Gluten-Free Potato Bread Recipe

Why This Recipe Works

The gluten-free flour blend provides plenty of structure and springiness without any gluten at all.
Allowing the dough to rise completely in the pan before baking ensures good whole structure.

Aki and Alex fromIdeas in Foodhave shown you how to make a variety of gluten-free flour blends, including thisall-purpose version, that can be substituted, gram for gram, for standard flour in any recipe. With this recipe, they show you how to use those blends to make a classic potato bread, with a tender crumb that makes it the perfect vehicle for sandwiches.

One of the biggest quirks of gluten-free baking, they point out, is the lack of oven spring in most doughs. Traditional flour-based doughs are stretchy and elastic. When you place dough into a hot oven, pockets of air and water vapor rapidly start to expand, stretching out internal bubbles and giving bread its open structure. This process relies on gluten for stretchy resilience.

Gluten-free breads, on the other hand, are far less stretchy and don't exhibit much oven spring, which means that you have to build those bubbles in from the start.

An overview photo of an unbaked loaf of bread. — Serious Eats / Aki Kamozawa

In this recipe, the dough is placed into a Pullman loaf pan, then allowed to rise almost completely before it's put in the oven. This ensures a nice, light, bubble-filled texture even without dramatic oven spring.

A closer look at a loaf of unbaked bread in a loaf pan. — Serious Eats / Aki Kamozawa

Cooked potato is the other secret ingredient. It not only lends some of its flavor to the bread, but also provides a good source of fully hydrated starch to keep the bread moist and tender as it bakes.

An overhead view of a golden-brown baked loaf of bread. — Serious Eats / Aki Kamozawa

August 2015

Active30 mins

Total7 hrs 30 mins

服务16 to 18 servings

Makes1loaf

The perfect vehicle for sandwiches

10 1/2 ounces (300g)russet potato(1 large or 2 medium), peeled, quartered, and thinly sliced
11/2 cups (337.5g)water
11/4 teaspoons (7.5g)fine sea salt
1cup (260g)whole milk
2 teaspoons (6g)instant yeast
1tablespoon (12.5g)sugar
6largeeggs
4 2/3 cups (600g)gluten-free flour blend

Put potatoes, water, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat, then turn heat down and cook potatoes until fork-tender, about 15 minutes. Transfer potatoes and their liquid to a bowl and let cool.
Add remaining 1 teaspoon salt, milk, yeast, and sugar to potatoes and stir to combine. Put potato mixture and eggs in a blender. Turn blender on low, gradually increase speed to medium-high, and purée until mixture is smooth, about 30 seconds.
Transfer potato mixture to bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment (or use a hand mixer), add flour, and mix on low until all of potato mixture has been absorbed by flour. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until dough appears smooth and elastic, about 30 seconds. Use a rubber spatula to scrape dough into a clean bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise for 2 1/2 hours, until not quite doubled.
Grease a 13- by 4- by 4-inch pain-de-mie or Pullman loaf pan and lid. Use a rubber spatula to stir dough together and then transfer it to prepared loaf pan. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise until it reaches top of pan, about 2 hours. Meanwhile, 1 hour before baking, preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
Remove plastic wrap from pan and slide lid into place. Bake bread for 45 minutes. Turn heat down to 350°F (180°C) and bake for 30 minutes more.
Turn heat down to 300°F (150°C). Remove top of pan and bake bread uncovered for 20 minutes.
Remove bread from oven and invert it onto a rack set over a baking sheet. Lift off pan and bake bread for 10 more minutes. The internal temperature should be 210° to 212°F (99° to 100°C). Turn off oven, open door, and let bread cool on rack for 30 minutes.
Remove bread from oven, transfer to a rack, and let cool to room temperature completely before cutting.

Special Equipment

13- by 4- by 4-inch pain-de-mie or Pullman loaf pan with lid,blender,stand mixer

Make Ahead and Storage

Well-wrapped, bread will keep at cool room temperature for up to a week.

Nutrition Facts(per serving)
174	Calories
2g	Fat
31g	Carbs
7g	Protein

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 16 to 18
Amount per serving
Calories	174
% Daily Value*
Total Fat2g	3%
Saturated Fat 1g	4%
Cholesterol63mg	21%
Sodium195mg	8%
Total Carbohydrate31g	11%
Dietary Fiber 1g	5%
Total Sugars 2g
Protein7g
Vitamin C 1mg	7%
Calcium 34mg	3%
Iron 2mg	11%
Potassium 173mg	4%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)