bread for 1h30 min at 165°C • Rolls for 40 minutes at 165°C Check with a skewer to ensure it is baked
- Allow to cool before slicing
Crusty Bread Mix For Breads and Bread Rolls – Favourite
This is our recommended Crusty Bread Mix for baking bread and rolls.
The recipe is free from eggs, wheat, any fat or oil, soy and dairy.
It requires yeast, baking powder, psyllium husk and warm water.
It slices well, it freezes well, it toasts easily. Its our all rounder.
Ingredients in the Crusty Bread Mix – Rice flour, Chickpea Flour, Sugar, Crème of Tartar, Salt, Bicarbonate of Soda, Xanthan Gum
Psyllium Husk
Uses
- Add to the liquids during cooking and baking to form a gel, then add to the remaining ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon Psyllium husk : 300ml water is rough guide, but depends on what you are making
Quick Facts
- Ingredients: Psyllium Husk
- Very high in fiber no fat or protein, low in carbs
- Packs Fiber into your smoothies, desserts & baking
- Natural thickener, adds texture, body and strength
- Neutral flavour
Baking Powder
Uses
Use 1 tsp (5ml) Entice Baking Powder to 250ml (1 cup) gluten free flour
Quick Facts
- Ingredients: Rice Flour, Crème of Tartar, Bicarbonate of Soda
- Baking Powder, Gluten Free and Aluminium Free
- Gluten free
- Baking powder starts reacting as soon as it gets wet, so do not let it stand for too long before putting into the oven
- Excessive beating of the batter will drive off the bubbles and there will be less rising during baking, beat gently
