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Healthy Baked Goods Recipes Made Without Gluten and Sugar

Asparagus with Grilled Lemon and Shallots

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If you love asparagus or want to make asparagus a favorite vegetable of others try this easy recipe. It is a great side dish to go with any protein or on top of pasta for vegetarian meal.

Asparagus with Grilled Lemon and Shallots

Ingredients:

  • 1 bunch fresh asparagus (if they are the fatter ones cut in half)
  • 2 lemons – thickly sliced
  • 1 medium shallot
  • 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
  • salt and pepper
  1. Heat a large cast iron skillet on high. Add lemon slices and grill 3 to 5 minutes on each side. Remove from pan and set aside.
  2. Add the olive oil to the pan, add the shallots and lightly salt and pepper. Cook over a medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove pan and set aside.
  3. Add the asparagus to the pan and cook for about 7 to 10 minutes, until they get a nice char.
  4. Place the asparagus on a serving dish, top with the shallots and squeeze the lemon on top. Garnish the plate with the cooked lemon slices.

Focaccia Bread Horseradish Roast Beef Sandwich

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Been missing tasty bread to make a great sandwich with? Hate not having a great sandwich to eat or serve as game day food? Well your wait is over as the focaccia bread flavored with horseradish and made into a sandwich with Horseradish Roast Beef Horseradish Crusted is delish.

Focaccia Bread Horseradish Roast Beef Sandwich

Ingredients for Horseradish Focaccia Bread:

  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 tablespoon Xyla or 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (about 1 1/3 packets)
  • 1 1/2 cup Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons Gold’s Horseradish
  • non stick spray
  1. Dissolve Xyla in warm water, stir in yeast and let stand until foam forms (with Xyla or honey you do not get a huge foam) about 5 minutes.
  2. While yeast is blooming in a separate bowl whisk together the flour, xanthan gum, salt.
  3. In another bowl mix the egg, olive oil, and horseradish together and then add to yeast and mix well. Add the wet mixture to the dry and combine well (it is easy to mix by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer).
  4. Spray a 9 x 9 inch pan with cooking spray, spread the dough out, cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm spot for about 20 minutes
  5. Preheat oven to 400.
  6. Bake for 25 minutes, let cool in pan.

To make the sandwich

  1. Slice the focaccia in half, your choice of a lite white cheese, a lite schmear of horseradish sauce, springs greens or lettuce, tomato slices, sliced horseradish roast beef. And since it your sandwich add what you think will be good on it.

Focaccia Bread

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This is your answer to the question “is there no tasty moist gluten free bread?”  This Focaccia bread is terrific and you can finally eat a bread that you don’t have to toast to make it edible.

This is focaccia bread that is topped with shallots…see note below

Horseradish Crusted Roast Beef

Ingredients for basic focaccia bread

  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 tablespoon Xyla or 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (about 1 1/3 packets)
  • 1 1/2 cup Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • non stick spray
  1. Dissolve Xyla / honey in the warm water, add the yeast and let sit for about 5 minutes. (Note you will not get a big foam since you are not using actual sugar)
  2. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, xanthan gum and salt.
  3. In another separate bowl mix the egg with the olive oil, add to the yeast mixture and mix well.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. It is an easy mix that can be done by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer.
  5. Spray a 9 by 9 in pan with the non stick spray, spread the dough into the pan, cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm spot for about 20 minutes.
  6. While the bread it resting preheat the oven to 400.
  7. Bake for 25 minutes, let bread cool in pan, and you are ready to serve.
  8. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. It is an easy mix that can be done by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer.

Focaccia Bread topped with sautéed shallots

  1. While the bread is in the oven baking, saute thinly sliced shallots in 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter and add to the baking bread for the last 10 minutes of it’s bake (this way the shallots are cooked but not burnt).

Focaccia Bread with fresh herbs

  1. If you have fresh herbs like, thyme, lemon-thyme, rosemary, or basil: just add two tablespoons of the herb to the dry ingredients & sprinkle some on top of the dough before baking and you will have a very herby bread.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

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I know Brussels Sprouts are usually not a favorite vegetable but let me tell you that if you roast them you and the family will love them.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Ingredients

  • Brussels sprouts – cut in half
  • olive oil
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Combine all the ingredients on a baking sheet and roast in the oven for approximate 30 minutes…..and then you are ready to serve.

Lamb Chops marinated in Rosemary and Garlic

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Easy one pan lamb chops.

Lamb Chops marinated in Rosemary and Garlic

Ingredients

  • 2 – Lamb Shoulder Blade Chops

for the marinade:

  • 4 – 5 sprigs of rosemary- removed from stems & chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves – chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

  1. Combine the rosemary, garlic, salt and peppers corns in a mortar & pestle and crush together for a few minutes. Add the mashed ingredients to a zip lock bag, add the olive oil, combine and then add the chops. Work the marinade into the chops and let sit on the counter for about an hour.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. Preheat a cast iron skillet on the stove top. Place the marinated chops into the heated skillet and brown on each side – about 4 to 5 minutes per side.
  4. Place skillet in oven to finish cooking – about 15 to 20 minutes.
  5. Remove from oven and let chops rest 5 minutes before serving.