GLUTEN FREE BREAD
A simple gluten free bread recipe for how to make gluten free bread at home! It couldn't be easier. Great for avocado toast, or a home-made sandwiches.
INGREDIENTS
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300g brown rice flour
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220g Gluten free brown bread flour
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380g tapioca starch (tapioca flour)
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2 Tablespoons instant yeast
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1 Tablespoon fine sea salt
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Coconut gluten free flour
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Calamata olives ( if your making olive bread)
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Pumpkin seeds
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Sunflower seeds (if your marking the GF seeds bread)
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2 large eggs
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670g lukewarm water
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65g Olive olive
METHOD
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Add the dry ingredients (with all the rice flour) and mix in on speed 5 until well combined. Tip flour mixture into a large mixing bowl
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Pour liquid into the bowl with the flour mixture and mix together with a wooden spoon until all the dry ingredients are well incorporated. There is no need to knead! Dough will be like a wet, sticky, scone dough, not like a regular bread dough.
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Cover (but not airtight) and allow dough to rest at room temperature until it rises, approximately 1 hour or so. You can use it immediately after this initial rise, but the flavour is nicer if you refrigerate it in a lidded (not airtight) container overnight first. You can use the dough over the next 7 days, although bear in mind, the flavour gets stronger each day.
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Quickly shape it into a ball, gently pressing into shape, and smoothing with a little water if you don't want it rough and rustic.
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Allow the dough to rest, loosely covered in plastic wrap, on a pizza peel sprinkled with flour or on baking paper on a cookie sheet if you don't have a pizza peel. It will need to rest for about an hour and a half, or even 2 hours. (If it hasn't been refrigerated and you're using it straight away, it will only need about 40 minutes to rest.) It will rise a little in this time, but it won't double like regular bread dough does
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Preheat the oven to 230 degrees C (450 degrees F)
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Place an empty grill tray or baking pan on the rack underneath.
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When the loaf is ready to bake, slash the top with 1/4-inch-deep parallel cuts, using a very sharp knife, or a serrated bread knife. This isn't just for looks - it seems to bake better inside if you do this.
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Slide the loaf directly onto the hot stone or pan. (If using baking paper, leave it under the bread). Quickly pour a cup of hot tap water into the hot grill tray or baking pan and immediately shut the oven door. Bake for about 35 - 40 minutes, until lightly browned and firm. If you used baking paper, carefully remove it two-thirds of the way through the baking time and bake the loaf directly on the hot stone, cast-iron pan, or oven rack.
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Allow bread to cool on a rack before sharing it .
