Easy Healthy Grain And Seed Bread - Recipe Winners (2024)

Easy, healthy, grain and seed bread is gluten free and vegan. Bread is the staff of life and Sarah Britton’s ‘bread that will change your life’ recipe is a winner. It’s superbly healthy and ridiculously easy to prepare.

Studded with sunflower seeds, chia seeds and hazelnuts, it’s high in protein and fibre. It’s gluten free and vegan. And its ingredients get soaked for optimal nutrition and digestion.

Best toasted

We were given this recipe by Amanda, Jen’s daughter in law. She makes this bread regularly doubling the recipe and freezing one loaf for later.

Amanda is not so fond of this bread untoasted, but says once toasted it is a game changer and delicious. We fully agree, it’s nutty, textural, toasty with a crunch on the outside, but most of all it’s delicious, and extremely good for you.

Some ideas for toasted Easy Healthy Grain and Seed Bread

• top with some smashed avocado, tabasco, and red onion
• sauteed mushrooms with garlic and parsley
• poached eggs
• hummus with fresh tomato
• whipped feta with marinated tomatoes and basil pesto
• smashed chickpeas with harissa yogurt
• honey and smashed banana
• smoked salmon and cream cheese with lemon

watch how to make easy healthy grain and seed bread

No need to knead

This bread seriously could not be easier to make. Throw all the dry ingredients together, mix water, with ghee or coconut oil and add in maple or honey. Pour liquids over dry ingredients and mix. Let it sit in the bowl for 2-24 hours then bake.

You remove the bread from the tin after 20 minutes cooking and return bread to oven and bake for a further 30-40 minutes. Tap its bottom, and when you have a hollow sound you’re done. Too easy!

Swap out the ingredients

Don’t have oats, use almond flour (almond meal) or rolled spelt.

No hazelnuts, use almonds or any other nuts.

You prefer honey or stevia rather than maple syrup, go ahead and use it.

Don’t have sunflower seeds, use pepitas.

You get the picture….as long as what you’re swapping out is in the same proportions you’ll be cruising.

Friendly Fiber: Psyllium Seed Husks

“You’re probably asking yourself how the heck this bread holds itself together without any flour. Nice observation, and the answer is psyllium seed husks.

Psyllium seed husks are one of nature’s most absorbent fibers, able to suck up over ten times their weight in water. For this reason, you’ll often find psyllium in over-the-counter laxatives, stool-bulking agents and colon cleansing kits.

But what does this have to do with bread? Well, the idea here is to use psyllium to bind all these lovely ingredients together without resorting to flour. There have been some low-carb bread recipes floating around the ‘net as of late that take advantage of psyllium and I think it’s a great idea. Eat delicious bread, have good poops. I’m in!

Psyllium is available at health food stores and most pharmacies. It comes in two forms, the raw husks themselves, and powdered, which are just the husks that have been pulverized. It is easier to take the powdered form as it dissolves easier in water, but that is not important in the case of this bread – either type work just fine”. (directly copied from Sarah Brittons site My New Roots)

Check out some other bread recipes

click on the link for the recipe…Quick No Knead Bread

click on the link for the recipe…..Quick Banana and Pecan Bread

Do you have a healthy bread recipe? We would love to hear from you in the comments below when you make this easy healthy grain and seed bread.

Yield: 1

Easy Healthy Grain and Seed Bread - GF V

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

See Also

The Best Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies | Pasta-based Vegan Recipes

This easy, healthy seed and grain bread is superbly healthy and good for you. Double the ingredients and freeze a loaf!

Ingredients

• sunflower seeds 1 cup
• flax seeds 1/2 cup
• hazelnuts or almonds 1/2 cup
• rolled oats 1 1/2 cups
• chia seeds 2 tablespoons
• psyllium seed husks (3 tablespoons if using psyllium husk powder) 4 tablespoons
• salt 1 teaspoon
• honey or maple syrup 1 tablespoon
• ghee, melted or coconut oil 3 tablespoons
• water 1 1/2 cups

Instructions

• you will need a loaf pan 8 x 4 inch (20cm x 10cm) you do not have to grease the pan
• whisk water, ghee or oil and honey or maple syrup together
• add dry ingredients and combine till everything is completely soaked and dough becomes very thick
• add a teaspoon or 2 of extra water if dough is too thick to stir
• cover bowl and sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours or overnight
• press dough into loaf pan and gently tap on the kitchen bench a few times to settle any air pockets
• when ready to bake heat oven to 350 f (175 c) on bake not fan
• bake on middle shelf for 20 minutes
• remove bread from oven, run a knife around the outside of the bread and remove bread from loaf pan
• place bread on a rack (without the pan) and bake for another 35-40 minutes
• bread is ready when you tap the bottom of the loaf it should sound hollow
• let cool completely before slicing
• serve and enjoy!

psst. it's better toasted!

Notes

• bread keeps well covered in the fridge for a week
• bread freezes well

Nutrition Information

Yield

1

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 2266Total Fat 159gSaturated Fat 32gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 118gCholesterol 33mgSodium 9866mgCarbohydrates 172gFiber 58gSugar 37gProtein 65g

Nutritional information provided here is only intended as a guide.