Coconut Flour Cauliflower Bread {vegan, keto}

Quick and easy individual coconut flour cauliflower bread, made in a muffin tin! The bread is naturally vegan, grain-free, nut-free, gluten-free, and keto, plus, only 52 calories each!

Cauliflower is having a heyday, shifting shape to become a grain stand-in for rice, couscous, and pizza crusts, as well as a fine ready substitute for potatoes in salads, mashes and hashes. It’s been a favorite vegetable of mine for a long time (go-to preparation: roasted!), so it’s exciting to consider all of the new options for this winter white wonder.

Since I’ve been exploring grain-free, vegan breads these past few days, I decided to try combining cauliflower with coconut flour.

The results? A yummy, and easy-to-make mini bread: Coconut Flour Cauliflower Bread 

Ingredients for Making Coconut Flour Cauliflower Bread 

The ingredients are minimal:

• 6 ounces frozen cauliflower (1/2 of a 12-oz package)
• Plain nondairy milk 
• Flaxseed meal
• Coconut flour
• Baking powder
• salt & pepper

Coconut flour can be tricky. For example. you only use a small amount compared to grain flours and it is extremely thirsty (i.e., lots of liquid required). To make matters even more complicated, and it’s performance can vary from brand to brand. Most often, it needs to be combined with another flour, such as almond flour,, and most baking recipes for coconut flour often require multiple eggs.

Without protein and volume from eggs, coconut flour baked goods can be flat with gooey centers. The usual egg substitutes–flax, chia, applesauce–can result in epic failures when you try to substitute them 1:1 for eggs.

But hope is not lost; it springs eternal. This is as an exciting challenge to try new combinations and invent new recipes altogether! This breads are delicious proof.

Nutritional Highlights of these Humble Breads

You don’t need to be on a special diet to love these little breads. A desire for tasty savory snacks or bread options, easy ways to add more vegetables into your day,  and easy new foods that are delicious, filing, satisfying and convenient is all that is needed to give them a try.

Still, it is worth noting their virtues:

• Vegan
• Keto
• Paleo
• Grain-Free
• Gluten-Free
• Low Carb
• Low Sugar
• High Fiber
• 52 calories each

As a bonus, they also happen to be high in fiber, low in carbs, virtually sugar-free, and tally up to a mere 52 calories apiece.

But let’s get to the heart of it: the taste. These taste like a cross between a bread, soufflé, and a quiche, despite the absence of eggs. While they are great as bread, I’ve also been eating them for breakfast and lunch. It’s been a fiber-rich week :).

Tips from the Cook

• Baking Time: The baking time may sound long, but it is correct. You are baking out some of the moisture so that these will not be too moist.
• Cauliflower: I used frozen cauliflower because it has been hard to get my hands on fresh on a regular basis (it is popular, as I mentioned at the start). You can certainly steam some fresh cauliflower. The frozen is pretty handy for whipping these together quickly.
• Use Muffin Liners: Because of their texture, these breads can be tricky to remove from the pan if you simply grease or spray the cups. Use muffin liners; you’ll thank me later :).
• Coconut Flour: It’s temperamental, varying somewhat across brands. I recommend starting with 1/4 cup and adding up to 1/3 cup (about 4 teaspoons more). The batter should be about this thickness (thick and moist, but not too stiff):
  

Happy baking and eating everyone, and here’s to bread in all forms

More Cauliflower Deliciousness:

1. Almond Flour Cauliflower Popcorn {2 ingredients, Vegan, Keto, Oil-Free}
2. Chopped Radish Cauliflower Salad {easy, vegan, keto}
3. Roasted Tomato Chickpea & Cauliflower Salad {vegan, high protein}
4. Cauliflower Biscuits {4 ingredients, vegan, grain-free, oil-free}
5. Cauliflower Rice Paella {vegan, keto option}
6. Vegan Cauliflower Cheese Bites {4-ingredients, Grain-Free}
7. How to Make Cauliflower Rice {keto, vegan}
8. Jeweled Cauliflower Rice {vegan, grain-free}

Nutrition Highlights
*Very high in dietary fiber
*High in iron
*Very high in vitamin B6
*Very high in vitamin C