Here is beautiful and simple recipe from Billabong chef Simon Favorito for anyone wanting to create a rustic gluten-free loaf full of flavour and whole food goodness. This is lovely hearty bread alternative to serve with breakfast, afternoon snack or as a side with soup or stews. We personally like it with some fresh avocado with olive oil, zesty lemon and fresh herbs and sprouts.

Enjoy!

(Gluten free, vegan)

SKILL LEVEL: 2/5

Ingredients:

• 3 cups x quinoa (soak for 4 hrs, rinsed and strained)
• 1 cup x water (spring or filtered)
• 1 cup x pumpkin (cut into 1 cm pieces)
• 1 cup x parsley (roughly chopped)
• 1/4 cup x extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup x almond meal
• 1Tb each x sesame, cumin, fennel seeds (lightly toasted)
• 2 Tb x nutritional yeast flakes
• 1 1/2 tsp x sea salt
• 1 tsp x baking powder
• pumpkin fresh seeds from pumpkin (to sprinkle of top)

Utensils & equipment:

• baking tin lined w’ baking paper or non-stick surface
• blender / bar mix

Instructions:

1. Lightly toast sesame & spices in pan for 3-5 minutes until golden and aromatic..
2. Preheat oven to 200c.:
3. Blend quinoa, water, olive oil, baking powder, nutritional Yeast and almond meal into a paste.
4. Mix in all ingredients together (except pumpkin seeds)
5. Add mix to baking tin & sprinkle pumpkin seeds on top.
6. Bake for about 1 hr until firm to touch or knife comes out dry when poked into the centre.(this may take an extra 15-20 minutes depending on your oven)
7. Leave to cool slightly before slicing and enjoy fresh from the oven or serve toasted with your favourites.

This will last for about 5 days kept in an airtight container in the fridge.

Video Recipe

About The Chef:

Simon Favorito comes from a lineage of wholefood chefs & has spent over half his life helping people to discover the magic of wholefood medicine through the culinary arts as a chef, a natural health practitioner, coach & teacher.

Simon offers conscious event catering, educational courses and personalized coaching that combine natural health principles, wholistic nutritional, modern psychology, traditional & contemporary food philosophy to help individuals create their own life changing food culture.

For information on Wholefoods medicine, recipes, workshops and courses, be sure to visit Simons Facebook page: Your Conscious Kitchen. or his Instagram Page

You can find Si cooking at Billabong Retreat every other weekend and most Mondays and Tuesdays.