While this bread might not photograph so well, it is delicious! This is one nutrient packed bread! Cranberries to provide you with Vitamin C during cold and flu season, oats & almonds for protein and fiber, dairy & gluten free to fight inflammation. 
There’s no need to buy expensive gluten free flour. Make your own! We take oats and grind them in our Vitamix (or any powerful blender) as well as almonds to make oat flour and almond meal. When purchased in bulk, these are much less expensive & less processed means of baking (no fillers). This bread is easy to throw together and is warm and hearty. We enjoyed it with some stew on this frigid day-brrrr.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cup of oat flour (ground oats in a blender-usually equal amount of whole rolled to ground) *be sure to use certified gluten free if needed
- 1/2 cup of almond meal (ground alomonds)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup chopped cranberries (we used the Vitamix for this too to make it easy)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
Instructions:
- Make flours and mix with dry ingredients
- Chop cranberries and add into dry ingredients along with rest of wet ingredients and mix together
- Grease bread pan with cooking spray and pour mixture into pan
- Bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes, until knife inserted comes out clean
- Serve for breakfast or as a side with stew (click here for chicken stew) or soup.
*Even great as a dessert topped with some maple pudding
Nutritional Benefits:
- Cranberries: high in Vitamin C; anti-oxidant that boosts immunity and fights infection
- Oats: high in fiber, anti-inflammatory, decreases cholesterol, improves heart health
- Molasses: good source of potassium, important for maintaining healthy blood pressure levels, proper kidney function (so important for diabetic patients and heart disease)
- Almonds: high in monounsaturated fats, important for heart health, blood circulation, anti-inflammatory, help regulate blood sugar levels, packed with protein to help with healing and building muscles and tissues
- Fiber: helps regulate blood sugar levels, improves circulation, anti-inflammatory
- 1½ cup of oat flour (ground oats in a blender-usually equal amount of whole rolled to ground) *be sure to use certified gluten free if needed
- ½ cup of almond meal (ground alomonds)
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup chopped cranberries (we used the Vitamix for this too to make it easy)
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- ⅓ cup molasses
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- Make flours and mix with dry ingredients
- Chop cranberries and add into dry ingredients along with rest of wet ingredients and mix together
- Grease bread pan with cooking spray and pour mixture into pan
- Bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes, until knife inserted comes out clean
Have you ever tried making this as a vegan version? Do you think it would work with flax seed eggs vs. real eggs? If you think there’s a good possibility, I’ll give it a go. Always on the lookout for good gluten-free, vegan bread recipes!!
Thanks,
Bethany
Absolutely! So funny, recently people have commented on my older posts, before I went vegan and took better pics! I will have to redo this one! Thanks for the reminder! To make vegan, swap the eggs for 2 tbsp flaxseed and 6 tbsp water. Mix and let sit for 5-10 minutes until thickened. I have other recipes on site too! Heads up-this post may disappear once I update it, but a new one will be on the blog-promise!