Golden Flax Seed Bread

My greatest weakness that sabotages my fitness goals is not chocolates, although you might have guessed it that. It’s BREAD. I love bread so much that I once wished to live inside a bakery store so I can smell fresh bread 24 hours a day.

But white bread and other refined grains go to the gut and hang out as belly fat. Losing belly fat requires a lot of discipline, including avoiding foods you really love like white bread and other refined carbohydrates. White bread is bad.  Aside from the reason that the bleaching process strips off the grain (used for flour) from essential nutrients, chemicals are added to make the white bread, well, white.

I get migraines when I eat white bread but I still ate because I loved it too much. But since last year, I have refrained eating bread and have been liberated from migraine attacks. I have searched and tried other bread substitutes like brown bread, etc. But it still contain gluten – and promotes belly fat.

Then I found a grain free, sugar free, gluten free recipe online that changed my life!! The taste and texture is so like bread (more like whole wheat bread than white bread) but without the gluten and chemicals!

Kiva’s Golden Flax Seed Bread
Recipe from Kiva Rose – The Medicine Woman’s Roots

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup Hodgson Mill Milled Flax Seed (any brand will do)
• 1/3 cup Bob’s Red Mill Almond Meal/Flour
• 1 1/2 tsp Gluten Free Baking Powder
• 3 tsp olive oil
• 2 eggs
• water (very minimal)

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F (I used 190C)
2. Mix all the dry ingredients.
3. In a separate bowl, lightly beat the eggs and add the olive oil to it.
4. Pour the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
5. Add water little by little just to achieve the texture that is not too wet or dry.
6. Oil the baking pan and pour the batter.
7. Cook for 20-25 minutes until the top is brown or a toothpick comes out clean when inserted.

Now, this in itself is delicious! Not to mention it’s healthy and packed with Omega-3 from the flax seed. But the fun thing is, you can “invent” variations like these:

• Herb bread – by adding chopped rosemary, thyme or dried basil leaves (I made this and it was really good!)
• Cinnamon – by adding cinnamon powder
• Raisin bread – by adding chopped raisins
• Nutty bread – by adding nuts you like!
• Date bread – by adding chopped dates

The bread is delicious straight out of the oven eaten alone or with butter, peanut butter or jam. I even made tuna sandwich out of it and at one point, substituted my white rice with it. It was good! Flax seed is such a revelation. If you’re wondering about the taste, it is more like a whole wheat bread with a nutty twist on it (courtesy of the almond meal).

Now I can enjoy bread without the guilt and most importantly, without the migraine producing chemicals!

Do try it at home!

Tagged as: Bread, diet

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