Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Coconut Cashew Bread: Paleo, Grain-Free, & Refined Sugar Free!

Today, I just had to make bread, Coconut Cashew Bread! I haven't had bread for a couple of months, since I've been grain free. I don't normally have bread cravings, but there were a few posts on my Facebook feed today that made my mouth water. I just couldn't resist! I had to bake bread.





Luckily for me, I have Nourishing Meals, the new cookbook from Ali Segersten and Tom Malterre of Whole Life Nutrition! In the book, they have lots of recipes for gluten-free breads and even a few grain-free recipes. I adapted their recipe for Coconut Almond Bread and made Coconut Cashew Bread.

Nourishing Meals Cookbook cover


This recipe is by far easier than I could imagined bread making to be! And not only is this recipe Grain-Free, but it's Paleo and Refined Sugar-Free! Triple score!

Coconut-Cashew Bread 
(adapted from Nourishing Meals by Ali Segersten & Tom Malterre)
Wet Ingredients:
5 Pastured Eggs
1/2 cup cashew butter
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup coconut oil
1 tbsp maple syrup

Dry Ingredients:
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup ground flax seeds
2 tbsp arrowroot powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt

Process:
1. Combine all wet ingredients in a food processer and process for 2 minutes

2. Add dry ingredients and process for 4 minutes

3. Add to a greased loaf pan or a nonstick loaf pan

4. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes on top rack

5. Cool on Wire rack for 10 minutes and then remove bread from pan and continue to cool

6. Enjoy!


Shared at: Farm Table Tuesday,    Real Food Wednesday, Scrumptious Sundays  Tempt My Tummy Tuesday 
Whole Foods Wednesday, Slightly Indulgent Tuesday, Party Wave Wednesday, Melt in Your Mouth Monday 
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7 comments:

  1. It might be paleo, but definitely not low carb.

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    1. Here is the carb count from my calculations:

      Apple sauce: 7 gms
      Cashew Butter: 35 gms
      Maple syrup: 13 gms
      Eggs: 5 gms
      Coconut flour: 22 gms (probably more)
      Flax seed flr: 12 gms
      Arrowroot: 14 gms

      Total 108 gms

      I can't tell how many slices the bread yields, but it looks similar to a bread that I make out of almond butter. The almond butter bread has about 90 gms of carbs in each loaf, which comes out to about 7 gms per slice.

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  2. The whole loaf has 2 tbsp of arrowroot, 1tbsp maple syrup, and 1/2 cashew butter. I think one slice serving is pretty low carb in comparison to most bread.

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  3. I would say the 7gms a serving is low-carb, no?

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  4. This looks yummy! What size is the loaf pan you used?

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  5. I am definitely going to try making this-- it looks great!

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  6. What a beautiful loaf of bread! Got this pinned to the Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest and also tweeted it out! :)
    Cindy

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