Millet Bread Recipe

[Mayflowers]

Anyone have a good millet bread recipe? I searched and nothing came up. I'm interested in mostly millet compared to other flours as I have reaction to rice too. Thanks!

[RiceGuy]

Though I've not tried, my impression is that the end results wouldn't be very palatable without some other flours, especially tapioca. If you can use garbanzo, fava, or soy flour, one or more of these might help too. If you find you react to many grains in general, one of those or some other bean flours may not be a problem. There's also potato flour, and tree nut flours such as almond, cashew, pistachio etc.

Have you tried buckwheat? Since it isn't technically a grain, perhaps it would suit you better. Other lesser known flours are green pea and mesquite, which may or may not be suitable to a millet bread recipe.

Also don't overlook cross-contamination as the cause of a reaction rather than the flour itself. Some folks on this board find they react to Bob's Red Mill products.

A quick Google search turns up a number of recipes for millet breads, including this one: Open Original Shared Link

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Annalise Roberts has a recipe for something she calls "submarine sandwich bread." It's not on her website (www.foodphilosopher.com), but you can find it in her cookbook, gluten-free Baking Classics, which is the best cookbook I ever bought!

I believe she uses 2 parts millet flour, 1 part sorghum, 1 part potato starch ,1 part cornstarch, and 1 part tapioca starch for all her breads--no rice flour. Anyway, the sub bread is just incredible, like a really, really good artisanal bakery loaf.

[Mayflowers]

Rice Guy, Thanks. (as I sit here eating my millet breakfast cereal) No I didn't do a google search, duh, but I checked here and went to allrecipes.com. I don't usually think to search recipes...weird. I search everything else.... (acutally I figured if someone hadn't posted it here there wasn't one out there. That's what I get for assuming)

I have a reaction to Bob's Red Mill gluten-free bread mix that's made with mostly bean flours. My arthritis flares up after I eat it. Funny you should mention some people have reactions to his products here. His website says that the gluten-free products are all made separately in a special facility with strict gluten free standards and no gluten grains are brought into this facility. Sounds good. That's why I believe it's the bean flours, fava to be exact and the rice flour. I get arthritis pain if I eat rice every day too. I was thinking of buckwheat flour. I might try that too. Thanks.

Thanks FiddleFaddle, I'll get that book. Sounds wonderful!