[This Oat Flour Bread post is sponsored by FREEE! All opinions are my own.]
This Oat Flour Bread is crusty on the outside, soft on the inside and has a lovely nutty flavour! It's filling and nutritious, and is a good source of protein and fibre. There's no kneading or proving time required and it comes together in one bowl. It's vegan, gluten-free, yeast-free, free from sugar, oil-free and nut-free optional. Perfect for making toast for breakfast!
Oats are naturally gluten-free, but they are usually processed using the same facilities as other grains including wheat, rye and barley, which contain gluten. So, most oats you buy will contain gluten through cross-contamination.
So, if you have coeliac disease, a gluten allergy or are severely gluten intolerant, you will have to make sure you buy gluten-free certified oats.
You can buy gluten-free certified oats in most supermarkets, local health stores or online.
Although you can buy oat flour, I much prefer to make my own as it's much cheaper and it's so easy to make.
1. Place the oats in a food processor.
2. Whizz until you get a fine powder.
I personally love these FREEE Gluten-Free Organic Porridge Oats.
I'm super excited to be making a recipe using a FREEE product as the brand has been a lifesaver for me as they also make my favourite gluten-free flours and pastas!
As well as the gluten-free oats, FREEE also have an entire range of breakfast cereals, including Cereal Flakes, Fibre Flakes, Corn Flakes and Chocolate Stars, which are all organic, gluten-free and vegan certified. Finding a quick breakfast that suits your dietary requirements is now as easy as one, two, FREEE!
All of the products are made in dedicated production facilities, which are gluten-free certified, which is great as you don't have to worry about cross-contamination!
How to make this recipe
Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the full recipe.
- Transfer the oat flour into a glass mixing bowl and mix together with all the other ingredients.
Tip: Use a measuring jug to measure out the water.
- Transfer the batter into a one-pound loaf tin.
Tip: Line the tin with greased baking paper to make the bread easier to remove after.
- Sprinkle over mixed seeds and more oats to decorate, if desired.
- Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
Tip: Transfer the loaf to a cooling rack to cool down completely before packing away to store because 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 Oat Flour Bread 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 the ground almonds (almond meal) with ground sunflower seeds, ground walnuts, ground pumpkin seeds or ground pecan nuts.
- For a nut-free version, replace the ground almonds with ground sunflower seeds or ground pumpkin seeds.
- You can replace the apple cider vinegar with lemon juice.
- If you want to use oat flour instead of making your own, you can use the 300 g (2 ½ cups) oat flour.
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
- Gluten-Free Vegan Bread Rolls
- Gluten-Free Vegan Oatmeal Bread
- Gluten-Free Vegan Biscuits
- Flaxseed Bread
- Quinoa Bread
- or browse the whole collection!
If you try out this recipe or anything else from my blog, I’d really love to hear any feedback! Please give it a rating, leave a comment, or tag a photo @rhiansrecipes #rhiansrecipes on Instagram! Thank you.
Watch how to make this recipe
Oat Flour Bread (Vegan + Gluten-Free)
Ingredients
- 300 g (3 cups) Freee Gluten-Free Organic Porridge Oats
- 300 g (2 ½ cups) ground almonds (almond meal) *
- 4 teaspoons baking powder (ensure gluten-free if necessary)
- ¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- ¼ teaspoon salt to taste
- 475 ml (2 cups) water
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (ensure gluten-free if necessary)
To decorate (optional):
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Place the oats in a food processor and whizz until you get a fine powder.
- Transfer into a large bowl.
- Add the ground almonds, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt and mix well.
- Add the water and vinegar and mix again.
- Transfer the mixture to a loaf tin (I used a one-pound loaf tin) lined with greased baking paper.
- Scatter over seeds and oats to decorate, if desired.
- Bake in the oven for around 30-40 minutes, until risen and an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack before putting away to store.
- Keeps well in the fridge for up to a few days.
Video
Notes
- If you want to use oat flour instead of making your own, you can use the 300 g (2 ½ cups) oat flour.Â
- You can replace the ground almonds (almond meal) with ground sunflower seeds, ground walnuts, ground pumpkin seeds or ground pecan nuts.
- For a nut-free version, replace the ground almonds with ground sunflower seeds or ground pumpkin seeds.
- You can replace the apple cider vinegar with lemon juice.
- If you’ve kept your bread in the oven for the right amount of time and it’s still not done in the centre and the outside is becoming hard/burnt, then I would recommend covering it with a piece of baking paper to prevent the outside from becoming burnt, and and continuing to bake it until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Make sure to leave the bread to cool down completely on a cooling rack before packing it away to store because otherwise the steam from the warm bread will get trapped and you’ll end up with soggy bread, which nobody wants!
- It 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.
- If you’re freezing it, you can just slice it up and put the whole thing in the freezer. Then when you want to eat it you can just pop the slices of bread in the toaster straight from frozen.
Thank you very much to FREEE for sponsoring this post, and thank you for supporting the brands that support Rhian’s Recipes!
Disclosure: This posts contains affiliate links to Amazon. If you purchase any of these products, a small percentage will come to me with no extra cost to you! This income will go towards the running of this blog – thank you.
Nik
Hi, I’m looking forward to trying this! Do you know if it works in a bread maker? 🙊
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much! Hm I'm not sure sorry as I haven't tried it. But would love to hear how you get on if you do!!
Candace
Really, really liked it. thanks!
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much!
Darcy
Could I use buckwheat flour instead of the almond meal
Rhian Williams
That should work, but I can't guarantee results as I haven't tested it that way. You can replace the almond meal with ground walnuts or ground sunflower seeds no problem though!
Dan
There is a potential discrepancy in the recipe:
Under Ingredients we find
300 g (3 cups) Freee Gluten-Free Organic Porridge Oats
Under Notes we find:
If you want to use oat flour instead of making your own, can use the 300 g (2 1/2 cups) oat flour.
In both cases we find that 300 g oat flour = 3 cups Freee, and 2 1/2 cups oat flour.
Is it correct that 300 g can equal both 3 cups and 2 1/2 cups?
Rhian Williams
Hi - the difference is because cups are measured based on volume rather than weight, and oats have more volume than oat flour. So the weight is the same, but oats take up more space than oat flour. Hope that helps!
Tara
Hi Rhian, I’m a big fan and have made a heap of your recipes with fabulous results. Today I tried this oat bread and it was a failure for me. It looks lovely and the flavour is great but I cannot cut the bread without it crumbling like dust. If I get a small section of unbroken bread, when I butter it it then crumbles away... where could I have gone wrong? I cooked the bread on a rack out of the tin, as suggested. I’d love to be able to remedy the problem as we have a yeast intolerant family member and I’m always looking for GF, yeast free bread. Any ideas what I may have done wrong?
Rhian Williams
Hi - I'm so sorry to hear that and thank you for your feedback. Did you make any substitutions? What sort of consistency was the batter before baking? Using either slightly less or slightly more liquid next time would help it hold together more I think - it just depends whether your batter was very liquidy or very dry.