Simple Bread
Ingredients
- 2½ cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda
- In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs, then add honey, and vinegar
- Stir wet ingredients into dry
- Transfer dough into a well greased mini loaf pan
- Bake at 300°F for 45-55 minutes on bottom rack of oven; until a knife comes out clean
- Cool and serve
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Equipment
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To store this bread, wrap in a paper towel, seal in a plastic bag, and refrigerate for up to 1 week.
This low-carb, high-protein, gluten-free bread is a cinch to make. It is especially tasty toasted, then topped with almond-butter, raspberry jam, and a sprinkle of salt. Add a second slice of bread to it and you’ve got a paleo PBJ!
Here are some of my other low-carb gluten-free bread recipes:
Janie says
Hi Elana, I love your site. I tried the bread and while it’s tasty, it doesn’t look like yours. Mine is brown in color, not golden. Did I do something wrong? I followed your recipe (it really is easy to make). I plan on making your Blueberry Muffins and Chocolate Chip cookies this week-end. Thanks, Elana. Your site is awesome!!
elana says
Courtney-
What can I say other than that you leave the greatest comments and they make me laugh out of sheer happiness for you (and of course your spunky writing style puts a huge smile on my face too).
You have become so confident and creative in the kitchen it is fantastic! I love this adaptation of the simple bread and will try it out myself.
Thanks,
Elana
Courtney says
My mother-in-law has recently been baking “friendship bread”. For those who are not familiar with this bread, IT TAKES 10 DAYS TO MAKE :). She insist I take a starter, but I politely declined. The ingredients are lengthy and I do not care to indulge on the majority of the ingredients listed.
I decided to make SIMPLE Friendship BREAD. I took this recipe and incorporated 1/4 c. agave and 1 tsp. cinnamon. There was just as much love put into this recipe as its counterpart, and I enjoyed all 12 slices with no remorse.
mell says
Hi Elana-I love the recipe for this beautiful bread,i cant wait to try it.I live in Australia and our oven degrees are different from yours-the highest our ovens go are 270 degrees-what would be your advice for the degree and time i should use,thank you.
I also want to thank you for your beautiful almond milk recipe-my little girl cant have any diary and it was so hard getting her off normal milk but with your almond milk its has been great-im going to try your cashew milk next…thanks Elana….from mell
izzy says
hi mel, i think she might be saying its 300 degrees farenheit which is what they use in america. in australia we use celcius so 300 degrees ferenheit is about 150 degrees celcius. hope it helps and i hope its right because im just about to put it in the oven at 150 degrees celcius. please be right. pray for me everyone.
elana says
Hi Helen-
I don’t cook with yeast as I don’t have the patience for the rising time. I do know that there is GF yeast available as many GF bakers use it in their breads. I think if you could use a GF yeast with almond flour that would be ok. Though I’m not sure how it would taste as I haven’t tried this before.
I hope this helps to answer your questions.
Elana
Judy says
In my experience, using yeast with GF flours yields a rough, crumby result. I have a recipe with yeast that uses unsweetened gelatin, Sure-Jell and the expensive but very cool xanthan gum – and the gum is the charm. It provides the little pockets for the yeast to grow in.
Helen Parry says
Is yeast gluten free?
Is ordinary bread made with yeast and say almond flour bad for gluten sensitivity?
This site looks wonderful, I am new today to it.
Jacqueline says
Helen,
Sometimes yeast is grown on wheat bread, making it contain gluten. It’s best to purchase GF yeast.
Jacqueline
Deborah says
My husband always complains about how many carbs are consumed when I make bread, so this really caught my attention. I’ll have to give it a try!!
~M says
Is the Honeywell brand of blanched almond flour better than the Bob’s Red Mill variety?
anna thomas says
I think it is WAY better!
Elana says
Hi M- I haven’t tried the Bob’s Red Mill brand; it retails for close to $15 per pound, whereas the Honeyville sells online for $6.29 per pound inclusive of shipping.
I really like Honeyville, though please let me know what you think of Bob’s Red Mill if that is what you are using.
Elana
Ashley King says
Hi Elena, I was wondering what site I can shop for the Almond Meal flour. I just recently found out I have Celiac Disease and I am having a hard time finding resonable prices online, I have no clue where to even begin. My local stores do not carry much GF products as I live in the country in a small town. I cannot find GF flour anywhere here in my town. Any help would be so greatly appreciative!! Thank you and have a blessed week !!
Ashley King
Thomas says
the link to the almond flour she recommends is in the recipe… there’s also a list on the ingredients page
Julie Knight says
if you have a trader joe’s near you, they sell almond meal at a very reasonable price. where can i find apple cider vinegar made with the ‘mother’? not all are.
christina says
Try http://www.nuts.com for all sorts of gluten free stuff you can buy online.
Andrea says
I buy my almond meal flour from Bob’s Red Mill. It’s quite wonderful.
Although I generally order mine on line, Whole Foods usually carries it.
Enjoy.
margaret dombkoski says
I just purchased almond flour on line from Nuts.com. The price was very reasonable compared to the supermarkets where I live. They carry a full line of gluten-free baking products. I was very pleased with them. Hope this helps.
Jean Barton says
I find all kinds of flour at a site called NUTS.COM. Hope this helps.
anna thomas says
I have read somewhere Bob’s Red Mill has never worked for Elana or her recipes…
Jennifer says
I’ve used both brands and I do like Bob’s the best…and get it for about $8.99/lb here in NH… but the Honeyville is def a better value and is good too.
Lynn D. says
You can buy such foods less expensively on Amazon. Savings are huge if you purchase them on the Subscribe & Save program.
Bev Reimer says
Thanks for this bread recipe. I will give it a try especially since I am avoiding yeast right now. I make a yeast free foccacia from the almond meal but a slice of bread appeals. And thanks for the print this addition in order to print the recipes easier.
Alycia says
Someone told me that if you are trying to avoid yeast or have candida that you should also avoid fermented products like vinegar
Rachel F. says
My doctor told me the same thing. I wonder if substituting lemon juice for vinegar would work…
Bethany says
I use lemon (and some ground flax) and it works beautifully.
I also sometimes add sunflower seeds, other nut meals or use duck eggs in place of chicken eggs. love it for the candida.
nancy says
Hi, some people have problems digesting seeds such as sunflower and if you sprout them a little and then crush them this really helps and makes digestion alot easier.
Suzi D says
In answer to the yeast question, yes you can have vinegar as long as it is apple cider vinegar which is not from a grain and is not fermented the way grains are. It has the ‘Mother’ which is a natural fermenting process that actually helps with leaky gut/candida issues. I use Bragg’s apple cider vinegar for marinades, salad dressings, etc. and am going to try it in Elana’s simple bread recipe. Hope this clears up your dilemma.
Lynn Kiefer says
Is there some liquid missing in the basic bread recipe? I had to add another 2 eggs and about 1 cup of water. It’s baking now. What did I do wrong?
Scilla says
I made this bread & took it out of the oven just now.& it looks okay but the top is really brown while the inside still looks a little gooey…plus it didnt rise at all!suggestions? I did substitute reg salt for the celtic salt soo maybe that was it
Don says
I have tried the almond bread and found the dough heavy and lacking in moisture. Is it alright to add some water to the dough?
Also found that the bread did not raise from the form that I put into the pan. Any suggestions?
maria challis says
yes I found the same thing – most disappointing. I’m from Australia, maybe our almond meal is not the same as almond flour.
Elana Amsterdam says
Hi Maria,
Almond flour and almond meal are very different ingredients and unfortunately almond meal does not work in my recipes. Please see my Almond Flour page for more information:
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/blanched-almond-flour/
Thanks so much for your comment :-)
Elana
Rhonda says
Hi, Here in New Zealand we can only get almond meal not flour. I have found that using almond butter in place of almond flour works well.
Tonya says
You can make your own almond flour by grinding blanched almonds. The only difference between the two is that the flour uses blanched almonds while the meal is using the whole almond which includes the skin.
Darby says
Sorry I meant Flour! Auto correct and typing in haste do now mix well.
Kim says
I agree. I will add, make sure your apple cider vinegar is unpasteurized and unfiltered. This pure apple cider vinegar is unique from other types of vinegar in that it is alkaline forming in the body….so good for you! Can’t wait to try this recipe
Joanna Giangardella says
What about when you make your own from wine?
g says
You can have Braggs apple cider vinegar…which has “the mother” in it. Which are good beneficial bacterial.
Kathryn Treat says
I made this bread this past week and substituted lemon juice for the vinegar as I, too, am avoiding fermented foods. It worked great.
KK says
The exception is if it’s APPLE CIDER vinegar (raw, organic…Bragg’s is good.) as opposed to white vinegar. :) (I just went to a candida workshop. And it is a STRICT diet!)
Mylisa says
Apple Cider Vinegar is GOOD, regular vinegar is what they’re talking about only. Also, agave and regular honey is just as bad as regular sugar. You need to use organic, RAW, local honey or Stevia ONLY if you’re avoiding sugar or on an anti-candida plan. Lastly, fermented products like Kimchi and Sauerkraut are GREAT for killing yeast in the body and should be eaten in bulk.
Mark Winfield says
You are fooling yourself if you think you can get organic honey. With a foraging distance of 12km the chance that the bees haven’t gone to a with pesticide is next to nil. What you should avoid is filtered honey, it could easily be faux honey. For the best chance of getting organic honey maybe get honey that is from NZ.
Christy Stratton says
Great comment!!!
kat says
I know this is an old post but, fermented apple cider vinegar eats candida for lunch!
Linda Von Harten (@harten_von) says
yes, some doctor lead them down the wrong path. Fermented foods actually help get rid of candida. Here’s a site you can take a look at.
culturedfoods.com
David says
I took this recipe and added 1/4 cup of Coconut oil, 1/4 cup of ground chia seed, 1/4 cup of water, 1/4 cup of coconut flour and another 1/2 tspn of baking soda and it came out so moist and “bread like” that EVERYone loves it!
Lynn D. says
Yummy!
Denise Enright says
Hi there, as I realize this is an old post. Thank you Elana for your amazing recipes. It was posted as a simple bread recipe, as you can add to it. I did. I followed David’s suggestions , plus 1/2 cup water. I live above 5,800 feet above sea level. Baking anything is a challenge up here. Bob’s Red Mill is the only almond meal/flour I can find locally(not online) He does state that he uses skinless, blanched almonds,however most of the recipes come out a little more heavy. I feel the addition of the coconut flour and coconut oil help balance this out. Very good simple bread. I don’t have the baking pan, but use a 12 slotted muffin tin. Simple bread on the go. Thank you again.
Janet says
I am in need of gluten free, wheat free and dairy free bread recipes. Would this fall into that category?