Focaccia Flax Bread ~ paleo, yeast free with vegan option

If you're on a gluten-free diet or grain-free, low carb, or paleo diet and you miss bread, this Flax Bread Recipe is just what you have been waiting for.

It's grain free and even vegan (if need be) to boot and is one of our family's favorites. It's a very forgiving recipe that you won't even need my gluten-free baking tips for :).

And if you haven't heard about how healthy flax is, then read on.

This focaccia flax bread recipe is well, just great.

We've been eating flax seeds for years, but mainly in shakes and as a substitute for eggs in baking, but this bread is a great way to get the health benefits of flax into your family.

The Benefits of Flaxseed

Flax is high in:

• omega-3 essential fatty acids
• fiber
• antioxidants

Sounds like a good idea to get you and your family to eat more of this wonderfood, right?  Well here's how!

I've shared this Focaccia Flax Bread with a number of folks, and everyone has asked for the recipe. It has a nice deep flavor and pleasing texture. And it's a great bread alternative for those on gluten free diets.

Gluten free folks need to take great care not to load up on refined starches for those do damage to their already compromised digestive systems. Alternatives like this are pleasing both to the palate and also healthy for your body.

If you're not that familiar with flax seeds, there are two varieties–light and dark. The bread in the main photos here above was made with light seeds.

The light ones will (of course :-)) produce a lighter-colored bread, but from what I understand, there is no difference in nutritional value and we haven't found there to be a taste difference either.

The light (golden) flax seeds are more expensive, so save your money (unless, of course, you really need the lighter variety for some reason) and buy the dark variety. The resulting bread will look like what you can see pictured below.

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Serving Ideas:  Top / Serve This Great Gluten-Free Flax Bread with:

• Homemade Nut or Seed Butter (and jam if you like)
• Savory Hummus
• Homemade Egg-Free Mayo with cheese, veggies, shredded carrots, etc. Makes a great sandwich! (that's what is on the sandwich in the main photo)
• Fried Egg and Cheese
• This Easy Marinara Sauce. Great for dipping!
• Nothing! Just eat it plain! I can barely keep my son out of it so this is how it mainly gets eaten in our home.

What You Will Need for this Flax Bread Recipe

• Flax Seed Meal
• Baking Powder
• Salt (I recommend Real Salt)
• Healthy Sweetener (optional: sucanat or coconut sugar would be goo options. I use xylitol or stevia extract for a candida-friendly option)
• Eggs (or equivalent alternative like Ener-G Egg Replacer. See my Homemade Powdered Egg Replacer. For a low-carb option use a flax, chia, or gelatin egg)
• Water (use filtered water please)
• Coconut Oil (other healthy fats may be substituted)

Notes on stevia:

You can use other sweeteners for this recipe, but in case you happen to use stevia, here are some tips for its use.

Stevia is super sweet so you only need a tad.  I bought these (the links are affiliate links) scoops and use the 2nd smallest as “1 scoop”, or 1/32 of a tsp.

Yes, it’s THAT sweet!

Hope you love it as much as we do.

One more thing. If you need more information on stevia–like what it is and how to measure it, read this post here.

Recipe Notes

• If you would like to make your own baking powder, see my Homemade Baking Powder.
• Although xylitol is a good candida-friendly option for sweetener, stevia extract is as well. If using stevia, use 1 scoop. If candida is not an issue, organic sucanat or organic coconut sugar would be good options.
• You can use an egg substitute like Ener-G Egg Replacer for the eggs. See my Homemade Powdered Egg Replacer for a make-your-own option. For a low-carb option use a flax, chia, or gelatin egg.
• 4 cups of flax seeds yield about 6 – 6 1/2 cups flax meal.   If you have extra after grinding, just store it in the fridge or freezer for adding to smoothies, etc.
• Eggs – If you are not a fan of eggs, using all five might be a bit much for you.  You can try using 3-4 and substituting an egg alternative for the remaining eggs.

Notes

Pan sizes and conversion info:

One recipe will fit well in a 10×15 pan. To use 2 9×13 pans, make 1 1/2 recipes.
3 recipes covers 2 large circular baking stones.

If you really want to bake in bulk, make 4 1/2 recipes for  2 large size pizza stones and 2 9×13 pans (this is what I always do since we eat it up so quickly!)

Here are the measurements for 4 1/2 batches:

9 cups flax meal
4 1/2 T baking powder
22 eggs, or equivalent
4 1/2 tsp salt
4 1/2 T sweetener (using the lower measurement)
2 1/4 cups water
1 1/2 cups coconut oil

The baking stones really make clean up easy and there is no greasing necessary. No need to grease and clean up is a snap!

Note also that this post is one of the first ones that I put on my blog. I realize now that this recipe is on numerous sites around the internet–some with variations and some without.  I do not recall where this Flax Bread Recipe came from, but obviously there are a lot of people who love it as much as we do!

How about you?
What would you serve this bread with?

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