I'm doing the live fit workout by Jamie Eason,
and I came across one of the foods that I've never even heard of: Ezekiel
Bread. So I googled it, and turns out it came from the bible, hence the name! Silly
me. Well back in the Philippines, we just have bread every morning, then rice
the rest of the day. We have Pan De Sal, (hey I’ve perfected its wheat version
check it out!) and "tasty" (white bread) and mamon and lotsa others.
And yes they contain gluten. And yes they use pork lard in making it. And yes,
they are so, so, so cheap.
But I'm not backing home, isn’t I? Sad. So I discover gluten, I discover olive
oil, I discover bean breads.
"Wheat isn't
recommended because it doesn't digest as easily. It contains gluten and turns
to a gel like substance when digested. Also, many wheat breads are just
enriched white breads." - Jamie Eason"
Bye, gluten! Bye, wheat flour! Bye cakes and sweet treats! Or....NOT. Hell
no. I'm not gonna give up gluten. I LOVE BAKING SO MUCH I'M GOING TO
DIE FOR NOT EATING ANY. rant rant rant
Turns out not eating too much gluten is nice. It’s like giving
your taste buds a feel of guilt free indulgences; unlike that feeling when you
ate bread then you feel awful after.
"The Ezekiel
4:9 brand of bread comes in a variety of flavors and is owned and marketed by a
company that was started in 1964 called Food for Life Baking Company Inc. Even though it is made with sprouted grains and has
a low glycolic level this bread is soft and does not taste like cardboard. The
bread packaging ranks 36 on the glycolic index which is a useful tool to gauge
how different foods affect blood sugar levels. It’s also makes a pretty good
tasting, wonderful toast and the combination of grains makes for a good balance
of amino acids to provide a complete protein as well. In fact, it contains all
9 nine essential amino acids is low in fat, has no Trans fats or cholesterol
and is relatively low in sodium."-wikipedia
WOW LOOK AT THAT JACKPOT! However, this is to darn expensive. So I
browsed and browsed the World Wide Web and found an array of recipes for this
expensive bread. Mind you, this is a tweaked and “perfected”(hahahahahaaha)
recipe based on my liking, with an accumulation of different recipes I came
across. I still call it an Ezekiel Bread for the presence of the beans and some
of the grains mentioned in the bible. Some recipes even called for white bread
flour, which doesn’t make any sense, because Ezekiel didn't have over processed bread flour back then. He had grains, and that's pretty much it!
Ingredients:
1/4 cup
Water
1/4 cup mashed potatoes (i prefer sweet potatoes)
1/4 cup Red Kidney Beans – (cooked and Drained)
1/4 cup Lentils or mung beans– (cooked and drained)
1 1/2 tablespoons Olive Oil
1 1/2 tablespoons Xagave syrup or mollasses
3/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Almond meal
1/2
cup Brown rice flour
1/4 cup Oat bran
1/2 cup Millet Flour
2 tablespoons vital wheat gluten
2
tablespoons wheat germ
1 1/2 teaspoons Yeast
Layer
the ingredients in the order listed in your breadmaker. Bake on the basic cycle
setting. But I like setting this in dough cycle(let it do the kneading for me)
then transfer it to 2 loaf pans. Brush it with olive oil, then sprinkle
generously with oatmeal. Let it rise inside the oven until it doubles in bulk,
around 2 hours.
Bake for 20 minutes at 350degF. Let cool
for a bit, then slice!
I didn't get to take too many pictures because I'm lazy. sorry! this one doesn't have any beans on it! lol!
