
Even though I have no problems digesting gluten, I love baking gluten free.Why? Because our lives are filled with gluten : bread, pasta, couscous, cracked wheat, cakes, cookies, scones, pastries, seitan-you get the drill. So why not eating something that tastes familiar, but completely different?
I was never a wheat-enthusiast anyway. I don’t like pasta, I rarely eat bread, cakes and cookies. So I figured that if they were made with different grains (not necessarily gluten free) maybe I would be more interested in eating something bread-y.
Gluten-free baking is especially challenging when it’s also vegan. You will notice a lot of gluten free recipes uses eggs-a lot of them- to substitute the gluten. 15 egg cake anyone?? No? Thought so…
Other gluten substitutes can be xanthan gum and psyllium husks! Psyllium is very promising since it makes gluten free dough rise like regular dough!
This bread had very good results texture-wise and taste wise, thought the texture is also a bit stickier than regular wheat bread. Its something like a moist brioche bread or bread pudding-Did I just make vegan brioche??

In that case, make a vegan brioche panini and enjoy!
-2 cups whole meal rice flour
-1 cup fine yellow cornmeal flour (non-gmo)
-1/2 cup potato starch
-1/4 cup psyllium husks
-3 tbsp agave syrup
-2 tbsp nutritional yeast (optional)
-1 tsp dry active yeast
-1 tsp xanthan gum
-1 tsp salt (optional)
-1 tsp garlic powder ( optional)
-2 1/2 cups lukewarm water
Combine all the flours and powders (cornmeal flour, rice flour,potato starch, nutritional yeast, xanthan gum, guar gum, salt, garlic powder) together and mix. In a separate bowl mix lukewarm water with agave and active yeast.
Pour the water in the dry ingredients and mix until you a batter is formed. Leave in a warm place to rise for 2 hours and bake for 35 minutes in a preheated oven at 230C.

Let it stand until is cools down before cutting.
Enjoy!