Stealthy Mom: Gluten Free (breads)

Gluten Free Corn Bread

Cornbread. For anyone who can't have wheat flour and misses this moist-yet-crumbly quick bread, I have a treat for you! Enjoy it with a big pot of beans or on its own with butter and honey.

1 cup non-GMO corn meal
1 cup Bob's Red Mill gluten free flour
1/4 tsp xanthan gum (if on hand)
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

1 cup milk
2 eggs
1/4 cup blackstrap molasses

Preheat the oven to 375F. Grease a 12-inch square baking pan with either coconut oil or butter.

Mix all dry ingredients together in one bowl. Add the milk, eggs and molasses. Mix it together really well, then pour it all into the baking pan.

Bake until a knife comes out clean, about 20 minutes.

[This particular pan made me proud. Living in a rural area, it has taken me months to find all of the ingredients to get it just right: non-GMO corn meal, non-GMO and non-aluminum baking powder, local barnyard eggs, fair trade molasses and grass-fed milk.]

I shared this recipe with these natural recipe collections: Fight back Friday, Foodie Friday, Fat Tuesday, Slightly Indulgent Tuesday the Hearth and Soul Hop, Gluten Free Wednesdays and Real Food Wednesday.

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Gluten Free Flour Tortillas (vegan)

Who doesn't like a tortilla? They are faster to make than a pita and work well to scoop up curries and dips, and to wrap burritos and fajitas. Generally, the soft ones are made with wheat flour, but I worked out this recipe using Bob's Red Mill all purpose gluten-free flour. (Bob's uses a lot of garbanzo flour in the blend, so the tortillas overpower subtly flavoured dips like hummus.)

For this Gluten Free version, follow the instructions for (wheat) Flour Tortillas using these ingredients:

2 cups Bob's Red Mill all purpose gluten-free flour
2 tsp baking powder
4 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 tsp lite salt
3 tbsp olive oil
3/4 cups warm water

While you will not need to knead the dough per se, you will need to work the ingredients into a ball like play-doh. It will also need to sit for a few minutes to set up before you break it into 8-12 smaller balls to roll out. If it is too hard to roll out after it sets up, add a little more water, a tablespoon at a time, giving it time to soak in. Before rolling out, you may find it helpful to spray a small area of your table with either oil using a pump sprayer or non-stick cooking spray.

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