Home baked healthy bread

I try to steer away from bread as much as possible- most shop bought loafs are full of a lot of stuff that I do not want to be putting in my body, not to mention all of that gluten!

However it is pretty difficult to resist sometimes and I find that resisting urges always leads to failure and over-indulgence in the end so I make my own to ease the cravings and make sure it is as healthy and natural as possible. Moreover I know what has gone into it!

This is a really easy recipe that makes a smallish loaf that resembles irish soda bread in taste and texture- in other words delish!!

Ingredients:
250g Spelt flour
250g gluten free flour
1 sachets easy yeast
around 350ml warm water
2 tsp Salt

Combine the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl then mix in the enough water until you have a nice firm dough then tip out onto a flour board and knead well for 5 minutes. Transfer back into you mixing bowl and cover with some cling film and place somewhere warm to rise- around 90 minutes or so should be enough.

After it has risen knock back the dough and transfer into a well oiled (olive) loaf tin and bake at around 180C fan for 40 minutes. When cooked the bread  should give off a hollow sound when tapped on the underside.

This bread is great toasted and smothered in butter, or fried in some olive oil and topped with a poached egg!