Description
This versatile loaf is a Fuel Pull for Trim Healthy Mamas and can be used in any fuel setting. As long as you don’t eat more than 1/3 of the loaf at a time (which would be overkill), you’ll stay in FP mode. Low carb, low fat
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Briana’s Baking Mix
- ½ cup oat fiber
- 1 T Knox gelatin
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. THM Super Sweet Blend
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 6 T very hot tap water
- 1 ½ tsp. instant yeast
- 1 tsp. honey
- 2 cups egg whites (carton kind works great)
- ½ tsp. cream of tartar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a bread pan (9″x5″) by cutting a piece of parchment paper wide enough to cover both long sides and the bottom of the pan (see picture above). You can ignore the two short ends for now. Set aside.
- Whisk the dry ingredients together (except for the cream of tartar – save that to mix with the egg whites).
- Whisk the yeast and honey into the water and set it aside for 5 minutes. It should foam and rise to show that the yeast is active.
- While the yeast is proofing, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar together on high with a hand mixer for one minute. The egg whites should get nice and foamy.
- Immediately add the dry ingredients and yeast mixture to the egg whites and fold them in on the lowest setting of your mixer just until mixed smoothly. Mix as little as possible!
- Immediately pour the bread dough into the parchment-lined bread pan, smooth the top, and place in the oven. Do not grease the pan (fat causes egg whites to deflate).
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 43-45 minutes. Take the pan out of the oven, slice along the two short ends to cut the bread away from the pan (it will probably stick slightly to the ungreased pan, but that’s OK), and lift the loaf out of the pan using the parchment paper. Let cool on a wire rack for several hours or overnight, then slice. Store in the refrigerator (or freezer for longer-term storage).
- I usually get about 14 slices out of a loaf. As long as you don’t eat more than 1/3rd of the loaf in one sitting (which would be totally overkill), you’ll stay in FP mode.
Notes
If you have THM Baking Blend on hand and would rather use that than the 3/4 cup of my baking mix called for in this recipe, try 1 cup of THM Baking Blend. You will still need to add the 1/2 cup of oat fiber (this keeps the bread lighter in texture and calories).
You can use whatever brand of gelatin you have on hand in the same amount in this recipe.
I recommend using instant yeast in this recipe because it is quick-acting and doesn’t need a rising time.
I have not tried microwaving this bread, and I honestly have no desire to do so. In my experience, baked goods often have a much nicer texture than microwaved ones.