Josey Baker’s Scrumptious Gluten-Free Bread Recipe

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This incredibly delicious, yet incredibly healthy, gluten-free bread recipe comes from Josey Baker Bread, the fun, new eponymous cookbook from the charming San Francisco–bread maker. With thirty-eight core recipes and lots of variations this new cookbook will teach you how to think like a baker!

Sometimes you need a bread that is so dense, so hearty, so jam-packed full of seeds and grains (and devoid of air) that it will sustain you on your mightiest of adventures. That’s what this bread is for. But that’s not all it is for . . . it’s also gluten-free! That will either entice you or turn you off, but either way I really hope that you give it a shot because it is incredible, and it is suuuper healthy. It’s unlike any other bread in this book, in that there isn’t even any flour in it, and it isn’t fermented—it’s basically just a bunch of seeds held together with a little bit of psyllium seed husk and chia seeds. I started making it in the bakery because we kept having folks come in and ask us for gluten-free bread, and I got tired of saying no. Up until we made this bread, I had mostly been turned off by gluten-free breads, because it seemed like they were all just trying to imitate wheat breads, and failing miserably. But this bread stands on its own—it is gluten-free and proud of it. Special thanks goes out to Sarah Britton, blogger at My New Roots; her recipe inspired this bread.

Josey Baker’s Adventure Bread

Recipe by Josey Baker; Yield: 1 loaf

Tools 

  • measuring cups or scale
  • measuring spoons
  • big mixing bowl
  • oil or nonstick spray
  • loaf pan (about 8″ by 4″ inches)
  • mixing spoons (optional)
  • cooling rack (optional)

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cups rolled oats
  • 1 cup sunflower seeds
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
  • 3/4 cup almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped
  • 3/4 cup flax seeds
  • 1/3 cup psyllium seed husk
  • 3 Tbsp chia seeds
  • 2 tsp sea salt, fine grind
  • 2 Tbsp maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 2 1/2 cups water

Directions

  1. Gather your ingredients and tools.
  2. Toast the seeds. Preheat your oven to 350°F/180°C. Spread the sunflower and pumpkin seeds on a baking sheet and toast until they start to brown, about 15 minutes, stirring halfway between baking.
  3. Measure ingredients. Dump the rolled oats, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, flax seeds, psyllium seed husk, chia seeds and sea salt into a big bowl.
  4. Then pour in all the wet stuff [maple syrup, olive oil and water]
  5. Mix it all up, scoop into pan. Oil your loaf pan, and then mush up your “dough” real good with your strong hands or a big spoon. Take pride in your mush-job, this is all of the handling you’re going to do with this “dough.” Once it’s mixed real good, scoop it into your oiled pan and smooth out the top so it looks nice. Then stick that guy in the fridge and leave it alone for at least a few hours, up to a whole day.
  6. Bake it. Put a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400°F/200°C. Bake for about an hour or so, then take it out and gently remove the loaf from the pan. Let it cool on a cooling rack for at least 2 hours (YES, two whole hours). Don’t rush it here folks, this bread is D*E*N*S*E, and if you don’t wait for it to cool, it really won’t be as yummy.
  7. Toast and eat. This bread is definitely best sliced nice and thin (around ½ inch/12 mm) and then toasted up and spread with whatever your heart desires. And don’t worry, if you’re adventuring somewhere without toaster access (like a gorgeous river in the middle of nowhere), it will still be scrumptious, I promise.

5 thoughts on “Josey Baker’s Scrumptious Gluten-Free Bread Recipe”

  1. i finally gathered all the necessary ingredients and OMG this recipe is super delicious!!! i have to remember there are others in this house and that i need to share because quite honestly i could/want to eat the whole thing on my own. thanks for sharing this recipe. i will be moving it into my permanent collection :D !!!

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