Bread: Bob's Red Mill Hearty Whole Grain Bread Mix

Bob's Red Mill is to me like a beacon of light in an otherwise dark supermarket. Bob's offers a wide variety of gluten free cookies, brownies, bread mixes, and flours. The Hearty Whole Grain Bread mix is a great product to have on hand in the cupboard- particularly on a cold weekend when you are inclined to drag out the bread machine.

Generally in our gluten free household we bake up a loaf of bread, freeze it and consume it over a few weeks. Since it does take some effort, we don't make it all that regularly- though we certainly should- especially if it's Bob's Red Mill.

I really love this bread- but mainly it has to do with what's in it. This is no shrinking violet; it has major heft to it, weighs a ton and is hearty beyond all recognition. But the best thing is that it can be sliced, frozen, toasted and consumed- all without falling into a crumbled mass like most gluten free breads. Bob's Hearty is one of the few breads that can actually survive being made into a sandwich- a rare feat in the world of mainly tapioca and starch-based gluten free flours. I can't even count how many times I've made Rob a sandwich- only to have it fall apart each time he picked it up to the point where the chicken salad sandwich has to be consumed with knife and fork.

Yes so Bob's is a bit on the heavy side- kind of like a dark brown molasses bread, but as I said, it's worth every slice- kind of like gluten free gold!

Ingredients:
Whole grain buckwheat, garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, cornstarch, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, whole grain sorghum flour, tapioca flour, turbinado sugar, cocoa powder, evaporated cane juice sugar, fava bean flour, dried molasses (molasses, maltodextrin, silicon dioxide), xanthan gum, caraway seeds, active dry yeast, sea salt, whole grain teff, potato flour, onion powder, guar gum, soy lecithin

Nutrition Facts:
Serving size: 1/16 of pkg (35g)
Servings per container: 16
Calories:
Mix: 130
Baked: 190
Calories from fat:
Mix: 30
Baked: 70
Total fat: 3.5g
Sat. fat: 0g
Trans fat; 0g
Cholesterol: 0mg
Sodium: 170mg
Total Carb.: 23g
Dietary fiber: 4g
Sugars: 3g
Protein: 4g

What You Need:
1 3/4 cups Water
1/4 cup oil
2 eggs
1 tsp. cider vinegar

This mix can be made by hand or by a bread machine.

"Bob's Red Mill products labeled Gluten Free are batch tested in our quality control laboratory. We use ELISA Gluten Assay test to determine if a product is gluten free."