Gluten-free flours can be quite expensive. I’m not talking about mixes, which can be exorbitantly expensive, but about natural flours, which also have a higher price compared to wheat flour. So I looked for the most affordable version of bread, which would be made of natural ingredients, tasty and easy to make. You already know that I like millet flour, so I wondered: does it work from millet seeds? I found some variants of millet seed bread on different sites, but there were things there that I didn’t like, or it had baking powder, or some unnatural additives, so I started experimenting and I arrived to the recipe below. It is very easy to make, elastic, you can cut thin slices for the sandwich, tasty and costs between 5 and 7 lei, depending on where you get the ingredients.
Ingredients
- 300 grams of millet seeds
- 14 grams of psyllium bran
- 40 grams of tapioca starch
- 7 grams of yeast (1 sachet)
- 10 grams of raw sugar (or whatever you have)
- 6 grams of salt
- 240 grams of water
Recipe Method
Millet seeds are soaked 8-10 hours before. Wash after 3-4 hours and wash once more before putting them in the blender. Activate the yeast in 140 grams of lukewarm water, along with the sugar. It should make small bubbles in about 10 minutes. We also put the psyllium bran on top of the yeast, mix well and let them hydrate. Meanwhile, mix the millet seeds well with the remaining 100 grams of water in the blender. When you get a thin milky paste, add the tapioca starch and salt, mix together for another 1-2 minutes, then put in the mixture of yeast and bran. We mix until we get a homogeneous and sticky dough, which we extract from the bowl of the mixer and, with our hands greased with oil, we form the bread, we put it in the tray (a small tray, 20x11x7), it should occupy three quarters of it, we smooth it well and leave it covered with a plastic foil for 30-50 minutes, as long as it takes to rise, depends on room temperature. Meanwhile, we heat the oven at 200 degrees. Leave for 15 minutes at 200 degrees, then lower the temperature to 175 degrees and leave for another 45 minutes, for a total of 60 minutes. Remove from the pan, cover with a cloth towel and allow to cool. It can be stored for 2-3 days wrapped in a cloth towel at room temperature, then, along with that towel, put it in a plastic bag and store for another 5-6 days in the refrigerator. Or we can slice it and keep it in the freezer for longer.