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
Need Metric Measurements?
Use the button options below to toggle between US cups and Metric grams!
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.
