Low- Carb Bread

Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup water (warm - 125 degrees)
• 1/2 cup heavy cream (room temp)
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 2 eggs (slightly beaten, room temp)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups gluten flour
• 1 cup oat flour
• 1 cup protein powder
• 2 tablespoons yeast (or 2 packages yeast, redstar seems to be best for breadmachines)
• 2 teaspoons sugar (the real stuff for the yeast to eat)

Recipe

• 1 spray 3 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 bread pans.
• 2 put water, cream and oil in bread machine. add eggs, salt, then flours, protein powder and.
• 3 sugar. make well in the center, and add yeast.
• 4 start bread machine on regular cycle - watch dough during the knead process and check for consistency - should be a "ball" -add water or flour depending on if it's too wet or too dry.
• 5 add slowly!
• 6 let machine do 1st rise and punchdown then remove.
• 7 seperate into 3 bread pans. let rise again until 1/2" - 1" over top of bread pan. bake at 350 for 25 - 30 minutes.
• 8 1168 calories (kcal); 81g total fat; (62% calories from fat); 31g protein; 80g carbohydrate; 537mg cholesterol; 1232mg sodium.
• 9 notes : jury is still out on the carb count for high gluten flour - it seems to range from 64 per cup to 85 per cup -- so it is not included in the above total -- but even at the highest of 85 per cup, 60 slices (20 per loaf), the total is only 4 carbs per slice!
• 10 counts used for this recipe: 54 per cup of oat flour, 8 per cup of protein powder.
• 11 this has a little heavier texture than traditional bread, more like a bagel -but the taste is incredible! no nasty soy aftertaste. i used vanilla protein powder which gave it a bit of a sweet taste.