Do you have a good breakfast but by the time you get hungry? It’s time to review your breakfast and find foods that nourish you but also satisfy you. It seems like a lie but feeling of hunger can make you lose focus on your tasks and that’s really frustrating. So take note of this recipe for chickpea and flax bread that will help you spend the morning in other conditions.
Its main ingredient is chickpea flour which, although at first it may seem shocking if you are not familiar with it, it is a basic food in the diet of many people because it does not contain gluten (it is a legume and not a cereal). It also contains a good amount of vegetable proteinfiber, minerals such as calcium, zinc, iron, magnesium or manganese, and group B vitamins, especially folic acid, and antioxidants.
Chickpea and flax flour bread
Apart from preparing bread as we will see now, you can use chickpea flour in various ways, for example in pancakes, batters, pizza or muffins, and also to replace the egg in potato omelette and similar. It is increasingly common to find it in food stores and supermarkets so it will not be difficult for you to find it.
It is possible that while you are cooking you become curious and try the raw chickpea flour: it is better not to do it as it is very bitter. On the contrary, once cooked It’s kind of sweet and earthy..
On the other hand, this bread has yeast So, just in case you couldn’t take it for whatever reason, here we leave you several alternatives for unleavened bread such as lentil bread, buckwheat and quinoa bread, or whole wheat flour bread.
We loved this recipe from @yanita_vlog that, as she herself explains, you can freeze without problems. As soon as you see that there will be leftovers, cut it into slices and freeze it without problem and so you use it as you need it.
Ingredients
- 3 free-range eggs
- 1 and ½ cup chickpea flour
- 3 tablespoons ground flaxseed
- 1 teaspoon baking powder or baking powder
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 150 milliliters of water or vegetable drink
- Seed mix
- Salt
Preparation mode
It is a very easy recipe to prepare in which the most notable thing is whip the egg whites until stiff and mix them carefully so that they do not go down. In addition to the seed mix used to decorate and reduce the intensity of the chickpea, you can add dried tomatoes or olives.
Here you have the step by step to make chickpea and flax bread that you can accompany with whatever you like most.
- Crack the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Lightly grease a rectangular mold.
- In a bowl, place the chickpea flour, flaxseed, baking powder, salt, olive oil, water or vegetable drink. Add the 3 yolks and mix everything very well with a spatula.
- Whip the 3 egg whites until stiff and add them to the previous preparation. Mix gently with enveloping movements so that they do not fall.
- Preheat the oven to 190ºC. Pour the dough into the mold, add a mix of seeds and bake for 35 minutes. And enjoy breakfast!
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