Breads seem to be the hardest foods to give up because you can do a lot with bread – make french toast for breakfast, have a sandwich for lunch, and prepare bread pudding for the dinner dessert.
But, what if you have an allergic reaction to breads? Or you commit yourself to the Paleo diet which involves eating everything that the early humans used to like vegetables, fruits, meat, and excluding dairy or cereal products?
So, if you have excluded bread from your diet because of your food intolerance or your commitment to certain diets like the Paleo diet, then, you may want to consider these wheat and gluten-free bread recipes.
The recipes mentioned in the list have butter in them because, today, most people on a Paleo diet exclude dairy products like cheese or yogurt but consume butter. Butter has lots of good fats (saturated fats) and very little lactose which means it can barely cause an allergic reaction.
1. Coconut Flour Bread
This recipe is light and slightly sweet and can make a perfect breakfast or snack. When you exclude wheat, it is important to note that two or more kinds of flour are required to substitute it.
Ingredients:
- ¾ cup coconut flour
- ½ cup tapioca flour
- 6 pasture raised eggs
- ½ cup grass-fed butter, melted and cooled slightly
- 1 tablespoon pure honey
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
How To Prepare:
- Preheat your oven to 350°F and use a nonstick cooking spray to spray the bread pan.
- In a bowl, combine the coconut flour, tapioca flour, and baking powder.
- In a mixing bowl, add eggs and beat them until they turn frothy.
- To the frothy eggs, slowly beat in butter, vinegar, and honey.
- Slowly, add the flour mix to the egg mixture while stirring.
- Pour the batter into the greased bread pan and smooth evenly.
- Bake the batter for 30 minutes.
- Flip over to release the bread and cool it for 20 minutes and serve.
2. Homemade Banana Walnut Bread
Bananas are healthy sources of fiber and minerals like potassium. Walnuts, on the other hand, are good brain foods. So, using these foods for your breakfast is a perfect idea.
Ingredients:
- 2 ripe bananas
- ½ cup coconut flour
- ½ cup almond meal
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 tablespoon honey
- ¼ cup organic maple syrup
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup walnuts
How To Prepare:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Take a bowl and mash the two bananas with a fork and keep them aside.
- In another bowl, add coconut flour, almond meal, and baking soda.
- To the bowl of mashed bananas, add the eggs, coconut oil, honey, maple syrup, and applesauce and mix this with an electric mixer.
- Mix both the wet and dry ingredients together in one bowl and add the walnuts to the batter.
- Spray a bread pan with a nonstick spray and pour the batter into it.
- Place the pain in the oven and bake it for 40–50 minutes.
- Occasionally, use a toothpick to make sure the bread is cooked all the way through.
- Remove the baked bread from the oven and place it on a cooling rack.
- After the bread is cooled, cut and serve.
3. Lemon Bread With Lemon Glaze
Lemons are refreshing and to have them in your bread may turn out to be perfect for your snack food. This one comes with a lemon glaze; if you don’t like it skip the glaze part.
Ingredients:
- 6 eggs
- ¼ cup coconut oil or melted butter
- zest from 2 lemons
- Juice from 2 lemons and enough milk (pour the juice of two lemons into a 1 cup measuring cup and add enough milk to the juice until you reach 1 cup)
- 1⁄3 cup pure honey
- 2⁄3 cup coconut flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Ingredients For The Lemon Glaze:
- 2 tablespoons melted butter or coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons pure honey
- 2 tablespoons of milk of your choice
- Zest and juice from 1 lemon
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
How To Prepare:
The Bread
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Combine all the ingredients for the bread in one bowl and mix well.
- Pour the batter into a greased bread pan and bake for 35-45 minutes.
- Remove it from the oven and let it cool.
The Lemon Glaze
- Mix all the glaze ingredients together in a small pot over low heat until it starts to simmer.
- Remove from the heat and let it cool.
- After cooling, place it in the refrigerator to firm up.
- Once the loaf is cooled and the glaze is firmer, pour the glaze over the top of the loaf.
- Refrigerate the loaf for at least 30 minutes so that the glaze is firm on the bread.
4. Homemade Zucchini Bread
This bread is packed with nutrients and is good for your health. Zucchini, bananas, flax seeds, and dates – how healthy can it get! It is a perfect recipe to add some veggies to your diet.
Ingredients:
- ¾ cup coconut flour
- 1 cup grated zucchini or 1 small zucchini
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 10 pitted dates (soaked in water for 30 minutes)
- 3 tablespoons ground flax seeds and 9 tablespoons of water
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 egg
- ½ cup coconut oil
How To Prepare:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Add the 3 tablespoons of flax seeds and 9 tablespoons of water in a bowl, mix well, and place it in the refrigerator.
- In a bowl, mix the coconut flour, baking powder, sea salt, and cinnamon.
- Drain and rinse the dates. Add it to a blender and blend it with enough water until you get a caramel-like consistency.
- After the dates are done, add it to a bowl with zucchini and mashed bananas.
- Take the flax seed water mix from the refrigerator and add the egg and coconut oil to the bowl.
- Mix all the ingredients together.
- Place a baking paper in the bread pan and pour the batter into it.
- Bake the batter for about 20–35 minutes.
- Remove the bread from the oven and let it cool.
- Slice and serve.
5. Pumpkin Bread
This is bread takes very little time to prepare and uses all kinds of spices you would use for brewing your tea like ginger and cloves.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup almond butter (or other nut butter or seed butter)
- ½ cup pumpkin puree
- 1 banana, mashed
- ¼ cup honey (optional)
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 2 chai tea packets (tea spices removed from packets)
- 3 tablespoons coconut flour
- ½ tablespoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
How To Prepare:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Mix the almond butter, pumpkin puree, banana, and eggs.
- Cut open the two tea bags and remove all the tea spices from the tea bags and add to the almond butter mixture.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
- Grease a bread pan and line it with baking paper.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake it for about 45 minutes.
- After cooling, slice, and serve.
So, if you have food sensitivities or follow strict diets that exclude breads from your diet, remember these delicious recipes that can replace breads but at the same time are healthy for you.
