Low carb bread with a "wholegrain-feel"

arcticgirl · Mar 6th 2012, 9:04pm

What I love about low carb baking is that it's so easy: No hour-long waits for the bread to rise, just mix the ingredients together and pop it in the oven. Here is the recipe for my favourite low carb bread. One reason that I like this recipe is it demands no mysterious ingredients that you have to venture to a health food store to get.

Recipe for one bread:

4 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
150 grams Creme Fraiche
60 grams natural bran
40 grams linseed
50 grams sesame seeds
50 grams sunflower seeds

Mix ingredients and pour into a bread tray covered with baking paper.
Bake at the bottom shelf on 180 degrees (C) for around 50 minutes.

Enjoy it for example with butter and brie, cheese with some ham and capsicum. Or with peanut butter and sugar-free jelly (if you can handle the extra carbs from peanut butter). Super-healthy and leaves you full and with a stable blood sugar for hours and hours

For a photo, see my blog:
aussie-lowcarb-living.blogspot…12/03/low-carb-bread.html

(For the bread on the photo I've also used pumpkin seeds, and switched linseeds for LSA, as I didn't have linseed)

Morte · Mar 6th 2012, 10:10pm

From the photos it looks a little flat, but certainly edible.

How do you think it'd go, sliced thinly and dried out in the oven, to make crisp breads?

Can't wait to try this, as I'm dying for crackers to have with some brie

arcticgirl · Mar 6th 2012, 10:24pm

Yep, it's flat... That's one downside to low-carb baking. Sometimes I miss the "fluffiness" you get when using flour and yeast. I suppose you could try to make crisp breads from it.
I don't think though that I have used eggs before when making crisp-breads.
You could also try this recipe:

200 g sunflowerseeds
50 g linseed
50 g sesame seeds
50 g natural bran
2 heaped dessert spoons of psyllium husk
1/2 tsp salt
a pinch of sweetener
500 ml water

The recipe is from a Norwegian blog, here's the address with some photos

hanseloggretel.blogspot.com.au…06/nannahs-knekkebrd.html

Sherrie · Mar 6th 2012, 10:48pm

Low Carb Crackers might want to scroll down to the savoury grain free crackers recipe which is apparently quite good.

arcticgirl · Mar 6th 2012, 10:51pm

Morte, here is another recipe that I think you might enjoy. These are crispy almond crackers that are HEAVENLY with some brie on.
I've linked to the Norwegian blog where I found it, so you can see some photos: linn-sin-verden.blogspot.com.au/search/label/mandelkjeks

200 ml almond flour
100 ml sesame seeds
2 egg whites
1/2 tsp ocean salt
1 tsp erythritol
2 tsp psyllium husk

Mix ingredients, then form round balls that you squeeze flat on baking paper. Sprinkle with ocean salt. Bake on 180 degrees C for 20-25 minutes

arcticgirl · Mar 6th 2012, 10:54pm

Sherrie wrote:

Low Carb Crackers might want to scroll down to the savoury grain free crackers recipe which is apparently quite good.

These look yummy, Sherrie

Sherrie · Mar 6th 2012, 10:58pm

I'm not a cracker person so I haven't tried any, not even the old grated parmesan (chocolate is my thing :p) so I can't recommend any with confidence but those ones have been mentioned a few times in diaries etc and were raved about.

Morte · Mar 7th 2012, 12:18am

Thanks Sherrie, thanks acticgirl ... I'm going to give some/all of those a try, and see what tastes best.

Janet haskayne · Jul 28th 2016, 8:15pm

I can not see how many carbs per slice or How many slices in a loaf ?

Sherrie · Jul 28th 2016, 10:16pm

You would have to work out the carbs for the ingredients for the entire loaf then divide that by how many slices you want. Say you get 20g then you would know if you cut it into 10 slices it would be 2g per slice.

I am thinking psyllium husks would be better to use then bran?

Sherrie · Jul 29th 2016, 12:07pm

Ok I did some research for you, its not easy because some ingredients are very hard to find an accurate carb count for.

You need to be careful which bran you use for example oat bran is very high. Using calorie king I found one brand for you that would be suitable, it was McKenzies Natural Unprocessed Bran raw which is 9.9g per 50g then I took to the excel version of food standards for the seeds, which is most recent. Counts for Creme Fraiche will depend on brand, look for 2.9g per 100g

So these are my carb counts for you for the entire loaf:

Eggs (xl)	0.6g
Bran	9.9g
Sunflower	4.4g
Linseed	0.8g
Sesame	3.1g
Baking Powder	2.5g
Creme Fraiche	4.4g
Total	25.7g

Wasn't too far off!

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