Sunflower Seed Bread (Vegan + GF) - Rhian's Recipes (2024)

ThisSunflower Seed Bread isbeautifully soft and slightly crusty,and has a lovelytoasty flavour!It'svegan, gluten-free, no-knead,yeast-free,nut-free, free from sugar and oil-free. It's filling and nutritious, a good source of protein and fibre, delicious with sweet or savoury toppings, and perfect for toast! It's super easy to make as it comes together in one bowl, there's no proving time needed and it takes just 15 minutes to put together before baking!

I've made so many different gluten-free vegan bread recipes using different flours such as chickpea, buckwheat, almond and coconut. This Sunflower Seed Bread is great as it's nut-free but has a lovely nutty flavour.

How to make this recipe

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• Place the sunflower seeds in a food processor.

• Pulse briefly until you get a fine powder.

Tip: Be careful not to blend too much, otherwise you’ll end up making sunflower seed butter!

• Transfer the ground sunflower seeds into aglass mixing bowland mix together with all other ingredients.

Tip:Use a measuring jug tomeasure out the plant-based milk.

• Transfer the batter into a one-pound loaf tin.

Tip: Line the tin with greased baking paperto make the bread easier to remove after.

• Sprinkle over mixed seeds to decorate, if desired.

• Bake in the oven for55 minutes.

Tip:Transfer the loaf to a cooling rackto cool down completely before packing away to storebecause otherwise the steam from the warm bread will get trapped and you'll end up with soggy bread!

• Best left to cool completely before slicing.

How long does this keep for?

This bread keeps well covered in the fridge for a good few days. If not eaten on the day it's made, it's best toasted before eating.

Substitutions you can make

• You can replace theground sunflower seedswithground pumpkin seeds, ground almonds, ground walnuts orground pecan nuts.
• If you're not gluten-free, you can use plain flour instead of gluten-free flour.
• You can useany type of plant-based milk:almond milk, soy milk, rice milk, cashew milk, oat milk etc.
• You can replace the apple cider vinegar withlemon juice.

Ingredients you can add to the batter

• Mixed seeds.
• Dried fruit such asdried cranberries, chopped dried sour cherries, raisins, chopped dates, chopped dried figs etc.
• You can make it savoury by adding grated garlic andchopped herbs,choppedolives,orchoppedsun-dried tomatoes!

More gluten-free vegan bread recipes

• Gluten-Free Vegan Chickpea Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Blueberry Banana Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Irish Soda Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Almond Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Oat Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Dinner Rolls
• Gluten-Free Vegan Seeded Buckwheat Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Cornbread
• Garlic Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Oatmeal Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Oat Flour Bread
• Flaxseed Bread
• Gluten-Free Vegan Biscuits

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