Recipe Category Archives: Gluten-Free Recipes

Date Nut Bread Recipe. Muffin Variation

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments

date nut bread

This date nut bread sounds too good-for-you to be good-good, doesn’t it?

But wait till you taste it: Plump and moist and chock-full of good-for-you goodies. Plus, this is a quick bread, meaning, no yeast and no kneading. It rises with baking powder and baking soda, so you might decide to make it at the drop of a hat.

I make my date nut bread with spelt flour too, so it’s a win-win.

In my latest cookbook, all sugars and sweeteners are “under investigation” in each of the book’s recipes. So, whenever possible (which turns out to be quite often, I am pleased to report!) I use natural sweeteners. But here is the beautiful thing:

This date nut bread gets naturally sweetened with dried fruit and nothing else!

If you love dried figs or apricots, as I do, you can substitute them for, or use them in combination with, the dates.

Great for breakfast too, as is or toasted, alone or topped with a little nut butter or butter.

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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Cocoa Coffee Levana Nourishments

zucchini chocolate chip bread

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread!

You must try mine. I love the idea of quickbreads, whipped up at the drop of a hat, ready for guests and us on short notice, no kneading and no rising time.

The added bonus is that quickbreads are very moderately sweet.

This little trivia about them places them in the category of real foods rather than desserts, even though they taste delicious enough to be dessert.

The flavor combination in this Zucchini Chocolate Chip bread is unbeatable!

And you will eat your veggies, I guarantee it! It helps a lot that zucchini is naturally bland, in a good way, and is equally at home in sweet and savory dishes.

No problem making muffins with this batter:

Your children will love you for the perfect Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins snack!

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No Yeast Gluten-Free Rolls Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

gluten-free rolls

Gluten-free rolls is something I am constantly tinkering with.

I’m terribly sorry to say:

Commercial gluten-free bread and gluten free rolls are really subpar, on every level:

Let’s see: The ingredient selection (First ingredient: potato starch, corn starch?!?), the unjustified high price (again: for potato starch, corn starch?), the poor flavor and texture, and above all the way it ignores all health guidelines. Poor gluten-free shoppers pay through the nose for something they have equated with healthy because it boasts a gluten-free certification, and for what? Gluten free junk!

Although making yeasted bread is nowhere near as hard or time consuming as some people imagine, the daunting idea of multi step bread baking, and all things yeasted for that matter, dies hard for many of us. Making yeasted gluten-free rolls follows pretty much the same rules as regular bread baking, albeit with different ingredient ratios. So I decided to explore with no yeast Gluten-free rolls. Much like muffins, except they are savory enough to be bread.

These gluten-free rolls have the advantage of consisting in a single-step process.

And because they are yeast-free, they are much less perishable than yeasted gluten-free bread rolls. I store them in the freezer, and whip out just the number I need.

Here is a large batch recipe of my no yeast gluten-free rolls I was very happy with. No trace of the offending worthless starch; only the very best and healthiest ingredients, and super nutritious. My gluten-allergic grandson loved them, and he is a certified bread aficionado, so his verdict rules.

 

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Balsamic-Roasted Chicken Breasts Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

chicken breasts

Your chicken breasts will never come out dry ever again.

I guarantee it!

These chicken breasts are succulent and fork-tender. The marinating step is important here, so please do not skip it, the reward is a fabulous dish. Even if you marinate it briefly, for one hour, it will work great.

I like to make the full size recipe

Even if we are only two people. It freezes so nicely. Plus the leftovers are delicious cold, sliced in a salad or in a sandwich. You will be happy to find a couple tucked carefully in ziplock bags in the freezer!

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Mock Crab Cakes Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

mock crab cakes

My mock crab cakes are a staple in a my house.

Crab cakes and other seafood goodies were always verboten in the world of kosher dining. They were also verboten to all diners who frown at eating seafood.
But recently some inspired professional foodie recreated the texture and flavor of crab with a plain-vanilla-type fish called pollock: Ta-Da! Mock crab was born! And Mock Crab Cakes soon followed!

Mock crab is processed minimally, so I have no trouble using it, in these mock crab cakes and several other fish treats.

I don’t think you will find more than a handful of fried dishes in my whole cooking repertoire. Only those very few dishes whose flavor or texture would be compromised by cooking them any other way, and these mock crab cakes are just one of them.

Guess what? mock crab cakes freeze beautifully!

I risked freezing a couple of these, just to see what happens, and they were perfect! YAY! I reheated them in a 300*F oven, uncovered. But I also tried them cold, diced in salads, or in sandwiches, with a good smear of your favorite sauce, and your favorite toppings. Fantastic!

 

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