Thin and Thinner Bread

Thin and Thinner Bread

Makes 14 slices of delicious low carb paleo bread!  Time for a sandwich!

Dry Ingredients:

1 ¼ cups of almond flour

¼ cup of coconut flour

1 ½ tsp. baking soda

1/8 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

1 tbsp. xylitol (or other sweetener of choice)

Wet ingredients:

4 eggs

1/3 cup melted butter

½ cup of cauliflower rice or ½ cup zucchini (see recipe below)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Wisk together the dry ingredients.

In a separate bowl, wisk together the wet ingredients.

Combine the wet and dry ingredients.

Line the bottom of a loaf pan with parchment paper.

Spread dough into the loaf pan.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes.

Let cool for 10 minutes. 

Remove bread from pan and cool on a wire rack.

Directions for cauliflower rice:

Grate ½ of a head of cauliflower, using only the florets, not the stems.

Microwave for 8 minutes.

Use only ½ cup of cooked cauliflower in the recipe.

If using zucchini instead of cauliflower:

Shred 3 peeled zucchini.

Microwave or (heat on the stove) for 8 minutes.

Strain, squeezing out as much liquid as possible.

Use ½ cup of strained zucchini in the recipe

Nutritional Facts per slice (1/14^th) :

Fat:                        11 g       

Protein                 5 g

Carbs                     5 g (3 net carbs)

Fiber                      2 g