Paleo Lentil Flat Bread - Sundried Tomato and Garlic, vegan, yeast and gluten free!

mixed lentil bread

Makes 1 13"X11" tray, and 12 thin small slices (2 slices a serve), or you can slice it into 8 for sizeable sandwiches.
Paleo recipe, and one in which this is based on HERE.

It has 10% RDA of fibre a serve, and 25% of daily iron needs! Insane! To swap bread into this power house is an incredible swap compared to normal grain based breads, and only 160 calories for 2 small slices!

green lentil bread

Ingredients:
dry:
1c and 1/3 dry lentils (red, yellow and green work well)
2 TB Linseeds
2 TB Chia seeds
1/2 t Salt
1 tsp dried garlic (or 2 cloves fresh garlic blended with the liquids below)
2 tsp Chicken Style Stock - it's Vegan (Massel brand) can omit
1 tsp herbs or spices (I like Italian herb mix which contains onion and capsicum pieces, you can use turmeric, nutritional yeast or whatever you like!)
1t GF Baking Powder (to be added later)
1/2TB Glucomannan powder or 1 egg replacer powder, or 1t xanthan gum, or aqua faba added later. (optional but will keep bread together better).

wet:
2 Cups water
4-6 Sundried tomatoes or tsp chutney
1/4c Olives (Optional)
2 tsp Tahini (Hulled) OPTIONAL, can use any nut butter or oil for flavour or ommit
2TB Sweet baby rays hickory and brown sugar (optional, but i add this on occasion)
1/2c Notzarella/vegan cheese as topping (optional)

Herbs/seeds/vegan cheese or oil to top - optional up to your tastes. I love nigella seeds, poppy and sesame, usually I cannot decide and use them all!

red lentil bread

Method:
*Preheat fan forced oven to 170C
1 - You will need to blend the dry ingredients (using a magic bullet - capable of milling the seeds, or mill them separately first). Empty into mixing bowl.
2 - Blend Wet Ingredients until the tomatoes are diced small, Pour into bowl.
3 - Stir to incorporate, you can wait 10 minutes to let the seeds gel into the mixture, glucomannan acts on this very quickly if added. If no seeds or gumming agent was used simply wait longer for the lentil to absorb, up to an hour.
4 - Sprinkle 1t GF Baking Powder on top and quickly mix in and pour into a greased baking tray, or onto oiled baking paper. Mine end up about 5-7mm tall.
5 - OPTIONAL - drizzle 1 tb of olive oil and sesame oil, sprinkle on mixed herbs or seeds of your choosing. Even vegan cheese. Up to you! (top like a pizza, but par bake first!)
6 - Bake in an oven at 170 deg C fan forced oven for 20 minutes or until browned (depending on your preference of a dry bread or moist bread, and how thick you made it, sometimes it takes much longer)
7 - Remove from oven and cool slightly before slicing and removing with a spatula. Despite oiling it will stick a bit to the tray, I use a metal spatula to scrape it off. Worth it. Alternatively, I now use a silpat mat without oil and it never sticks! :)

red lentil bread fresh from the oven

Verdict:
Taste : Seriously, these taste damn GOOD especially for lentils- and I'm a fussy eater, and thoroughly enjoyed the flavoursome bread! So up your protein with this paleo tasty bread! No surprise though that it does have lentil qualities- but it does NOT taste too healthy, weird, and beany. It is literally a pleasant taste with a definite oriental flavour that is PLEASANT!
Texture : While this thing doesn't hold shape too well once it gets thin- and does break apart once contorted around fluffy lettuce weirdness, it does have a great eating experience, adding a great flavour to any savoury sandwich.
Serving as an open sandwich and eating with cutlery negates any brittleness you may have.

Mushroom gravy, carrots, smoked oysters, avocado, lettuce. Yummo!

HALF RECIPE - if you still don't trust me and just want to test it.
2/3 cup dry red/green lentils
1 Tbsp linseed meal
1 TB chia
1 cup water  *NOTE try to add 1t egg replacer with this or 1t xanthan to strengthen, as it does have a tendancy to fall apart when thinly baked as I like it!
salt
1 tsp chicken stock
1/2 t bicarb
1-2 cloves garlic (dried works too)
2 sundried tomatoes
1 tsp tahini/nut butter/oil for flavour - optional
Oil/herbs/seeds to top - optional

Ideas:
Jaffles? Will it work???