Delicious Rustic Gluten Free Sourdough Bread Recipes

GLUTEN FREE SOURDOUGH STARTER RECIPE

Steps:

• To make the gluten free sourdough starter, add starter ingredients to a non-reactive bowl or container made of glass, stainless steel or food-grade plastic. Whisk together until no lumps are present and all the flour is incorporated, then set aside with a loose cloth covering the top. The room should be at least 70F, or place it in a warmer location like near your oven or in a warmer room. Allow the starter to sit, loosely covered, for 24 hours then discard half the starter (about 1/2 cup). Add to the remainder of the starter another 1 cup (135 grams) gfJules Flour All-Purpose Flour (or 1/2 cup gfJules and 1/2 cup alternate GF flour listed above) and 1 cup cool filtered water (if your kitchen is particularly warm) or lukewarm filtered water (if your kitchen is particularly cold). Re-cover and allow the mixture to rest for 24 hours. At this point, the starter should show signs of activity, but if not, don't despair, and don't throw it out! Repeat the halving and discarding and replenishing step every 12 hours (or as your schedule allows) until the starter begins to bubble and rise (becomes active). If it does not seem active after 2 days of this feeding cycle, try one or more of these things: stir in another 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar; switch to 100% of whole grain gluten free flours listed above; stir in 1 Tablespoon honey; or try moving it to a warmer location. *Also, be sure your starter is not too thick. It should be the consistency of pancake batter, not dough.* Add more filtered water if necessary -- if the starter is too thick, it cannot bubble and grow. Once it seems to have come alive, continue feeding the starter 2 times a day in the same way (discard + add flour and water). You can place some of the more active discards in a separate container if you're like me and can't bear to throw it away each time! Then you'll have simultaneous starters going. The discard process gives the yeast proportionately more food to digest each time it's fed, so it's a necessary part of the process. Continue this process for 7 days OR until the starter doubles in volume or looks very bubbly and active within 6 hours after feeding. At that point, feed one more time, then allow to rest for 6 -12 hours before using. If not using for a recipe right away, or after using some in a recipe, with remaining starter, transfer to another container that can be covered and placed in the refrigerator until ready to use. If the container has a lid, DO NOT tighten it completely. Feed starter once a week if stored in the refrigerator. As I mentioned earlier, I found it hard to part with any starter by tossing it down the drain, but traditional methods say to feed the starter and then discard all but 1/2-1 cup of starter; many times, I divided it into another container and gifted the starters to ambitious gluten free friends. You could also use excess starter (once active) for other recipes like coffee cakes, scones, muffins, pancakes ... just use your gluten free starter in place of yogurt or sour cream or even milk in many recipes! Every time you use the starter for baking, pull it out the night before to allow it to come to room temperature and feed it again. Ideally it would be fed and sit for 12 hours before using. Once you've added the starter to your recipe, feed the remaining starter again and return to the refrigerator. Note that you may use your gluten free sourdough starter right from the refrigerator, whether you've fed it again or not. If you have recently fed it, it will be more active, but even if not, it should still rise your dough. Allowing it to come to room temperature first will bring faster fermentation though. Now that you have your active starter, you're ready to bake your gluten free sourdough bread! Scroll down further in this post for the GLUTEN FREE SOURDOUGH BREAD recipe.

DELICIOUS, RUSTIC, GLUTEN FREE SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Generously grease 9x5 inch bread pan with grapeseed or olive oil.
• 2. In a mixing bowl, add warm milk & honey, and whisk in yeast. Cover and allow to proof for 10-15 minutes. When mixture is nice and bubbly it is ready to use.
• 3. In a small bowl, melt coconut butter, allow to cool, and mix in xanthan gum. Mixture will be pasty. In the meantime, add Bob's Red Mill GF all purpose flour, Bob's Red Mill hazelnut flour, baking soda, & sea salt. Mix thoroughly.
• 4. With a paddle attachment, add flour mixture to proofed yeast, honey, and milk mixture. With speed on low, mix together. Add butter/xanthan gum mixture. Be sure to scrape sides of bowl into the mixture. Add GF Sourdough batter. Turn speed to medium high & mix well for 5 minutes. Again, be sure to scrape sides down into mixture. Mixture will be thick and sticky, much like a brownie mix.
• 5. With rubber spatula,spoon mixture into prepared bread pan, smooth out top with spatula. Cover and place in oven with oven light on. Fill a shallow dish with boiling water and put in bottom of oven. Allow dough to rise until doubled in size, approximately one hour.
• 6. When dough has doubled in size, gently remove from oven. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Place bread in middle of oven, on a baking sheet. Refill shallow baking dish with hot water and place back in bottom of oven. (I use a metal bread pan filled 3/4 way full) Bake for 40-45 minutes. Top will be a nice golden brown. Remove from oven & allow to cool in baking pan 5 minutes. Then remove and allow to finish cooling on wire rack for 30 minutes. NOTE: because our bread baked over the side of the bread pan a bit, I used a butter-knife to loosen bread from pan to remove without tearing.
• 7. This is a nice thick, chewy bread. Tastes much like a Rustic sourdough bread. My daughter likes hers with Tofutti cream cheese and apple butter. Tastes great with real butter as well! It also makes a great sandwich bread!