Happy Friday friends!
Today we have a fun and different recipe for you to enjoy. We were surprised by this recipe to be honest. At first we were a little nervous that it would not come out.
But a few hours in the dehydrator and after a few bites we were impressed. It was different. Good different.
It really tasted like a soft piece of bread! And it is raw! And gluten-free! we never attempted a more thick, softer bread till now.
Remember when we showed you the amazing products from Navitas Naturals and we weren’t sure what we wanted to do with the Maqui powder they had sent.
Here is a quick overview of Maqui powder – it contains antioxidants, a good source of Vitamin C, and a natural anti-inflammatory food! This berry is full of health benefits, check out more benefits of the Maqui powder.
After some discussing of what to do. We knew we wanted something DIFFERENT!
And PURPLE BREAD sounded like a great possibility. But what would we make it out of?
Bread before being dehydrated
We made a large batch of pumpkin seed milk and had all this leftover pulp. And then the light bulb went off – use the pulp to make our raw gluten-free bread! Another great thing about this recipe is that has a very short ingredient list!
Purelytwins – Raw Purple Bread (raw, gluten-free, vegan, soy-free, low sugar)
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of pumpkin seed milk pulp, our pulp was wet not dried pulp (you can use any nut or seed pulp for it)
- 2 tbsp lucuma (may use maca, coconut flour, or any nut or seed flour)
- 2 tsp maqui powder (this is what makes it purple)
- 2 tsp xylitol (this bread was not real sweet, so increase if you want a sweet bread)
- 3 tbsp chia seeds
Directions:
If you do not have any seed or nut milk made up than you will need to make some up for this recipe. As this recipe does best with fresh pulp. And who doesn’t love fresh homemade nut or seed milks?
Next grab a large bowl and place all the ingredients into the bowl and stir. Pretty simple right?
Next take your bread batter and pour onto a dehydrator sheet and shape into any form of bread you would like.
Place sheet into your dehydrator and let it dehydrate for overnight (about 6-8 hours). Check to see if it as dry you want, if not than let it dehydrate a little longer.
Top your raw gluten-free PURPLE bread with any toppings of choice.
We ended up making a mock-PB looking spread: basically we mixed together some lucuma powder, vanilla, and yacon syrup with a splash of water and stirred. To our surprise again we had a mock-PB looking sauce that tasted yummy!
Wait! What if I do not have a dehydrator? How can I still make this bread?
We would suggest putting the bread batter on a cookie sheet and spread into a shape you would like. And place in a oven around 325 degrees for 30-40 minutes and check to see how the bread dough is doing. If it is still too soft than let it go another 15 minutes or till your bread gets to the texture you desire. **we did not make it in the oven so these are just rough thoughts on what to do
Questions please let us know! For the xylitol you may use some drops of liquid stevia or maple syrup. If you use maple syrup we will recommend using 4 tbsp chia seeds.
For those of you who do have a dehydrator and unsure of what to use it for…this is a great recipe! Enjoy!
Purple bread anyone?
We hope you enjoy this purple bread. We sure did!
Till next time
it looks pretty! I’ve been waiting for you to do something with the Macqi – what does it taste like?
Kristina, thanks! The flavor of Macqi is quite interesting, not in a bad way just different. Similar to Acai I guess. To us it was not real sweet.
Oh I’m a sucker for colored food. Once I made an omelet with red cabbage and it turned it gorgeous shades of blue and purple. I took photos of it for the blog but got too busy to post about it! Maybe I’ll do that one of these days
I love how simple this recipe is! And gorgeous. Any food that is purple, I think I can get behind
whoa that looks interesting! what does it taste like??? i’m dying to know the flavor of macqui?
thanks Melissa, Macqui has an interesting flavor, similar to Acai I guess. We did not find it to be real sweet.
This is so cool! I love colored food, but refuse to eat anything with artificial coloring in it. It’s so simple, too! If I ever get my hands on some maqui powder I’m definitely going to keep this in mind.
purple is my favorite color! and I’m sure this bread would be too. Need to try macqi.
Cute, Purple is my favorite!
Whitney
SO PRETTY! I love foods with funky colors
Like green smoothies….mmmm…..
haha same here Alex!
Wow, that bread looks so good, makes me want to have some right now! Great job, keep up the good work
This is gorgeous! I love purple bread!
RETURN OF THE PURPLE POWERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
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wow…purple bread! im so intrigued. but i have zero of the ingreds…or a dehydrator.
navitas naturals has such interesting superfoods that ive never heard of!
Thanks for sharing this recipe. I’ll soak my pumpkin seeds tonight so I can make this bread tomorrow. Luckily I have all the ingredients.
Yay!
Vera Marcia