Here is this week's gluten free menu plan. I made notes next to the ingredients that need to be gluten free, but as always read labels to be sure that the ingredients are safe for your family. The post Gluten Free Menu Plan February Week 4 appeared ...
Here is this week’s gluten free menu plan. I made notes next to the ingredients that need to be gluten free, but as always read labels to be sure that the ingredients are safe for your family.
Gluten Free Menu Plan February Week 4
Gluten Free Menu Plan for the third week of February.
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This gluten free sourdough sandwich bread is the perfect sourdough bread for making sandwiches.
This recipe has been years in the making. I have adjusted the recipe and tried different things, and finally got what we think is the perfect gluten free sourdough sandwich bread.
Years before I went gluten free I made regular sourdough. A couple of years ago, I started experimenting with gluten-free starter. After a lot of experimenting, I am finally sharing some gluten-free sourdough recipes.
I am starting with gluten-free sourdough sandwich bread, which is one of my favorites. It is also a recipe that is so good everyone can enjoy it.
Yes, gluten free bread can be delicious. My husband, who does not have to eat gluten-free, eats this bread all the time.
Let me start by saying that this isn’t a true sourdough bread. It contains sourdough starter, but since it also contains yeast, it is not a true sourdough. I also do not let the dough rise for an extended period.
I call this a sourdough sandwich bread because it contains sourdough starter, but I know that it is not a true sourdough. It is, however, delicious!
This recipe also uses individual gluten-free flours, not a gluten-free blend.
I experimented with this recipe for over a year. I tried different blends and different individual flours. The gluten-free blends I tried, including my favorite, Bob’s Red Mill 1 to 1 Blend, had a slightly gummy texture. They just weren’t quite right. They were okay, but not good enough to share with you.
Once I started experimenting with the individual flours and added some whole-grain gluten-free flours, the results were amazing.
I have a gluten-free sandwich bread that I love and have made for years, but this one is my new favorite. This is the only bread I now make for sandwiches.
That is how good this gluten free sourdough sandwich bread is.
Look at the texture of that gluten free sandwich bread!
It makes the best gluten-free toast, sandwiches, French toast, and more.
If you have a gluten free sourdough starter, this is a recipe that you need to make.
I do want to say that although this bread is delicious, I would not consider it a beginner gluten-free recipe unless you have a lot of bread-baking experience.
If you have baked a lot of bread in the past, you will probably do fine making this as long as you remember that gluten free dough is totally different than regular dough. It has a very different texture since it doesn’t have the gluten.
So if you are new to gluten-free and have not done a lot of gluten-free baking, you might want to wait to make this recipe until you have more gluten-free baking experience.
This is what the gluten free soughdough sandwich bread dough looks like. It is a lot wetter and stickier than regular dough.
It also doesn’t really shape into a loaf. You just dump and spread it into the bread pan.
However, it does rise up into a nice loaf.
And after it bakes, it makes a beautiful loaf of gluten-free bread.
Ingredients
active dry yeast
water
oil, canola or vegetable oil, but olive oil works too
The best gluten free sourdough bread for making sandwiches.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Additional Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour50 minutes
Ingredients
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
1 3/4 cups warm water (about 110 degrees)
1/3 cup oil, canola or vegetable oil
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup fed/active gluten free sourdough starter
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon xanthan gum
1 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup teff flour
1/4 cup sorghum flour
3/4 cup potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca starch
1 1/2 tablespoon whole psyllium husk
Instructions
In the bowl of a mixer, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add sugar and let sit for about 5 minutes.
Add egg, oil, and gluten free sourdough starter. Mix until combined.
In a separate bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. I whisk them together so that they are well combined.
Slowly add the flour mixture to the yeast mixture. Mix using the dough hook of an electric mixer.
Mix for about 5 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl a few times. You do not knead this like regular bread dough, but it does need to be mixed well. I have found about 5 minutes is a good time. It is really sticky you can add a 2 or so more tablespoons of rice flour if needed, but it will not be the same texture as regular yeast dough.
Spread dough into a greased loaf pan.
Cover with a kitchen towel and let rise for about 1 hour.
Bake at 375 for 30 – 32 minutes.
Remove from pan and let cool on wire cooling rack.
Let cool completely before slicing.
Notes
I used Bob's Red Mill Xanthan gum, rice flour, teff flour, and sorghum flour, and tapicoa flour. Other brands may work, but the texture may vary.
Here is this week’s menu plan. I made notes next to the ingredients that need to be gluten free, but as always read labels to make sure that your ingredients are safe for your family.
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If you have considered making gluten-free sourdough, you need to give gluten-free sourdough starter a try.
Long before I started eating gluten-free back in 2009, I made sourdough. It was back in the early 2000s when sourdough had a resurgence of sorts. I say of sorts, because sourdough has been around for generations and generations. I don’t think it has been unpopular, but it does seem to have periods where it is more popular.
My mom actually did sourdough back in the 1970s, so I have been acquainted with sourdough for years.
I loved making sourdough bread, pancakes, and more. I had so much fun experimenting with sourdough recipes. I even ground my own wheat for quite a few years.
And then I went gluten free.
When I went gluten free in 2009, it was not nearly as popular as it is today. There were very few gluten-free products available at my local grocery stores, and even online, there were very few gluten-free flour blends.
Gluten free baking was totally different than regular baking, especially when it came to yeast breads, so I assumed my years of making sourdough were done.
That is, until about 2021. Sometime in 2021, I started thinking that I might want to try sourdough again, but this time gluten-free.
I started a gluten-free starter from scratch and spent several months experimenting with gluten-free breads. My starter was great, but I had quite a few failures when it came to making gluten-free sourdough bread.
Then my health took a turn for the worse, and my gluten-free sourdough started suffering. It didn’t just suffer, it died due to a lack of care.
I gave up gluten-free sourdough for a while, but in 2024 I decided to give it another try.
After over a year of experimenting with my gluten-free sourdough starter and quite a few gluten-free sourdough recipes, I am ready to start sharing my experiences and recipes.
Today I am starting by sharing how I started my gluten free sourdough starter.
Over the last few years, I have started several gluten-free sourdough starters from scratch; some have been more successful than others.
It has been my tried and true favorite way to start and feed my sourdough starter, so this is one of the times, instead of sharing my recipe, I am sending you to the recipe I think is best.
I think most people overcomplicate sourdough, especially the starter. That goes for gluten free sourdough starter as well.
Sourdough and sourdough starter have been around for centuries. Back a hundred-plus years ago, people weren’t using scales or exact measurements for their sourdough.
They were using what they had where they were. People on the Oregon Trail, or pioneers on the prairie, or chuck wagon cooks on cattle drives, were not using scales to measure out fancy flours.
Yet, they still made sourdough day after day.
So, yes, I think modern-day bakers and social media influencers complicate sourdough to stand out and be unique.
Yes, gluten free sourdough is a little more complicated than regular sourdough, but it doesn’t have to be complex.
If I can make gluten free sourdough without fancy tools or ingredients, so can you!
I have several gluten-free sourdough recipes to share over the next few months, so get your gluten-free sourdough starter going!
And in case you are wondering what the rubber band on the jars in the pictures above is for, it is so that you can tell when your sourdough has risen enough. I put it on the jar, and then after I feed the starter I move the rubber band to where the starter is. Then you can tell how much it has risen.