Brown Rice & Buckwheat Gluten Free Sandwich Bread

[Laura]

This site has some good gluten free recipes. Make sure you no longer have a candida problem before trying them, though, since many of the recipes call for yeast.

Brown Rice & Buckwheat Gluten Free Sandwich Bread

1 Tbsp. active dry yeast
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 ½ c. water (105 degrees or a little less than hot)

1 c. + 4 tsp. brown rice flour
1 c. + 4 tsp. corn starch
1/2 c. + 1 Tbsp. buckwheat flour
1/4 c. masa harina
2 tsp. xanthum gum
1tsp. salt

2 eggs
1 ½ Tbsp. oil
1 tsp. cider vinegar

1. Start by combining the yeast and sugar in a small bowl (I use the smallest in my set of three nested mixing bowls). Add the water while gently stirring the yeast and sugar. Let this mixture sit while you mix the rest of the ingredients - bubbles and foam should form if the yeast is happy.

2. Combine the brown rice flour, corn starch, buckwheat flour, masa harina, xanthan gum and salt in the largest mixing bowl and stir well.

3. In a third bowl, whisk the eggs, oil and vinegar until the eggs are a bit frothy.

4. By this point the yeast mixture should be foamy, so you can pour the two liquid mixtures into the flour mixture. Stir until all ingredients are well mixed and then dump into your bread machine. Cook on the 80 minute setting – the stirring paddle is not necessary.

{Note: I suspect you can just stir this up, put in a bread pan and bake.}

 

[Z...]

Is masa harina essential ingredient?!
I don't think I can find it on my rock.

 

[paralleloscope]

1 ½ c. water

what is a c. ? centiliter?

 

[3DStudent]

what is a c. ? centiliter?

I think a c. is a cup, which is 8 ounces or .237 liters.

 

[herondancer]

Is masa harina essential ingredient?!
I don't think I can find it on my rock.

Masa harina is a form of ground corn meal, specially formulated for tamales and such in Mexican cooking. Regular corn meal is an ok subsitite. You might want to grind it a little finer in a food processor or spice/coffee mill.

I've seen recommendations to grind corn tortillas into meal as another way to substitute for masa harina.

Hope that helps.

Herondancer

 

[Gimpy]

Hubby's been looking for a sandwich bread recipe without gluten, so thanks big bunches!

I'll post results when we get them. :D

 

[Z...]

In fact the lady at the health food shop gave me maize meal flower
she said masa harina is exactly that :)

 

[un chien anadolu]

I have a question. How do you make your own brown rice flour. Are the regular coffee grinders usable for this. I am asking because brown rice is maybe too hard for coffee grinder blades and I did not want to try before asking for any opinions.

 

[rylek]

This is a bit off topic, but just today found imo interesting inspiration for bread. Warning hasn't been tried yet, these are the instructions as they were when I found them.
Also adjustments might be needed for those egg intolerant:

Flax Bread Ingredients
For this recipe we'll need:

* 1/3 cup of oil
* 1/2 cup of water
* 1 teaspoon of salt
* 1 tablespoon of sweetener (not sure how much Stevia that would be)
* 1 tablespoon of baking powder
* 5 eggs beaten together well
* 2 cups of flax seed meal

First preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 Celsius)
Mix Ingredients
In a large bowl, pour the flax seed meal, the sweetener, the salt, and the baking powder and mix well.

Now we'll add oil, the water and the eggs and mix those together well. Let this set for two to three minutes to thicken.

Pour the batter into the pan, once you have it all there, you can spread this out on your pan to whatever thickness you desire, but it should be at least a 1/2 inch think.
Bake at 350 degrees (180 Celsius) for about twenty minutes. And you can pull it out and you just want to push on the bread and if it bounces back a bit it is done. Finally let this cool for about twenty minutes, and then take a spatula or knife and cut the bread as you like.

 

[RyanX]

I have a question. How do you make your own brown rice flour. Are the regular coffee grinders usable for this. I am asking because brown rice is maybe too hard for coffee grinder blades and I did not want to try before asking for any opinions.

To grind your own four by hand you'll want a special hand powered flour mill. A coffee grinder just doesn't give enough leverage and enough volume to be useful, IMO. Even with the special hand-powered flour mills, milling your own flour is hard work and takes a long time! You will quickly gain an appreciation for what our ancestors must have gone through trying to figure out how to make flour with primitive tools. Even with the best hand powered mill, you'll still end up with large bran chunks that you'll either have to incorporate into your recipe or filter our with a sieve.

I actually own one of these, although I've never found a good use for it. I suppose if the power ever went out for a long period of time I could use it to make flour meal for cereals or whatnot. Here is the unit I own:

_http://www.lehmans.com/store/Kitchen___Grain_and_Grain_Mills___Our_Best_Grain_Mill___C17B?Args=

There are also some hand-powered flour mills that can also be configured to hook up to a large square or hex bit on a power drill. I have never used these, personally, but it might be a good choice for those wanting the best of both worlds. I think there are even animal feed variety mills that you can hook up to the PTO on a tractor, but that's probably beyond what most people need!

Otherwise, there are a number of kitchen appliance electric flour mills out there. I highly recommend those if you're interested in saving time and money.

Here is the flour mill I own: _http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ZMI38O?tag=helubuy-20
A family member of mine uses this one and hasn't complained: _http://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Whisper-Mill-worlds-machine/dp/B000CPJKWC

There are a number of them out there if you search around though.

Also, when making rice flour, stick to the short grain brown rice. This variety tend to mill the quickest.

A set of ear-covering headphones are also helpful. Flour mills are loud! :D

 

[un chien anadolu]

Thank you very much for the information RyanX.

To grind your own four by hand you'll want a special hand powered flour mill. A coffee grinder just doesn't give enough leverage and enough volume to be useful, IMO. Even with the special hand-powered flour mills, milling your own flour is hard work and takes a long time! You will quickly gain an appreciation for what our ancestors must have gone through trying to figure out how to make flour with primitive tools. Even with the best hand powered mill, you'll still end up with large bran chunks that you'll either have to incorporate into your recipe or filter our with a sieve.

I was also thinking of electrical grinders rather than hand powered ones.

I actually own one of these, although I've never found a good use for it. I suppose if the power ever went out for a long period of time I could use it to make flour meal for cereals or whatnot. Here is the unit I own:

_http://www.lehmans.com/store/Kitchen___Grain_and_Grain_Mills___Our_Best_Grain_Mill___C17B?Args=

There are also some hand-powered flour mills that can also be configured to hook up to a large square or hex bit on a power drill. I have never used these, personally, but it might be a good choice for those wanting the best of both worlds. I think there are even animal feed variety mills that you can hook up to the PTO on a tractor, but that's probably beyond what most people need!

Otherwise, there are a number of kitchen appliance electric flour mills out there. I highly recommend those if you're interested in saving time and money.

Here is the flour mill I own: _http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ZMI38O?tag=helubuy-20
A family member of mine uses this one and hasn't complained: _http://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Whisper-Mill-worlds-machine/dp/B000CPJKWC

There are a number of them out there if you search around though.

Also, when making rice flour, stick to the short grain brown rice. This variety tend to mill the quickest.

A set of ear-covering headphones are also helpful. Flour mills are loud! :D

Wow. These are exactly what I am looking for. But unfortunately I couldn't manage to find something like these here in Turkey until yet. All I can find is industrial types. Maybe I should search more or buy some industrial type and start a brown rice flour business (there is no brown rice flour in the market) :)

 

[Hildegarda]

To grind your own four by hand you'll want a special hand powered flour mill. A coffee grinder just doesn't give enough leverage and enough volume to be useful, IMO. Even with the special hand-powered flour mills, milling your own flour is hard work and takes a long time! You will quickly gain an appreciation for what our ancestors must have gone through trying to figure out how to make flour with primitive tools. Even with the best hand powered mill, you'll still end up with large bran chunks that you'll either have to incorporate into your recipe or filter our with a sieve.

fwiw, another nifty contraption is VitaMix (_http://www.vitamix.com/index_form.asp). It can work as either a high performance blender or a flour mill/nut butter maker (makes small batches, but very quickly and efficiently).

 

[Z...]

One more question, my bread maker doesn't have an option to set the time of baking, only different programmes which last different time.
There is a gluten free programm which lasts 3:50h but I think this is not just baking time, it probably also includes dough preparation and raising.
It says: For breads made of gluten-free flours and baking mixtures. Gluten-free flours require longer for the absorption of liquids and have different raising properties.

So the question is - I was thinking of preparing everything as suggested in the recipe and then put it in the machine on this programm. What do you all think?

 

[Jacques]

One more question, my bread maker doesn't have an option to set the time of baking, only different programmes which last different time.
There is a gluten free programm which lasts 3:50h but I think this is not just baking time, it probably also includes dough preparation and raising.
It says: For breads made of gluten-free flours and baking mixtures. Gluten-free flours require longer for the absorption of liquids and have different raising properties.

So the question is - I was thinking of preparing everything as suggested in the recipe and then put it in the machine on this programm. What do you all think?

I used to make my bread in that kind of machine. When they say that the program lasts 3h50, it does include everything. So i am not sure if you prepare everything as suggested and you put it in the machine that it is going to work.

But the best way to know it is to try it. ;)

Doing so, you will learn how to master your bread machine and have a better knowledge of what you can exactly do with it. I did that with mine.

 

[thevenusian]

I've been using this recipe the past month. I've noticed the raising time has taken longer- it is fastest if done in a nice warm spot, but still has been about 2 hrs each time. The baking time is only 25 min @ 350 degrees F. I don't use a bread machine, so don't know if this helps with that.
I substitute flax seed meal for the corn meal. Also, at least in the US, be sure to use organic corn starch, as commercial corn starch could contain GMO corn.