Gluten Free Bread Machine Recipe – Oat Bread

By tinathorn

Ingredients

• 1 1/8 cup water
• 1/4 cup light extra virgin olive oil (or oil of choice)
• 1 teaspoon gluten-free apple cider vinegar (I used Heinz)
• 4 extra-large egg whites, at room temperature
• 2 Tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1 1/4 cups + 3 1/2 Tablespoons gluten-free oat flour (4 oz.)
• 1 cup + 1 1/2 Tablespoon potato starch (5.2 oz.)
• 1/2 cup + 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon tapioca flour/starch (3.0 oz.)
• 1/4 cup + 2 teaspoons flax seed meal (0.8 oz.)
• 1 Tablespoon + 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum (use corn-free brand or guar gum, if needed)
• 1/4 cup non-fat instant dry milk (or use non-fat milk instead of water)
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant dry yeast
• 2 teaspoons gluten-free oats for top (optional)

Preparation

Step 1

Add the ingredients above in the order listed to the bowl of your bread machine (while removed from the machine).
For programmable bread machines without a gluten free setting, set the machine to the following settings: Crust: Medium; Keep Warm: 0; 1st Knead: 5; 2nd Knead: 10; 1st Rise: 40; Punch: 10; 2nd Rise: 10; Shape: 5; 3rd Rise: 40 (35 is what I'll try next); Bake: 65 minutes (or longer).
After about 1 minute mid the first kneading, help remove the flour from the sides of the machine by scraping them with a rubber spatula. This take about 15 seconds. Let the machine do the rest. Total time: 2 hours, 50 minutes.
Photo of Mid Second Knead:

If desired, add oatmeal to the top of the bread; with wet fingers, pat the oatmeal into the dough, and allow to complete the rising.
Once baked, remove the kneading peddle, if still in bottom of bread, transfer to cooling rack to cool completely, about 2 hours.

Tips

Mixing the dry ingredients together first is most successful. This includes the flour, starches, flax seed meal, gum

Rice milk may due fine as a milk substitute, but I haven't tried it yet myself. I will soon, and update the recipe above if it work well.

When adding oil, add it to the spindle/kneader peddle to prevent sticking.

If upon cooling, the bread's sides and/or bottom begins to concave, add it back to the bread bowl and bake longer. This is an indication of too much liquid or not baked long enough.