Low Carb Flax and Pecan Bread

 

Yield: 1 loaf

         

Ingredients:

                                                                                 Sugar       Fiber

            1/2 cup             water                                     0g            0g

            1                      egg                                         0g            0g

            1 tablespoon     butter                                    0g            0g

            2 tablespoons    Splenda                               6g            0g

            1/3 cup             ground flax seeds                  0g           10.6g

            1/4 cup             ground pecan nut meal         1.32         2.68g

            3/4 cup             gluten flour                             0g            20g

            1 teaspoon        dried yeast                            0g            0g

            1/4 teaspoon     salt                                        0g            0g

            2 teaspoon        sugar for the yeast                0g           0g

                                                              Total            15.32g     33.28g

If you cut the bread into 11 slices then per slice        1.39g       3.03g

            Mix the sugar, salt and yeast in the water that has been warmed between 104 and 110 deg. Stir the yeast mixture gently and let the yeast work on the sugar water for 10 minutes. The yeast will consume part of the sugar reducing the overall carbs count even lower. Do not leave the sugar out of this recipe, because the carbohydrate count is so low the yeast will not be able to grow and multiply.

  

Combine ingredients into the bread machine and select dough. I use my bread machine to mix, knead and do the first rise. You could let the machine do the complete job.

      My wife picked up this bread machine at a local thrift store for only $10. We have been using this machine for a few years now. If you find one in a thrift store that you like, plug it in before you buy it. If the display panel works, test the unit by selecting dough. If the dough paddle starts to work the machine should be in good working order. Most of these bread machines are not used much by the first owner.

          Remove bread dough when the machine is done. Place dough on floured workbench. I use regular wheat flour for the workbench. Work the dough and form a log just a little longer than your bread pan. 

         

      Place the dough log in the bread pan and tuck the ends under forming a nice smooth top. Let the bread rise in a warm place until double. Place the bread dough into a cool oven and then turn on the oven. As the oven comes to temperature the bread will continue to rise.  Bake the bread in a 350 deg oven for about 40 to 50 minutes. Check the bread after 35 min. Ovens very. When done, turn the hot loaf out onto a cooling rack. Enjoy when cool but still hot enough to melt butter. Use a serrated knife to cut the bread.

           

Note: This bread is very good and it comes close to real multi-grain bread. The amount of gluten in the gluten flour can very from one brand to another. I use NOW Gluten that has a gluten level of 70%. If the gluten flour that you use is higher or lower you may need to adjust the level of gluten flour in your batch of bread.