Monday, November 17, 2008

Mark De Levie's Low Carb Bread

2 cups organic soy flour
6 tablespoons organic flax seeds, ground to a fine meal
5 tablespoons yeast (new, fresh yeast)
1.5 tablespoons organic wheat gluten
Wet ingredients:
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1.5 cups tepid water

Mix the dry ingredients together, then add the oil and water. Oil a bread pan with virgin olive oil, then spread the mix into the bread pan. Set in a sunny window or some other warm place to rise. Once during rising, press down in several places to collapse the larger CO2 bubbles, then return to warm spot for more rising. Bake in 350F oven for 35-40 minutes. The resulting loaf has a beautiful dark-brown crust, is light brown inside, has a very nice nutty flavour (you taste the flax more than the soy). It's quite dense, and holds its shape when sliced as thin as 1/4". This isn't wonder bread. I sliced it into 16 slices of about 3/8".

OR

2 cups soy flour
4 tbsp. sesame seed (from a suggestion on a.s.d.l-c)
1.5 tbsp. wheat gluten
2 tbsp. yeast (new, fresh yeast)
10 tbsp. flax seed, ground fine
A few shakes of salt
4 tbsp. olive oil
1.5 cups water

Same directions as before. (By the way, no kneading is required. Just mix and spread in bread pan)
The sesame seeds made a big improvement. This loaf still didn't rise as much as I want, so I'll increase the amt. of yeast next time.

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