Food Friday:Lentil Bread

Still working on not eating anything made from flour for the whole month of March, I found that I really miss eating stuff slapped on slices of bread. After a little bit of research I found a recipe for lentil bread.

This recipe has only a few ingredients which we had so I went ahead and made it.

Lentil Bread 

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.  Get out a silicon loaf pan or a regular pan that you line with parchment paper with flaps hanging over the edges to make it easier to lift out the loaf of bread when it is cooked.

1 1/2 cups lentils which need to be soaked in water overnight.

Drain and rinse the lentils then put them in a blender along with:

1/2 cup water

1 Tablespoon olive oil

3/4 teaspoon salt

When the above slurry is very smooth, pour mixture into a bowl then add:

1/2 cup tapioca starch/flour

1 Tablespoon psyllium husks

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Mix well then pour into your bread pan and bake for 50-60 minutes.  

Let cool for about 10 minutes then remove from pan and cool on rack until cool.

You can now slice it and put on it whatever you want to. 

 For this loaf we made some garbanzo bean/sweet relish/chopped onion/chopped celery/mayonnaise filling.  It is sort of like vegan tuna salad.  It worked very well.