Dr. Dooa’s GF/CF bread (Cairo/ Egypt)
Ingredients:
1.5 cups of flour (bread flour-GF) (12 OZ)
0.5 cup corn starch(4OZ)
1.5 table spoon Xanthun gum
1.5 table spoon coffee mate powder (GFCF)
Dried yeast (small packet of 12gms) + a table spoon sugar + 0.5 cup of warm water
0.5 of an egg (or you may also not include this)
1 cup of warm water.
Pinch of salt
Steps:
1- Mix sugar and yeast in a cup and add the 0.5 cup of the warm water.
2- Cover it and leave it to rise for 10 min (you may place this is a warm oven around
37oC.
3- Mix the flour, corn starch, xanthun gum, coffee mate and little salt all together
( no water yet)
4- When the yeast is ready, add another 0.5 cup of warm water (which makes in total
a full cup of water with the yeast).
5- You may add half an egg to the water ( if you want- this may make the bread a
little hard)
6- Add gradually to the flour mix.
7- Mix with your hands to get a bread dough. Knead the dough for a while (that will
make the dough more elastic afterwards).
8- Now leave the dough COVERED in a warm place (eg. in warmed oven below 50 degree
C).
9- Leave it for 2 hrs or more (you can leave it over night if you want).
10- Heat the oven to 250 degree C.
11- Put cup cakes on the tray and put balls of the dough in each as seen below. You
can use some oil in the cups before putting the dough. Leave it 10 more minutes before
baking.
12- Put the tray in the very hot oven for 10 to 12 minutes until the surface get
some color
13- You can alternatively pat one of these pieces flat. About 0.5 cm thick or less.
This will make like a pita bread (see below) rather than a raised ball of bread.
This can be baked in the hot oven for just 3 minutes or so. Do not forget to let
the dough stand for about 5 min before baking.
Bon Appetit JJ
Dr. Doaa (Cairo)
