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Grandma's 100-Year-Old Lentil Bread Recipe Without Flour or Sugar

A flourless, sugar-free lentil bread baked from soaked lentils with turmeric, coriander and psyllium, topped with sunflower and sesame seeds. Served with a fresh Greek yogurt, cucumber and dill sauce.

4.3(4 reviews)
480 min prep / 540 min total
95 kcal
5.5g protein
1 serving
Easy

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Ingredients

Ingredients updated to metric measurements
  • 250 glentils

    soaked 8 hours in 700 ml water, drained

  • 100 mlwater
  • 30 mlolive oil
  • 2 tbsprice flour
  • 1 tspturmeric
  • 1 tbspground coriander
  • 5 gbaking powder
  • 2 tbsppsyllium husk
  • salt
  • 1 tbsprice flour

    extra if dough is too liquid

  • 1 tbsplemon juice
  • sunflower seeds

    for topping

  • sesame seeds

    for topping

  • 250 gGreek yogurt

    for sauce

  • 1 piececucumber

    for sauce

  • dill

    for sauce

  • 1 tspdried garlic

    for sauce

Instructions

  1. Mix lentils with 700 ml water and soak for ; drain excess water.

  2. Add 100 ml fresh water and blend the lentils with a mixer.

  3. Add olive oil and continue blending to combine.

  4. In a bowl combine rice flour, turmeric, ground coriander, baking powder and psyllium husk.

  5. Add the dry mix to the blended lentils along with salt; stir well.

  6. If the dough is too runny, add 1 extra tablespoon of rice flour.

  7. Stir in the lemon juice.

  8. Grease a bread form with vegetable oil and pour in the dough.

  9. Sprinkle sunflower seeds and sesame seeds on top.

  10. Bake at 200 degrees C for .

  11. For the sauce, mix Greek yogurt with grated cucumber, chopped dill, salt and dried garlic; serve with the bread.

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4 reviews

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Harriet O.

The yogurt sauce is perfect. Always make double.

Dolores H.

The best bread recipe I have tried in five years. My son called it the best he has ever tasted. The yogurt sauce is extraordinary.

Cornelia S.

I am 66 years old and have lost nearly 70 pounds by changing how I eat. This bread is part of my daily routine now.

Ines R.

Good bread but the sauce was too garlicky for me.