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Overnight Sourdough Rice & Teff Baguettes

Laura T.'s picture
Laura T.

Overnight Sourdough Rice & Teff Baguettes

I made baguettes with no wheat and it was good. Like, really good. Better than I could ever have hoped. I know that some of the processes I follow aren't ideal when it comes to traditional bread-making, but without gluten it seems that everything changes.

Despite being gluten-free, these have a great holey crumb and are lighter even than the ciabattas I used to make with wheat. The flavour was lovely and tangy from the sourness.

Recipe

150g 100% hydration white rice & red teff starter
175g white rice flour
175g potato starch
25g psyllium husks
420g water
12g salt

  • Mix together the water and psyllium, stirring until a gel forms.
  • Incorperate all of the ingrediens, except the salt, with the gel.
  • Form a ball and leave to rise in a covered bowl at room temp for aprox. 2 hours.
  • Add salt and knead to thoughroughly incorperate.
  • Recover and transfer to the fridge - leave for around 12 hours.
  • Remove from the fridge and leave to come up to room temp for about 2 hours.
  • Divide and shape into 4 baguettes.
  • Cover and prove at room temp for a further hour.
  • Brush with water, dust with rice flour and slash.
  • Bake at 235c for 30+ mins with steam for the first 10 mins (until nicely browned)

Comments

Gluten-free Gourmand's picture
Gluten-free Gourmand

Nicely done!  Thanks for the recipe - It sounds great!

Gina

Isand66's picture
Isand66

That looks amazing for gluten free bread.  Nice baking.

Ian

Laura T.'s picture
Laura T.

I decided I'm not going to stop baking nice loaves despite going gf. Guess I'm quite determined haha.

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grind

Way to go.  That GF bread is a tough nut to crack but I see that its shell has been busted wide open by you efforts.

Laura T.'s picture
Laura T.

Haha I wouldn't go that far but thanks :)

Alpana's picture
Alpana

While many of us struggle with wheat flour baguettes for ages, you have GF winner on your hands. Hope you make and enjoy many such breads.

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theresasc

Your bread is just beautiful looking.  What a great job.

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Juergen Krauss

Really appetizing.

Do you gave a photo of your starter?

Laura T.'s picture
Laura T.

I didn't take one because I guess the jar looks sort of messy? I can try to take one today.

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Juergen Krauss

Laura, I am currently looking into what ferments well and also creates / retains gas. It willhelp me hugely to see a properly working GF Sourdough.

I am currently fermenting 5 different flours on their own (plus rye, for control purposes), inoculated with the buckwheat-millet starter I used previously.

Thanks a lot,

Juergen

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Laura T.

The one that is working for me is

     2         :    1       :   3
white rice : red teff : water

Laura T.'s picture
Laura T.

It's not been very active today, think it's the cold weather.

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evonlim

great GF baguettes, looks really good. 

thanks for sharing

evon

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Laura T.

Thanks Evon. WIsh there was a way of people tasting them through the computer haha.

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evonlim

i have black rice flour in hand :) i think i will test it out with your formula! 

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Laura T.

I've never seen black rice flour before so not sure how it'll come out but would love to know :) Is it a more coarse/heavy flour than white?