Gluten Free Chestnut Bread Recipe
Looking for cheering up the fall or just found some chestnut flour in the pantry? Let’s make a naturally gluten free chestnut bread!
Leaves are falling down, dressing the countryside with their pretty colors. Chestnut is one of the best known symbols of the season for a long time.
Conkers give their spiky forms for the scene while chestnuts contribute with their flavor, scent for this time of year. Chestnut could also be used, cooked or fried but we can work with it as chestnut flour.
This Chestnut bread should be among everybody’s fall recipe collection. Its unforgettable, exquisite and it’s a sugar free dessert recipe. The best thing in seasonal recipes that are not using the same stuff we are made to use all year around. This almost instantly makes them healthy and if we skip the sugar bit or substitute it with something else then it’s gonna be a perfect healthy sugar free recipe. Actually we could call it a gluten free banana bread or sugar free banana bread too but that wouldn’t make it a fall recipe. 🙂
Ingredients
- 3 Eggs (separated)
- 1 Ripe banana or one tablespoon of sweetener of choice
- ¼ cup / 30g Flax seed (ground)
- ⅓ cup / 70g Chestnut flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
Kitchen utensils
- 8½” x 3″ / 22cm x 7.5cm Loaf pan
How to make Chestnut bread
- Break and separate eggs.
- Put egg whites into a mixing ball and whisk until hard peaks form.
- Pour yolks into the mixing bowl slowly one by one whilst whisking vigorously.
- Peel banana and place it in a bowl then squash it with a fork.
- Measure and grind flax seed. Mix dry ingredients, flax seed flour, chestnut flour and baking powder in a medium size bowl.
- Fold dry ingredients and squashed banana alternately into the egg mixture.
- Pour batter into a loaf baking form and put it into the 350ºF / 180ºC preheated oven.
- Bake it for 45 minutes. Check it with a toothpick if it’s baked properly. (Stick toothpick into the bread if it comes out clean it is ready. If not, leave it for another 5-10 minutes. Wait at least 10 minutes before slicing it up.
Enjoy!
- Add an extra twist to it and serve it with mango ice-cream.
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Exquisite Chestnut Bread Recipe
Equipment
- 8½" x 3" / 22cm x 7.5cm Loaf pan
Ingredients
- 3 Eggs separated
- 1 Ripe banana or one tablespoon of sweetener of choice
- ¼ cup Flax seed ground
- ⅓ cup Chestnut flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
Instructions
- Break and separate eggs. Put yolks aside into a glass or cup for later.
- Put egg whites into a mixing ball and whisk until hard peaks form.
- Pour yolks into the mixing bowl slowly one by one whilst whisking vigorously.
- Peel banana and place it in a bowl then squash it with a fork.
- Measure and grind flax seed. Mix dry ingredients, flax seed flour, chestnut flour and baking powder in a medium size bowl.
- Fold dry ingredients and squashed banana alternately into the egg mixture.
- Pour batter into a loaf baking form and put it into the 350ºF / 180ºC preheated oven.
- Bake it for 45 minutes. Check it with a toothpick if it's baked properly. (Stick toothpick into the bread if it comes out clean it is ready. If not, leave it for another 5-10 minutes. Wait at least 10 minutes before slicing it up.
Notes
Nutrition (per serving)
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I want and need to try chestnut flour so badly, I love chestnuts so so so much that this is a MUST!
Hi Gigi, Yes, we love chestnuts too! I can’t wait for the winters to come and have some roasted ones from the street!
Chestnut is my favorite! This bread is awesome!
I was looking for a chestnut flour recipe to try. This looks good but I’m confused about it being labaled as low carb since chestnut is a high carb nut comparable to grain in its carb content, at least that is my understanding.
Many thanks for bringing that to our attention! Chestnut bread recipe is one of our oldest recipe and it seems badly needed an overhaul. The label ‘low carb’ merely referred to the chestnut bread not containing added refined sugar as most of the recipes did at the time. It’s been corrected.
The recipe card has also been checked and a metric switcher with serving size selector were added to it along with the macro data for 1 serving. Now you know roughly how much carbs, protein or calories are in one slice.
Thanks again!
I love this recipe! Thank you! One question, can it be doubled? Thank you, Susie
I have made this recipe four times now. It is delicious toasted and lends itself well to a dab of cream cheese and apricot jam
on occasion. Thank again, definitely a five star rating in my opinion!
Thrilled to hear you like it! x x x
It can be doubled sure but it may going to be a bit denser. The baking time may be affected slightly too but not by much.
Many thanks for your reply Edi! I will try it and see how it works. I am at higher altitude 4500 ft. Susie
Higher altitudes may affect baking times and temperatures but if you’ve pulled this off four times it will be a piece of cake 😀 Do get back to us and tell us how it has gone! x x x