Textured Hemp Seed Bread

Written By Leanne de Groot

Ideal in your Luteal phase;

- Scrumptious for breakfast or lunch with tahini sauce, sauerkraut, and fresh micro greens

- Protein for Hormone balance and satiety

- Psyllium for hormonal clearance and liver detox

Ingredients:

• 145 g (1 c) hemp seeds

• 170g (1 c) organic golden or brown flax seeds

• 250ml (1 c) filtered hot water

• 40g (1/2 c) organic psyllium husks

• 3 tbsp organic coconut flour, plus extra for dusting

• 8 free-range organic eggs

• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (organic with the mother)

• 1 tsp light olive oil (Organic Cold Pressed)

• 1 tsp bicarb soda

• 1 1/2 tsp fine sea salt

Instructions:

1. Place hemp seeds and flaxseeds in a bowl, pour in the hot water and stir well. Allow to soak for about an hour at room temperature, so the seeds will expand and absorb the water.

2. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees (150 fan forced) and grease a 20cm x 10cm loaf tin. Line the base and sides with baking paper, cutting into the corners to fit.

3. Transfer the soaked seed mixture to the bowl of a food processor and process for two minutes, scraping down the sides regularly to ensure the mix blends evenly, until a wet dough forms. Next, add the psyllium husks and coconut flour and blend until well combined. Add the eggs, vinegar, olive oil, bicarbonate of soda, and salt and blend for about 1 minute to form a thick dough.

4. Place the dough in the prepared tin and pat it down. Bake for 1 1/2 hours, rotating the tin halfway through so that the loaf cooks evenly. To check if the bread is cooked; insert a skewer through the centre. If it comes out

clean, it’s ready. Allow the bread to cool a little in the tin before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Cut into thick slices to serve.

Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to five days or sliced in the freezer for up to three months.

Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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