Sweet with a kick of ginger, this Ginger Pear Buckwheat Bread makes a great, breakfast, snack, or dessert. Completely plant-based, gluten-free, oil-free, sugar-free, and fruit-sweetened.
Bread. It's everyone's worst enemy, right? So many people nowadays are gluten-free or paleo or low-carb or calorie-counting. Bread never makes the list of 'approved' foods. So sad!
I love bread! There's something so satisfying about sinking your teeth into a soft, spongy piece of bread.
Now let me just say that I'm not advising that you eat any bread you want. Honestly, most people have it right: bread can be really unhealthy. Often store-bought bread has white flour and other refined grains, oil, eggs, sugar, preservatives... I could go on.
That's why I make bread at home! I get to control exactly what I put in it. I know that I'm fully comfortable eating each ingredient that goes into my bread, so of course I'll be fully comfortable eating the loaf itself.
Plus, I get to make fun flavors, like this fall-themed Ginger Pear Buckwheat Bread! You don't find that stuff at the store.
If you were looking for a traditional white or wheat bread recipe, I'm sorry but I don't have that for you today. Though it's definitely on my list of recipes to develop. BUT what you do have is a sweet pear loaf with a kick of ginger and an extra helping of fall. (If you want other bread recipes, check out my Banana Bread and Strawberry Banana Buckwheat Bread recipes!)
Oh, and did I mention it's healthy?
Start by preparing the pear. You'll need a pound of chopped pear for this recipe. It sounds like a lot but it's really only 3-4 pears.
Finely chop or grate half of the pear. Set it aside to use later.
Then add the remaining pear, the date syrup, and the almond butter to a food processor. Process until the pear is pureed and the mixture is smooth.
Then add in the baking powder, ACV, and spices. Pulse the processor to incorporate.
Stir in the buckwheat flour, oat flour, and ground flax. The batter should be pretty thick at this point.
Finally, stir the grated pear set aside from earlier. The batter will still be thick, but the addition of the grated pear should give it a bit more moisture. This is good, because we want the bread to be moist, but not too moist. If there's a high wet to dry ratio, the bread won't bake through all the way.
Once you have the pears mixed into the batter, pour the batter into a parchment-lined loaf pan.
Bake the loaf for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out completely clean. Remove the bread from the oven and let it cool for at least 15 minutes. Slice and enjoy!
God, thank you for bread. Let us feed ourselves with foods that we desire to eat. Help us to be slow to judge. Amen.
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Sweet with a kick of ginger, this Ginger Pear Buckwheat Bread makes a great, breakfast, snack, or dessert. Completely plant-based, gluten-free, oil-free, sugar-free, and fruit-sweetened.
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