A paleo, gluten free and low carb flatbread made with broccoli and coconut flour. Bright, colourful and delicious.
A bread from broccoli? Madness you cry! After a day playing around with cauliflower, I looked at a large bunch of broccoli I had in the fridge and thought to myself "Dare I?". I did and I loved the result. It's something you could have fun playing around with by adding other flavourings and perhaps some cheese too. I baked it in a square cake tin and the result was a soft yet firm flat bread. You could make a decent sandwich out of this or even toast it. I had some with salsa, the Chief Taster had an open sandwich with his half. Freak the children out! Give them a green sandwich! Hee hee...Oooh, something healthy and green for St Patrick's' Day perhaps?
I put basil in it to give it a bit of flavour but this is optional. If you don't have coconut flour, I think almond flour or even ground flax seeds would still work. Move over cauliflower rice, you have a new contender from broccoli!
UPDATE: - I've now baked this with ground flaxseed in place of the psyllium powder and it works out great!
Broccoli Bread
Ingredients
- 1 large head of Broccoli trimmed into florets (should make about 4 cups of riced broccoli)
- ¼ cup fresh basil can be optional
- 2 tblspn coconut flour
- 1 tblspn psyllium husk powder OR 2 tblspn ground flaxseed
- 2 eggs
- ½ tspn baking powder
- ½ tspn salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C/375F degrees.
- Place the broccoli and basil into a food processor and blitz until "rice like".
- Add the remaining ingredients and blitz until combined well.
- Line a tin with grease proof paper and pour the mixture into the tin, smoothing evenly.
- Bake for 30 minutes until firm and golden at the edges.
- Eat and enjoy!
Notes
(With ground Flaxseed) Nutrition: Per square serving: 117 Calories; 5g Fat; 7g Protein; 13g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber; 6g Net Carb
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator.
Josie
Do you think this would work with flax eggs? I'm allergic to eggs
Angela Coleby
I think it would.
Divalicious
I've now tried this with ground flaxseed in place of the psyllium powder and it worked out just fine. I think I might actually prefer that version and it's lower in carbs too! I've updated the recipe with this. Happy baking! 🙂
Veena
Hello,
I tried making this recipe but the bread completely fell apart. 🙁 I am not sure what it was that I did wrong. Maybe, I riced the broccoli in an incorrect way? (I did use a food processor).
Oh well, it's broccoli so I am going to eat it all up anyway. 🙂
I am planning to try one of you all-coconut flour bread recipes today.
You are the first low carb recipe maker i have seen who creates such a huge variety of a bread recipes. I suppose you are a bread lover. Please keep them coming! 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
-- Veena
Divalicious
Hmm.. Wonder what happened there..perhaps another egg to bind would help. I have made this a couple of times and use a food processor too. Am glad you are enjoying the recipes! Thanks for popping by and keep the feedback coming!
Veena
Hello there,
This recipe looks extremely tempting! Could you suggest a replacement for the psyllium husk powder?
Thank you for your time!
Divalicious
Hi Veena! Glad I'm tempting you! You could use ground flaxseed instead. I use the psyllium powder as a binder and flaxseed should be fine. Hope you enjoy it!
Veena
Thank you so much for your prompt response! 🙂 Very kind of you.
I have a lot of flaxseed meal waiting to be used at home. Going to try this! 😀
Thank you once again!
Divalicious
I hope you enjoy it!
Mark
When you say "line a tin..." Do you mean a loaf pan or a square pan? Thanks 🙂
Divalicious
Hi Mark, I mean a square pan tin (it's what I used). Enjoy!
Nilla
Could you please give pan dimensions on your recipes? The "small pan" vs. the appearance of the bread slices is confusing. I'm new to this, looking forward to trying your tempting recipes, and pan size would help me a lot. Thank you!
Divalicious
Hi Nilla, I use a square tin which is 8 x 8 inch (20 x 20 cm). I cut mine into strips for the picture for a midday snack! I hope you enjoy the baking and thanks for popping by!