Home made gluten free bread with raw nut butter

Are you lethargic and often get brain fog?  You might be sensitive to gluten!  Gluten de-sensitizes important nutrient absorbers in the colon called "villi".  When villi cannot absorb nutrients, the body suffers, and the brain is the first to feel the effects.

You may most probably buy gluten free bread in the supermarkets but today, why not try making this home made and new gluten-free bread from the following ingredients I put together in a bread maker:

• 2 cups gluten free flour
• 1 cup tapioca flour
• ½ cup cornmeal
• ½ cup flax seed meal
• 1 tsp salt 
• 2 Tbsp sesame seeds  
• 1¼ cup water 
• 1½ Tbsp apple cider vinegar 
• 2 Tbsp oil
• 1 Tbsp honey
• 2 tsp baking powder (aluminium free) 
• 1 tsp dry yeast 

Directions

1. Pour water, oil, honey and vinegar into bread pan.  
2. Combine all the flour, corn and flax seed meal, salt and sesame seeds and add to pan.
3. Make a small pocket in the top and place yeast in the pocket.  Wipe any spills from around the pan.
4. Place the bread pan into the bread maker and close the lid. 
5. Use the basic cycle of any bread maker, and select 750g loaf size.  Bread will be baked in the number of hours indicated.
6. When baked, allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before slicing. 
   

 
While the bread is being baked, Try making this raw, non-diary and no-cholesterol nut butter.  First blend the following ingredients in a powerful blender till smooth or crunchy, transfer to a plastic container or glass jar and refrigerate. 

Nut butter ingredients

• 1 cup raw almond nuts
• 1 cup raw cashew nuts 
• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil (first cold pressed)
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
• 1 tsp Celtic sea salt
• 1/4 cup parsley herbs

Hot freshly baked bread with raw nut butter! 
Yum...

©Joy Madden, September 2013