Since I stopped eating wheat about a year ago, I’ve been trying to find a really great gluten-free sandwich yeast bread. It’s taken me this long to figure it out. I don’t really eat much bread anymore since I’ve reduced my carb intake, so my attempts to make gluten-free bread have been far and few in between. However, I finally – finally – have a sandwich bread recipe worthy enough to share!
There are plenty of store-bought gluten-free bread options out there, but I have yet to find one that works for me. They are either made with brown rice flour or have extra fiber added, such as inulin, bran or psyllium. All of which are a disaster for me. So I have to make bread myself.
Now that I know that I can eat sorghum flour (but not oats as it turns out), this sorghum flour blend is a great option for me. I found it on a fellow fructmal blogger’s site: Life with Fructose Malabsorption. The blog is also a great source on fructmal information in general. Go check it out! I made up my own sandwich bread recipe using this sorghum flour blend and I think it’s great. You can add ground flax seed for some extra fiber, if desired. Sometimes I just need a piece of toast or a sandwich and this bread fits the bill.
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Sorghum Flour Blend
recipe from Life with Fructose Malabsorption
Ingredients
6 parts sorghum flour
2 parts potato starch
1.5 parts tapioca starch
Directions
Mix all together and store in an airtight container. I use “cups” for the “parts.”
Low-Fructose Sorghum Sandwich Bread (Gluten-Free)
makes 1 loaf of bread
Ingredients
1 tablespoon yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/4 cups warm water (110 degrees F)
2 1/2 cups Sorghum Flour Blend (recipe above)
2 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1 1/2 tablespoons oil (I use light olive oil)
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
1/2 cup ground flax seed (optional)
Directions
- Grease a 5″ x 9″ bread loaf pan (I use cooking spray).
- Combine yeast and sugar in a small bowl. Slowly stir in the warm water. Let sit until foamy.
- Meanwhile mix the flour blend, xanthan gum and salt in a large electric mixer bowl.
- Whisk together the eggs, oil and vinegar in a separate small bowl.
- Add foamy yeast mixture to flour mixture. Add egg mixture and turn mixer on low until incorporated. Turn mixer to medium speed and mix for 4 minutes. When there is 30 seconds left of mixing, add the flax meal (optional).
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Cover and let rise in warm place (I use my oven) for about 30 minutes, or until double in size.
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Bake bread for 50 minutes. Cool completely before slicing.
Thank you for sharing, I will definitely have to try that. Wheat and gluten allergies have become increasingly popular over recent years so its always refreshing to learn new tips and recipes. I just tried the best gluten free bread! Have you ever tried any Bavarian breads?
I love your post. Thank you for sharing the same. I will definitely try this recipe at home.
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I just saw your recipe and am planning on making it tomorrow! I don't have a mixer so I will be working my arm muscles a lot! Like you, I don't each much bread as I'm on a similar diet as you. I'm just now taking the fructose out of my diet and will be trying some of your other recipes. They all sound delicious!
Hope you like it!
Thanks for the comment. I hope the bread works for you!
Just made this and it is delicious! Any tips on storage/freezing?
Glad you like it! I would freeze it within a day or two of baking it, since gluten-free breads tend to dry out fast. A trick I have is put slices of bread on a cookie sheet in a single layer and put it in the freezer. Once the slices are frozen, put them in a resealable plastic bag. This way the slices don't freeze together and you can pull it out of the freezer a slice at a time!
Hi there, Im just wondering if I can use something else instead of the eggs in this recipe?.. I am allergic to eggs but can have things like cookies and such but Im not sure how I will go with this as this is all very different for me!
Appreciate some help! x
I haven't tried this recipe without eggs, but I recently found out that I am intolerant to eggs as well. I am working on a new recipe that does not have eggs, but it is not ready yet. I don't know if you would want to try Ener-G egg replacer in this recipe?
WILL GIVE THIS A TRY …SANS THE GUM- IT WILL BE OK- CAN'T HANDLE THAT STUFF- BUT DO CRAVE GF BREAD NOW AND THEN.
If you dont want egg replacer, 1 tablespoon flax meal with 3 tablespoons water with 1/2 tsp baking powder whisked up is an egg replacement too.
This bread has changed my childrens life. We are gluten dairy soy and rice intolerant as well as low FODMAPS. Thanks so much. They can now take a sandwich to school.
So glad it works for you!
So 6 parts of sorghum flour is 6 cups?
Fantastic. Yum. I just didn't use egg. I added about another 6 T of water – and pretended it was egg! Apparently the bread doesn't know it lacks anything. THANKS for this. Blessings to you!
Well don't try this in a bread machine! I have converted recipes like this to use with a bread machine before and not had a problem, but sorghum flour is really hard to work with and this was my third and last effort with it. The dough never turned into dough, it was basically liquid even after I added the half cup of optional flax. I let the dough cycle complete and since what I was left with was not anything you could call dough, I oiled up a pan and fried it up like pancakes. They actually tasted great that way but I wish I hadn't used 90 minutes of electricity running my bread machine just to get pancake batter.
Thanks for the feedback! I usually don't use a bread machine for gluten-free breads. It's good to know that this doesn't work in a bread machine, but sorry you had a difficult time with the recipe. At least people will know not to use a bread machine – thanks for being the "guinea pig"!
I am eager to try this bread now! I also though, would like to make this without xantham gum.
In most of the gluten free foods there are undesirable processed ingredients to compensate for no gluten, that I find unhealthy. All the kinds of "gums" are indegestible, just like chewing gum. Anyone tried this without the xantham gum? thanks for any comments:-)
Did anyone try without eggs and just using egg replacer powder ? How did it come out? Thanks
Hi. Wondering what the nutritional information is per slice?
Does anyone know what flour I could replace the potato flour for? I can’t tolerate night shades and anything potato. Thanks!
You could use cornstarch instead.
My kids are allergic to potato and corn, so I can’t use cornstarch as substitute for potato starch. Can I use arrow root starch instead?
I don’t know, I haven’t tried arrow root in this recipe. I guess it’s worth a try?
This bread is absolutely amazing! I subbed 2 of the eggs for 4 Tbs water and my 4 yr old said it’s the ‘best bread ever!’ I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for sharing this recipe!