What I love about rye bread are the seeds and the sourdough. Well now you can do that without rye flour, without the gluten with our REAL Caraway Seed Rye-Style Bread recipe.

1 1/2 cups sorghum flour
1 1/2 cups garbanzo flour
1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup potato starch
1 cup tapioca flour
4 teaspoons xanthan gum
1/4 cup ground flax seeds
OPTIONAL: 3/4 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons sugar (evaporated cane juice)
2 packages active dry yeast
1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
5 cups warm water
3 Tablespoons caraway seeds

Preheat oven to 200^oF.

In a large bowl, whisk together flours, potato starch, tapioca, flax seed and xanthan gum, and salt.

In a medium size bowl mix the sugar with the yeast and pour in about 1 cup of the water. The water should be lukewarm, not hot, or the yeast won’t work. Beat the mixture with a fork and let sit for about 5 minutes. The top should foam. If it doesn’t the yeast is not good and the dough won’t rise. Mix in vinegar. Pour the yeast mixture over the dry ingredients and incorporate with a fork whisk. Mix in another cup of water. Continue adding water until the mixture has the consistency of a very thick cake batter.

Pour batter into two greased loaf pans, filling each pan about half-way. Place on the top of the oven and cover with a towel. I have a gas oven with the burners raised above the top surface of the oven so that the pans are not directly touching the heat – they are just in a warm environment. If you have a flat surface cook top you many want to place the pans on a rack so they are not in direct contact with the heat. Allow the batter to rise and double in size – rising above the top of the pans. This can take from 30 to 60 minutes.

Increase oven temperature to 400^oF and bake loaves for The bread will bake for 60 minutes total. After 10 minutes (for a soft crust) and up to 30 minutes (for a harder crust), remove loaves from the oven and cover each with aluminum foil. If the bread is not covered the crust will get very dark and hard. Return to oven and continue baking. Turn off heat. Let bread sit in oven for 30 minutes to keep the top from sinking.