Gluten Free Challah Wanted! Please Share
Hi Everyone,
I've had good luck in the past finding rare recipes, and am still making your Pflaumenkuchen, MiniOven.
I've been hosting a Shabbat dinner 1x a month for a few months now and have gotten good results with my gluten challah. Jake's Perfect Challah from the cookbook Jew-ish is amazing, fluffy, flavourful, and easy to make.
I switched to GF bread 3 years ago due to a positive genetic test for non celiac gluten allergy. It gives me arthritis, sadly. No gluten = arthritis free, which I find super motivating. I have many decades of bread and pastry baking experience, but GF baking is so different.
I have tried 3 different recipes for GF challah and they were all awful. Flat, dusty, gritty, weird texture. The rise was poor in all. I'm willing to try any ingredients or technique.
I would like fluffy, high rising, flavourful, not too sweet bread with a nice crumb. I'm a big fan of many yolks, and dairy is not an issue.
If you have something to share, please don't be shy! Thanks, Celeste
Which act as a binder so that's a good start. While I don't know of a good gluten free challah recipe I do know that a good binder (the best in my opinion) is psyllium husk powder. If you're baking gluten free this would be a good ingredient to have. Make sure it's the powder. Finer the better.
Another binder is xanthan gum. Works very well too. This gluten free challah recipe looks very good.
Thanks for your reply Abe, and I agree about the psyllium husk as a binder. I've always been a fan of the eggy rich version of this bread.
The link you suggested is the exact recipe I used! Flavour was pretty good but the rise was very weak. I'm going to experiment with 2 modifications, adding a small tsp. of baking powder in addition to yeast, and trying a structured pan like a loaf pan to channel the rise upwards.
My next GF challah will come from this book: