Genuis Gluten Free Bread

Have you tried this amazing new gf bread yet? It's a lovely gf loaf from genuis, and it's the best gf bread I have used so far. Gluten free bread is often more like cake, and if you try to do normal bready things with it, like make a sandwich, its texture is wrong and you are chewing it forever. Not Genius bread! I got some of the brown and white, it comes whole and you slice yourself.

The first thing I tried making with it was toast, slicing yourself means you can have nice white door-wedges of toast. A couple of thick slices, two mins in the toaster and the ultimate test; loaded with just butter. The result? The best toast I have had for ages, yummy caramelised outside, no crumbling, no overcooked crust and a lovely fluffy middle. Taste is so close to bread you don't need any jam.

So what about a sarni? Someone on the I'm Gluten Free Baby facebook group suggested a chicken salad sarni, so I bunged one together with the brown genius bread, just buttering the bread and including a bit of mayo. Perfect, no hours of chewing and the bread held together, in fact I think it held together enough for a packed lunch with no soggy or crumbly disasters. The loaves are mini ones, so you need 4 slices for a decent round of sarnis for lunch.

My next test was a bit more complicated. Have you ever got gluten free bread wet? It just seems to dissolve into mush, even if its been toasted. So I made some french onion soup and parmesan crutons. Chopped some white genuis bread into cubes, coated with a little oilve oil, and then rolled and pressed into finely grated parmesan cheese. Spread on a baking tray and bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 mins, turning over half way.

Did it hold up in the soup? Sure it did! the bottom absorbed soup but retained its breadyness, the tops remained crunchy. Brilliant!

I also froze some of the bread, and managed to slice and toast from frozen with no problems, though I think I would slice it first before freezing in the future. It defrosts pretty fast once in slices which is handy, with no change to its quality.

The bread itself tastes very bready, and has a sweet maltly flavour I like very much, but some people may not be keen on the sweetness. The brown bread is certainly the malty-er of the two.

You can pick this bread up at Tescos, Asda, Whole Foods and Waitrose. I would like Sainsburys to get in on the act as that's where I do my online shop every week! At Tescos a loaf is £2.49, expensive, as with most gf products. You can get it on prescription too now, how exciting!